Bettina Nagler (M.A.)

Bettina Nagler (she/her) works as a researcher, writer, and educator across design, feminist theory, and political economy. Her research explores how architecture can act as a medium for empowerment, with a focus on feminist movements of the 1980s and ’90s and their links to money, value, protest, and the making of space.

Trained in architecture in Leipzig and San Sebastián (B.A. 2019) and holding a M.A. in Design Studies from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design (2024), she has taught at Burg Giebichenstein and Kunsthochschule Kassel (2024–2025).

Her editorial research on feminist architectural history was supported by a fellowship in the Central Institute for Art History in Munich (2024) and by a graduate fellowship from the State of Saxony-Anhalt (2024–2025). Her master thesis was awarded the Theodor Fischer Special Prize and the Berlin State Monument Office’s Studienpreis. She has contributed to Volume magazine, Oase Journal, Building Diversity (ed.), Horizonte, and more. Bettina is co-founder of Freibank, a curatorial and research collective shown at the VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender (Valencia), (Re)searching Urbanity (Floating University Berlin), and other venues.

Currently, she co-leads the research project Building Together & Otherwise at ARCHITECTURE CITIES ECONOMY, continuing to develop these themes.