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Susann Ahn, is professor, licensed landscape architect, urban planner, and mediator.
Together with Thomas E. Hauck, she holds a joint Professorship in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning at TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, Austria).She received her diploma in landscape architecture and landscape planning from the Technical University of Munich, and her PhD from ETH Zurich. She conducted as project leader international landscape architecture and planning projects in various landscape architecture offices. Based on her practical planning and design experience, she started teaching design studios for bachelor and master students as a research associate at the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Space of Professor Regine Keller at TU Munich. From 2013 to 2019 she was research associate at the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Professor Christophe Girot at ETH Zurich. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she founded her office AHN Landscape Mediation in 2013. Since then, she has been working at the nexus of landscape architecture and communication. Besides landscape architecture projects in various scales, she is specialized in participation, co-creation and mediation methods as well as conflict resolution in public space to foster integrated planning and design processes.