By engaging critically in environmental and urban histories, theories and politics, cue explores the multiple potentialities of architectural and urban design beyond building, questioning the agencies of spatial knowledge production and representation as worldmaking.
Through field-based interdisciplinary interactions with Earth and Life sciences, stakeholders and citizens, as well as cross-scalar mapping, transects and prospective scenarios, cue envisiones territorial structures and novel typologies of open space as ecological habitats and interfaces of multiple metabolic fluxes.
Including diverse German, French, Swiss, British, Scandinavian and Latin-American backgrounds, the cue team is currently focusing on the climate-oriented transition challenges of European urban ecosystems, such as carbon sequestration in post-glacial soils of the densely urbanised Swiss Plateau, and countering desertification trends in sandy meadows of Berlins Urstromtal’s terrain vagues, while advancing doctoral research to polar and tropical regions of the Earth.
If you are interested in research and design collaborations, thesis supervision, or more information about us, please reach out via chair@cue.tu-berlin.de
Prof. Dr. Antoine VialleHead of Chair
vialle@tu-berlin.de
Antoine (b. 1983, France) is licensed architect (2007), urbanist and doctor in science (2021). Following his training at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), Antoine Vialle has worked in several architecture firms. Since 2011, he has been teaching (Scientific Assistant and Lecturer) in various schools and conducted a PhD on Swiss urban soils at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)—Laboratory of Urbanism. In 2010-2011, he was fellow of the French Academy in Rome—Villa Medici. In 2019, he was Doctoral Visiting Student at the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism in Cambridge (MA). In 2021, Antoine Vialle was postdoctoral researcher and project manager at the EPFL Habitat Research center (HRC). In 2022-2023, he has been leading a research project on the topic of urban soils and carbon sequestration in urban requalification projects at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) —Competence Centre in Sustainability. Funded by the Soil Section of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and by the Canton of Vaud (DGTL), this interdisciplinary project was developed in collaboration with the UNIL Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, the ETHZ Department of Environmental Systems Science. Within transdisciplinary teams, Antoine Vialle has developed awarded design projects such as Lausanne Jardin 2019 and Europan 16 (Carouge). He was also assistant curator for the Lausanne Jardins festival 2024. Since October 2023, Antoine Vialle is Tenure Track Professor for climate-oriented urban design at the Technische Universität Berlin, Fakultät VI - Planen Bauen Umwelt, Institut für Architektur, where he leads cue, the new Chair for Transitioning Urban Ecosystems.
Alexander PappeOffice manager
alexander.pappe@tu-berlin.de
Alexander has been working as an office manager for cue since 2025. He studied for a Master of Arts in Literature – Art – Culture (with a focus on German literature) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Since 2024, Alexander has been working on a dissertation on intergenerational conflicts in contemporary East German literature.
Aniella Sophie GoldingerResearch and teaching associate, PhD candidate
goldinger@tu-berlin.de
Aniella (b. 1994, Denmark) is a landscape architect and spatial researcher, based in Berlin. Her research is centered around oceanic hinterlands and the extended urban fabric of the polar territories and works to render visible the interplay between structures of power, ecologies, and more-than-human stakeholders across critical urban theory, mapping and science and technology studies. She is a doctoral research and teaching associate at cue, Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin and a member of the Architectural Association's Terrain Lab.
She holds a Master’s degree in landscape architecture, specializing in Arctic and sub-Arctic territories, from the Oslo School of Architecture and the Arctic University of Norway, where her thesis delved into the material agency and spatio-legality of sea ice in Arctic marine spatial planning, and a BA in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture.
Michel Zisman Zalis Research and teaching associate, PhD candidate
zalis@tu-berlin.de
Michel (b. 1994, Brazil) is an architect and urban and territorial researcher based in Berlin. Since 2024, he has been part of cue – Chair for Transitioning Urban Ecosystems at the Institute of Architecture, Technical University of Berlin, where he teaches design studios on climate-oriented urban design and works on his doctoral research at the intersection of urban and territorial studies, critical design theory, and critical conservation studies, investigating the hypothesis of conservation as design from the relationship between urbanization processes and the spatialization of nature conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. He holds a MAS in Urban and Territorial Design from ETH Zurich/EPF Lausanne and a professional degree in Architecture and Urbanism from PUC-Rio, with an academic exchange at FAU Lisboa. Michel has talked about his work at the University of São Paulo, TU Berlin, PUC-Rio, DIA Hochschule Dessau, and IUAV University of Venice, and has published in Art of the Working Class, transmagazine, and Prumo Magazine. In recent years, he has collaborated on research projects such as the Planetability Working Group, Atlas do Chão, and ENTRE, as well as with architecture practices including AIA Estudio and Zebulun Arquitetura.
Anne Sophie WilhelmTutor
wilhelm@tu-berlin.de
Anne (b. 1997, Germany) is working as a student assistant for cue since June 2024. She completed her Bachelor studies at Hochschule München and is currently enrolled in the M.Sc. Architecture program at TU Berlin.
Anne is now working on her thesis about operational landscape in Berlin-Brandenburg and is interested in small scale to territorial scale architecture and urbanism as well as in policy writing.
Marina Resende SantosTutor Projektwerkstatt
m.resende.santos@campus.tu-berlin.de
Tanja BeierTutor Projektwerkstatt
t.beier@campus.tu-berlin.de
Tanja Beier (b. 1997, Germany) is a student of the M.Sc. Urban Design program at TU Berlin. Her background is in cultural studies and urban landscape research.
Holding an M.A. in Sociology (Urban Studies) from Goldsmiths University of London, her research explores the intricate relationship between urban spaces and social dynamics, with a particular focus on public spaces, place-making, and community engagement.
Tanja joined cue as a tutor for the Projektwerkstatt Cooperative Research Group to explore the potentials of cooperative forms of working and living. Simultaneously, she is working on her thesis on transitional zones in the fragmented city.
Alexandre BossardVisiting researcher / PhD candidate
alexandre.bossard@campus.tu-berlin.de
Alexandre Bossard, geographer (Université de Lausanne) and urbanist (Université Libre de Bruxelles), focuses his research on urban soil unsealing, using cartography as a key analytical tool. He is currently pursuing a PhD at UCLouvain, with a visiting stay at TU Berlin, and contributes to the Archisols research project (ULB, Innoviris). Previously, he worked on LOGOS-RES (social housing renovation in Brussels), Labo XX+I (the 20th-century belt around Brussels), INEG (environmental inequalities), and 3Dcit-is (environmental impact assessment). Alexandre has also led workshops and assisted students with mapping projects at ULB and UCLouvain.
Marta MagnaguagnoVisiting researcher / PhD candidate
mmagnaguagno1@iuav.it
Marta Magnaguagno is an architect based in northern Italy, currently pursuing a PhD in Urbanism at Iuav University of Venice. Her ongoing research focuses on Spatial Justice and the Urban Project, deepening the relationship between the ambiguities of economic power and space production while focusing on the project of space and its material dimensions of inclusion or exclusion.
After completing her studies at Iuav University of Venice, she collaborated with architecture offices on public space projects while working as a freelance and as teaching assistant at Iuav, in Venice.
Past team members
Nick Roberts-Robbins, Projektwerkstatt
Sarah Möller, Tutor
Aline Schulz, Office Manager
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