DI Alexander Wandl

Alexander Wandl is a PhD candidate at the chair of Spatial Planning and Research at the department of Urbanism. He started his doctoral research in October 2010 under the supervision of prof. Vincent Nadin, prof. Wil Zonneveld and dr. Remon Rooij. His research projects concentrates on planning in territories-in-between. Which he defines as areas which blend urban and rural features but cannot be explained by the intensification of urban uses in the rural.
He also holds a position as guest lecturer at the department of urbanism and teaches students of the European postgraduate master (EMU) in planning and design support tools.

Research

• 2010- ongoing: Editorial Assistant of Planning Practice &Research (PP&R)-PP&R is published by Routledge and has established itself as the source for information on current research in planning practice over the last 25 years.
• 2009 - 2010 Researcher - Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy- Department of Urbanism at TU Delft, NL Member of the TU Delft Research team for the EU Framework 7 project RUFUS.  RUFUS deals with the implication and (non)integration of the EU common agricultural policy with other policy fields, concerning rural development.
• 08/2010 -02/2011: Member of the organizing committee of the AESOP Young Academics Network Meeting 2011 – Learning Across Cultures and Disciplines – 16-18 February 2011 – TU Delft; http://www.ya2011.net/
• 2001 - 2002: Südwind: a non-profit NGO engaged in information and educational work in the field of international development (www.suedwind-agentur.at) Developing and designing the exhibition “Climate – Awareness in Change”

Teaching

• ongoing: Docent at Faculty of Architecture TU Delft: Planning and design support tools for postgraduate students (EMU) (in cooperation with Dr Akkelies van Nes).
• 2006: Teaching assistant at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna; Institute of Landscape Planning: Studio landscape planning and fieldwork, for bachelor students

Professional

• Project leading landscape planner at LACON – technical office for landscape planning and consulting - 1080 Wien - Lederergasse 22/8 –
• Freelance work and competitions with special focus on sustainable urban development, social innovation and participation in cooperation with Birgit Hausleitner.
• forumL: The Austrian association of landscape planning alumni’s and students Wiedner Hauptstraße 54/12 -1040 Vienna – Austria; www.foruml.at Public relations and documentation of the event “moveout-landscape“.

regional planning and design, policy analysis, institutional analysis, dispersed spatial development, GIS based spatial analyses and modelling,

2011

• Wandl A. (2011) Developing a Framework to compare the performance of Territories-in-between across Europe: Defining a set of sustainability indicators. In The Next Urban Question: Themes, Approaches, Tools; Proceeding of the VI International PhD Seminar on Urbanism and Urbanisation.
• Wandl A. (2011) Territories In-Between’ and Spatial Policy Integration: The cases of South-Holland and the Tyrol, Proceeding of the 5th AESOP Young Academics Network Meeting 2011 

2010

• Van Nes A., Wandl A., Nadin V. Van Kloosteren K. (2010, July) Policy Integration and Multifunctionality in Rural Development: a comparison of Kop van Noord-Holland and Somerset, at the 24th AESOP Annual Conference: space is luxury, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland
• Wandl A. (2010, June) Permeability in ‘TERRITORIES IN-BETWEEN’, proceeding of Public Life in the In-Between-City, International Conference, Haifa, Israel.
• A. van Nes, W. Tan, T. Hodgson, A. Wandl (2010, March) INTEGRATING GIS AND SPACE SYNTAX IN STRATEGIC PLANNING EDUCATION, presented at INTED2010 (International Technology, Education and Development Conference), Valencia, Spain.

2009

• Hausleitner, B., Wandl, A. (2009) Le GrandPari(s) - Nachlese zur „Consultation international sur l’avenir de la metropole parisienne“, in: Zoll+, österreichische Schriftenreihe für Landschaft und Freiraum, Ausgabe 15/2009:warten, 41-46

2011

• Shortlisted for the ‘Early Career Competition’ of the 9th European Week of Regions and Cities organised by DG for Regional Policy of and the Regional Studies Association (RSA).

2009

• Exhibition : Le Grand Pari – Exposition des resultats de la consultation international sur l’avenir de la metropole Parisienne; Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine/Galerie du Musée, Paris, 2009
• Special issue amc Le Grand Pari – consultation international sur l`avenir de la metropole parisienne, amc – le moniteur architecture, Group Moniteur, Paris, 2009

< 2008

• The project ‘Die Garage’, an alternative neighbourhood centre for the Nordwestbahnhof-area in Vienna, was presented at the exhibition „Service Bauten Wien – eine Ausstellung zum städtischen Nutzbau“ at the „Künstlerhaus Wien“ as an outstanding example for the reuse of public infrastructural buildings
•  Recognition award: Concept competition ‘Kinderfreibad Hofferplatz 2002’: Competition announced by the city of Vienna for the conversion of an open air bath for children, with the special focus on social innovation in dense urban areas