Dr. Karsten Berr

Karsten Berr studied landscape conservation at the University of Osnabrück, and philosophy and sociology at the Distance Learning University of Hagen, where he gained his doctorate with a thesis on philosophy in 2008. After appointments in Oldenburg, Hagen and Vechta, he headed a German Research Foundation project from 2012‒2017 on the theory of landscape and landscape architecture at the Technical University of Dresden, Brandenburg University of Technology (Cottbus), and the University of Vechta. In May 2018 he took up an appointment at the University of Tübingen’s School of Geo-Sciences. His research focuses on the inter- and transdisciplinary theory, practice and ethics of landscape and architecture, landscape conflicts, the philosophy and aesthetics of art, nature and landscape, cultural theory, and anthropology.