Kristina Knauf, from TU Dresden, has gained over 15 years of experience in the Netherlands prior to her role as Managing Director of LAND Germany GmbH. In recent years, in her capacity as an Associate, she co-founded the internal R&D Sustainability Team at MVRDV and contributed to the establishment of the Urban Studio. Before this, she was employed at POSAD in The Hague, having worked from 2006 to 2016 as an urban planner and project manager at the KCAP office in Rotterdam. Her career as an urban planner is distinguished by numerous projects and publications, among them the ‘Sea Level Rise Catalogue’, developed in 2022 as part of the Vancouver Sea2City project and exhibited at the Shenzhen Biennale, among others. In the ‘Resilient by Design’ project and the ‘Too Little + Too Much’ publication, she developed, with a multidisciplinary team during 2017-2018, a strategy for the regional resilience of the San Francisco Bay Area. This strategy merges integral regional design principles with specific local interventions, inspired by the ideas and co-creation of local communities in South San Francisco.
