Team
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Leibenath
Department of Landscape Planning and Communication
- Telephone
- +49 561 804-3635
- m.leibenath[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
- Location
- Gottschalkstraße 26
34127 Kassel
- Room
- Gottschalk 26, Raum 2103
- Consultation Hours
By arrangement
Secretariat: Opening hours and contact
Habilitation
2015 habilitation (post-doctoral qualifiation) at Technische Universität Berlin; Title of the cumulative habilitation thesis (in German): Diskursive Konstruktion von Landschaften in Windenergiedebatten
Since 2022: Chair of the Doctoral Committee
Since 2021: Elected member of the faculty council
2022 - 2024: Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
Appointment committees:
- 2023 - 2024: Open space planning, University of Kassel (Chair of the appointment committee)
- 2023 - 2024 Environmental Governance, TU Berlin (deputy member)
Since 2020
Professor and Head of the Department of Landscape Planning and Communication at the University of Kassel
2017-2019
Private lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, Department of Landscape Planning and Landscape Development
2015
Awarded the teaching qualification (habilitation) for the subject of landscape development by the Faculty VI - Planning Building Environment of the Technical University of Berlin
2000-2020
Research associate and Project Leader at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden
2000-2014
Lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden
2000
Doctorate at the Institute for Landscape Development at the Technical University of Berlin
1997-1999
Doctoral student at the Technical University of Berlin with a doctoral scholarship from the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
1994-1996
Worked as a landscape planner in private planning offices
1988-1994
Studied landscape conservation at the Technical University of Munich/Weihenstephan with a 2-semester guest study program at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1987-1988
Military service
1985-1987
Completed training as a gardener in the Department of Horticulture and Landscaping
ORCiD-ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1384-1285
- Elected member of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Co-founder and one of two spokespersons of the Landscape Research Working Group
- ARL-Forum Mitte-Südwest
- Landscape Research Group (LRG)
- Alumni Club Landscape TU Munich
- Federal Association for Professional Nature Conservation (BBN), Landscape Planning Working Group
- Network 'Real-world laboratories of sustainability'
Complete list of publications on Google Scholar
Nature conservation in times of socio-ecological transformation: Driving force or driven party?
Video recording of a lecture and a panel discussion at the ANL Bayern event "Climate Landscape Energy: What can nature conservation contribute to change?"; recorded at the Literaturhaus München on 10.10.2023
Kassel Climate Protection Council: Acceptance, communication, participation and education
(together with Dr. Sabine Säck-da Silva); podcast by Scientists for Future Kassel; recorded on 07.05.2022
2022 | Further development of municipal landscape planning in Bavaria: Results of a survey of municipal actors | Meeting of the working group landscape planning in the BBN (= Federal Association of Professional Nature Conservation), 09.12.2022 (online) |
2022 | Transformative landscape and regional development using the example of biosphere reserve regions | 9th Workshop of the Working Group Landscape Research on "Landscapes for Future? Landscapes and socio-ecological transformations", 15.09.2022, Kassel, Germany. |
2022 | Landscapes for Future - where change can be experienced and future is shaped: Introduction to the workshop theme and overview of the program. | 9th Workshop of the Working Group on Landscape Research on the topic "Landscapes for Future? Landscapes and social-ecological transformations", 14.09.2022, Kassel |
2022 | Between Technologies of Power and Technologies of the Self: Subjectivizations of Planners in the Context of Wind Energy. | University of Kassel and ARL Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association, Workshop "'The Best Job You Can Have': Professional self-perceptions of planners against the background of contradictory demands", 23.06.2022 (online). |
2022 | Social science perspectives on planning and decision-making processes in the field of landscapes, spatial development and nature conservation | University of Kassel, Research Network 'Environmental Planning and Landscape Management' (ULM), Workshop "Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning - Current Projects from the Research Workshop ULM", 20.06.2022, Kassel |
2022 | Possibilities to improve landscape planning in Bavarian municipalities: results of a target group survey. | Digital symposium of the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL) on "Landscape Planning in Bavaria: Roadmap for the Future", 05.04.2022 (online) |
2021 | Planners under pressure: Transformations, wind energy and populism | University of Freiburg, Colloquium of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, 27.07.2021 (online) |
2021 | Thinking landscapes politically | Lecture series "Fusion" at the University of Kassel, 07.07.2021, Kassel (online) |
2021 | Social-ecological transformation - how do we manage it? | German Nature Conservation Day, 31.05.2021, Wiesbaden (online) |
2020 | Nature conservation, economy and social-ecological transformations: Introduction to the workshop topic | Workshop "Nature conservation in times of socio-ecological transformations: Driver or Driven?", 11.06.2020, Dresden (online). |
2019 | Ecological Networks, Spatial Planning and Transboundary Cooperation. | Seminar on the occasion of the visit of a delegation from Seoul, South Korea, at the IÖR, 21.10.2019, Dresden |
2019 | Subjectification and technologies of the self - key concepts of a poststructuralist planning research critical of power and domination. | German Congress of Geography, 29.09.2019, Kiel |
2019 | Landscapes of the privileged: landscape development, lifestyles and postcolonialism in a globalized world | German Congress of Geography, 29.09.2019, Kiel |
2019 | Governing with 'Ecosystem Services: Shifts in problematizations and rationalities of governance in German nature conservation and landscape management policies | DFG Workshop, 09/25/2019, Kiel, Germany. |
2019 | How planners* are made: Subjectivizations of planners* in the context of regional planning and wind energy in Germany. | Workshop of the DFG, 25.09.2019, Kiel |
2019 | Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services and their discontents: A review of conceptual expansions, revisions and alternatives. | Joint workshop of the German Academy for Regional Studies and the Working Group on Landscape Research, 23.09.2019, Kiel |
2019 | Sustainability transitions and the subjectivities of planners in Germany: Caught between bureaucracy and politics? | AESOP annual congress, 11.07.2019, Venice |
2019 | Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services and their discontents: A review of conceptual expansions, revisions and alternatives | AESOP annual congress, 10.07.2019, Venice |
2019 | Sustainable discord? Professional identities of regional planners* against the backdrop of post-growth and transformation imperatives | ARL congress, 27.06.2019, Kassel, Germany |
2018 | "Post...what?" - Thematic introduction | IOER workshop with external guests: "Postfundamentalist, discourse-theoretical and discourse-analytical research approaches", 07.12.2018, Dresden |
2018 | Subjectivizations of regional planners* in the context of wind energy use: research approach and first results of the DFG project "How planners* are made". | IÖR workshop with external guests: "Postfundamentalist, discourse-theoretical and discourse-analytical research approaches", 07.12.2018, Dresden |
2018 | "My job is simply the best you could have." Articulations of self, politics and planning by spatial planners in Germany. | AESOP annual congress, 12.07.2018, Gothenburg |
2018 | The ESS concept: A catalyst for revising national biodiversity policies? | International workshop on Ocean Ecosystem Services, 04.07.2018, BfN - INA Vilm |
2018 | Landscape planning - a 'theater'? Reflections on landscapes, planning and performance | 6th Workshop of the Working Group on Landscape Research, 19.09.2018, Hamburg. |
2018 | How planner(s) identities are made: A poststructuralist perspective on the identities of regional planners in the context of the energy transition | 4th Dortmund Conference on Spatial and Planning Research, track "The "great transformation" in the mirror of planning theory", 05.02.2018, Dortmund, Germany. |
2017 | Landscape planning - a political "theater"? Reflections on planning, politics and performance | Workshop "Landscape planning in suburban space", 07.11.2017, BfN - INA Insel Vilm |
2017 | "Natural Capital Germany - TEEB DE" and the neoliberalization of nature conservation policy. | 5th Workshop of the Working Group Landscape Research, 22.09.2017, Odernheim. |
2017 | Renewable energy management and landscape planning | Seminar on the occasion of the visit of a delegation from Nagoya, Japan, led by Prof. Miyawaki, at IÖR, 29.08.2017, Dresden |
2017 | Ecosystem services and neoliberal governmentality - German style. | 12th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis, 05.07.2017, Leicester |
2017 | Ecosystem services and neoliberal governmentality - German style (... and introducing the IOER) | Lunch Seminar at Wageningen University and Research, 26.06.2017, Wageningen |
2017 | Nature as capital, ecosystems as performers: is nature conservation in Germany being neo-liberalized? | Long Night of the Sciences at the IOER, 16.06.2017, Dresden |
2017 | Perspectives of the cultural landscape in rural areas | Symposium of the LfULG "Rural reorganization in the cultural landscape", 16.05. 2017, Thum (Erzgebirge). |
2016 | "We say no!" - Citizen protests in the energy transition. | Conference of the Young Forum of the ARL, 06.10.2016, Leipzig |
2016 | Signs of life from the jungle of epistemology, methodology and empirical material. | 4th Workshop of the "Arbeitskreis Landschaftsforschung", 22.09.2016, Hamburg. |
2016 | Wind energy: changing landscapes, changing planners' identities. | 27th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landsape (PECSRL), 05.09.2016, Innsbruck |
2016 | Us, and them: Lines of conflict, identities, and socially constructed spaces in the context of siting decisions for wind energy developments | UFZ Energy Days, 23.03.2016, Leipzig |
2015 | Of 'beautiful valuable areas', 'proper planning', and 'habituation': landscape concepts and argumentation patterns in supra-local wind energy discourses. | Habilitation lecture at the TU Berlin, Faculty VI Planning | Building | Environment, 14.10.2015, Berlin |
2015 | Spatial and environmental policies under the influence of ecosystem services discourses: a governmentality theory perspective. | German Congress of Geography, 02.10.2015, Berlin |
2015 | Understanding "Landscape Governance": the Case of Wind Energy Landscapes in Germany. | European Conference of the Landscape Research Group "Energy Landscapes: Perception, Planning, Participation and Power", 17.09.2015, Dresden |
2015 | Thematic Introduction | European Conference of the Landscape Research Group "Energy Landscapes: Perception, Planning, Participation and Power", 16.09.2015, Dresden |
2015 | Spatial planning in the field of tension between juridification and citizen protest: The example of "wind energy" in the planning region Oberes Elbtal/ Osterzgebirge. | DFG workshop "Architecture and Planning Ethics" at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, 06.07.2015, Cottbus |
2015 | Does our beautiful cultural landscape become sparsely populated? - How landscapes are "made" in conflicts over wind turbines. | Long Night of the Sciences 2015, 03.07.2015, Dresden |
2015 | Just a talking store? - Informal participatory spatial planning for implementing state wind energy targets in Germany. | Paper Workshop of the Leibniz Research Network "Energiewende", 19.06.2015, Berlin |
2014 | Social construction of contrasting landscapes in wind energy policy debates. | Colloquium of the Institute of Geography at the University of Hamburg, 11.12.2014. |
2014 | Landscape assessment in the field of tension between expert knowledge, politics and power. | 12th EIA Congress, 29.09.2014, Bad Honnef. |
2014 | Landscape governance through ecosystem services? | 3rd Workshop of the Landscape Planning Working Group, 18.09.2014, Hamburg. |
2014 | Subjectivities, power and energy landscapes with an eye to German energy politics | 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL), 09.09.2014, Gothenburg. |
2014 | Contested wind energy developments, competing landscape discourses: Political constructions of landscapes in the wake of Germany's energy transition | 9th International Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis, 04.07.2014, Wageningen |
2014 | Spatial governance of wind energy use in the field of tension between governance, governance and governmentality. | Workshop of the Leibniz Research Network "Energiewende", 24.06.2014, Berlin |