Dr. Friederike Landau-Donnelly [she, they] is an intersectional political theorist, urban sociologist, and cultural geographer. She is interested in political theories of conflict and the ways in which public spaces are contested. Through empirical and artistic research in places like Vancouver, Berlin, Leipzig, Linz, Vienna, and Malmö, Friederike theorizes different modalities of conflict in cultural policy and governance arrangements amongst commissioned and self-instructed artists, artist collectives, policymakers, and local communities. Friederike has developed and taught undergraduate, graduate, and PhD-level courses in a variety of disciplines such as human geography, spatial planning, arts and design, political theory and sociology. As co-editor of publications such as Handbuch Kulturpolitik (Handbook of Cultural Policy, Springer, 2023), Konfliktuelle Kulturpolitik (Conflictual Cultural Policy, Springer, 2023), and [Un]Grounding – Post-Foundational Geographies (transcript, 2021), Friederike has contributed to create an understanding of the conflictual underpinnings of the production of space and culture. Friederike publishes poetry as #PoeticAcademic: https://friederikelandau.com/poeticacademic/