Cities and Territories as Living Laboratories of Contemporary Urban Change.
Field-based learning formats exploring urban transformation through applied
research and interdisciplinary exchange.
Through in-situ exploration, participants gain grounded insight into urban processes, the interplay of stakeholders, and long-term impact. Developed in dialogue with architects, urbanists, academics and local actors, this approach reads cities and metropolitan areas through architecture, culture, and everyday spaces (Zwischenräume) — as evolving laboratories of change.
Carina Kurta
I connect knowledge and people.
I am an urban researcher and cultural practitioner specializing in understanding city context and transformation, based in France since 2012.
Since more than a decade, I have developed and facilitated field-based research and study formats across Europe and the Mediterranean. Designing these programmes is comparable to curating an exhibition, in close dialogue with local actors.
This work has led to expertise in architectural and urban development in France, including an architectural guidebook on Marseille (2023), and long-term engagement with cultural policy and strategies in Europe.
Alongside this practice-based work, my academic background in art history, museology, and European studies informs a critical and contextual reading of urban fabric.
I work fluently in German (mother tongue), French, and English.
Based in Paris, I am currently developing an open platform for collaboration, research, and field-based formats, engaging with cities as laboratories of urban change.
This website builds on the expertise developed through CaP.CULT since 2013. It marks a new, independent chapter in the practice, extending earlier work while opening space for new formats, partnerships, and directions.
