Daniel Zwangsleitner is an architect, urban designer and Associate Professor of Multi-Disciplinary Design at the College of Architecture + Planning at the University of Utah.

He defines his work as strategic practice, which encompasses various outputs including studios, seminars, publications, exhibitions and interventions. His approach integrates collective and individual agency, blending spatial practice with research, teaching, and political engagement. In light of current environmental, geopolitical, and social challenges, he aims to reconcile urbanism, design and architecture with civic engagement. He works with students, researchers, and community partners to develop design practices and strategies that promote social-ecological transformation towards a more collaborative, just, and sustainable way of living

He advocates for a teaching methodology rooted in research-driven design, asserting that educators and universities have a responsibility to actively address the challenges of our world. This involves empowering young practitioners and researchers with the essential critical skills and design tools they need to meet the challenges of today and the future.

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From 2018 to 2024, he served as Senior Researcher at the Professorship for Urban Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Prior to that, he held positions at the Institute for Regional Development at EURAC Bolzano and at OTH Regensburg, where he taught theory and history of architecture and photography of urban landscapes. He earned his Ph.D. from the Politecnico di Torino in 2018 with a dissertation on the social and political conditions and actors of subsidized housing in Austria. He studied architecture, urban planning and photography in Innsbruck, Vienna and Turin, and obtained his degree in architecture from TU Vienna in 2010.

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