Daniel Zwangsleitner

Daniel studied architecture, spatial planning, and photography in Innsbruck, Vienna, and Turin. In 2010 he graduated in architecture from the TU Vienna.

Since 2010 he works as freelance architect, researcher, photographer.

In 2018, he completed his Ph.D. at the Politecnico di Torino on the social and political conditions and actors of subsidized housing in Styria.

Previous academic positions include the Institute for Regional Development at EURAC Bolzano and the OTH Regensburg. There, Daniel has been a lecturer on the theory and history of architecture as well as architectural photography since 2013.

Since 2018 he is a post-doc at the professorship for Urban Design at TUM.

Daniel's professional self-image is shaped by a perceived ongoing state of societal crisis, as well as by the insight that the multitude of challenges cannot be addressed and overcome simply and certainly not in isolation from one another. Rather, systemic change is necessary, which entails a transformation of our entire collective action and thinking.

As a researcher, Daniel can draw on a broad repertoire of predominantly qualitative methods, which is updated and further developed through regular exchange with neighboring disciplines.

His teaching approach is informed by questioning traditional approaches to planning and understanding the city not only as a physical terrain but also as a social and political terrain of our communal life. A significant concern of his is the creation of new narratives as an impetus and catalyst for change and transformation.