She is currently head of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture and the City (GTAS) at the Technical University Braunschweig in Germany.
[1][2] Before this, she was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, England and, in 2014/15, Professor for History and Theory of the City at HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany.
[3] She has a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde (2006), her thesis title being "Mechanisms of the themed environment".
[4] The British Council's "Creative Economy" website states that: Her work addresses the mechanisms behind the production of space with particular focus on spatial praxis.
This focus is manifested through visual and word-based critiques against normative intellectual and pedagogical tendencies and through direct spatial interventions, which sometimes take activist dimensions.