Olaf Mumm

Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute for Sustainable Urbanism, Faculty Member

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Olaf Mumm is senior researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism at TU Braunschweig. He is an architect and urban planner. Olaf studied architecture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. Building on his many years of work at the Urban INDEX Institute in Darmstadt, he is involved in research and teaching on a wide range of sustainable planning aspects. Olaf has over ten years of experience at the interface between urban planning and design in praxis and research. He has been involved in inter- and transdisciplinary as well as design-based research projects focusing on urban phenomenons, structures and typologies as well as the development of methods and instruments for indicator based urban design and planning. From 2009 to 2014, he worked as a project architect at the Urban INDEX Institute in Darmstadt, where he was involved in a variety of planning tasks in the field of urban development applying innovative integrated into planning processes as well as in the development of an indicator system for sustainable urban development. Prior to that, Olaf Mumm has served as Urban Consultant for the Urban Development Unit of the Swiss Development Cooperation SDC in South-East Asia (based in Hanoi). In 2014 Olaf joined the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and is working on the collaborative research projects such as EAST-CITIES, METAPOLIS, Data4UrbanMobility, OPEN CITY, ISUrF-Hub and exploring in the field of Digital Urbanism at ISU SPACE LAB.

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CITY AS DATA: URBAN ANALYTICS AS CONTEMPORARY FORM OF RHYTHMANALYSIS

by Katja Knecht, Olaf Mumm, and Vanessa Miriam Carlow

AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 32 Representing Pasts -Visioning Futures, 2023

Cities and urban regions are complex and dynamic systems, constantly in flux. The attempt to repr... more Cities and urban regions are complex and dynamic systems, constantly in flux. The attempt to represent material and immaterial interrelations and activities in the context of the built environment in its spatio-temporal ebb and flow is in traditional media such as film always a collage of unique, concrete moments captured at a specific time and place. With the rise of pervasive computing, digital and information technology, however, the capturing and representation of urban flows and rhythms have taken an abstract and quantitative turn. Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile computing devices allow to collect a continuous flow of data on spatial practices and their rhythms, whose analysis provides not only new representations of urban space but also a deeper understanding of it. This paper juxtaposes Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis and urban analytics by comparing respective approaches, methods and tools. It explores data-driven and -informed representations of the city and the rhythms and flows of people, things and the built environment within it alongside research activities at the Spatial Analytics and Crossdisciplinary Experimentation (SpACE) Lab at the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU). The paper concludes by critically discussing the short-comings and opportunities of urban analytics as contemporary form of Rhythmanalysis as well as by laying out a trajectory for future research.

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