Susanne Hauser has been a professor of art and cultural history in the architecture programme at Berlin University of the Arts since 2005. Her research and teaching focusses on the history and theory of the built environment with a special interest in urban development and architectural design processes. Currently she is conducting research on the concepts and roles of ‚sites‘ in urban transformation processes reacting to climate change. As a member of the International Research Centre Intervening Arts (CRC 1512) she explores the properties and options of architecture as intervening art.