Céline Baumann is awarded a visiting professorship as part of the Division Natural and Built Environment of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

She is one of four visiting professors of the Wüstenrot Foundation who, from the winter semester 2021/22 to the summer semester 2023, will extend the array of courses offered in the master’s degree in architecture for one semester with relevant and responsible contributions to the major societal challenges for building in the present and the future.

They will address issues ranging from climate change and its ecological and socio-economic consequences for the built environment, the energy transition with regard to the renovation and building culture, the scarcity of resources and circular economy, the digitization and its opportunities for new construction production, as well as questions regarding the rapid global urbanization, the advancing demographic and its effects on the planning of new living environments and spaces.