Zita Seichter

Office hours (in person or via Zoom) on appointment only via e-mail.

• Spatial future imaginaries
• Regressive territorializations
• Racism, (post-)migration, and the city
• (Urban) planning and politics
• Digitalization and the city

Zita Seichter is an urban researcher working at the intersection of social and cultural geography and urban planning. After studying urbanism at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, she gained practical experience at Urbanizers, an urban planning office in Berlin, before completing her master’s degree in human geography at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research interests include spatial future imaginaries, regressive territorializations – especially in relation to racism and (post)migration – and the interplay between urban planning and politics. In her PhD dissertation, Zita examines regressive imaginaries of the urban and analyses how urban planning, as a continuously territorializing practice, engages with them. She has been a member of the ‘Urban Future Making’ RTG since 2025. Previously, she worked as a lecturer and researcher in the ‘Culture-Digitalization-Metropolis’ programme at HafenCity University Hamburg. Additionaly, she is a member of the DFG research network "TERRA-R".

• Since 2025: Research Associate, Professorship Sociology of Security and Resilience at University of Hamburg
• Since 2025: Fellow of the Research Training Group „Urban Future Making: Professional agency across time and scale“ at HafenCity University Hamburg
• 2023-2025: Reserach Associate, Professorship of Cultural and Spatial Theory at HafenCity University Hamburg
• 2021-2023: Student Assistant, Professorship of  Cultural and Social Geography at Humboldt-Universität Berlin 
• 2019-2023: MA „Urban Geographies - Human Geography“, Humboldt-University Berlin
• 2013-2018: BSc „Urban Studies“, Bauhaus-University Weimar

• Ein Blick in die Verwaltung: Planerisches Handeln im Kontext regressiver Zukunftsvorstellungen. Talk at the conference “Konflikt – Raum – Emotion: Lokale Konflikte verstehen und bearbeiten”, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, 27 February 2026.
• Zu Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten: Zwischen Räumen des Alltags, rassistischer Gewalt und TikTok. Talk at the Institute Colloquium “Krisen und Faschisierung”, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, 24 November 2025.
• Rethinking Far-Right Territorialisation. In collaboration with Valentin Domann (HU Berlin) and Jan Hutta (University of Hamburg), Think & Drink Colloquium, Georg Simmel Center, Humboldt University of Berlin, 3 November 2025.
• Das Ende rechter Räume. Zu Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten. Talk by invitation of the Norbert Elias Center and the Department of Integrative Geography, Europa-Universität Flensburg, 9 September 2025.
• Das Ende rechter Räume. Zu Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten. Book presentation and discussion as part of the “Right to the city” Forum 2025, Offener Prozess – Documentation Center on the NSU Complex, Chemnitz, 21 June 2025.
• Zwischen rassistischen Vorstellungen, rechter Gewalt und Alltag. In collaboration with Monisha Moreau, Omeima Garci, Oliver Menk, and Sam Schulz, Book presentation and discussion in Wilhelmsburg, Infoladen Wilhelmsburg, 12 June 2025.
• Brücken bauen, Grenzen sprengen: Geographie als Gemeinschaftsprojekt. Presentation of the authors’ collective Terra-R, Day of Geography, Humboldt University of Berlin, 27 May 2025.
• Was und wo sind rechte Territorialisierungen in Hamburg? Book presentation and talk at the radio show Concrete Cracks, in collaboration with Monika Streule, FSK Radio (Freies Sender Kombinat), Hamburg, 23 March 2025.
• Doing ordinary spaces. Practicing regressive urban futures through TikTok. Talk at the workshop “Räumliche Dynamiken der Regression” organized by the authors’ collective Terra-R, Leipzig, 13 March 2025.
• Doing ordinary spaces. Practicing regressive urban futures through TikTok. Conference “The Far Right between Institutions and Civil Society”, Center for Civil Society Research, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, 24 October 2024.
• Zukunft Jetzt – Mit geografischen Imaginationen verschiedene Zukunftsvorstellungen verstehen. In collaboration with Hannah Müller, Conference “Neue Kulturgeographie,” 25 May 2024.