Julian Petrin
Hamburg
Julian Petrin is an urbanist and author based in Hamburg. He is working in the fields of participation and large scale urban design in different local contexts.
In 1998 he founded his office urbanista, specialized on strategig planning and communication. In 2009 he founded the participartory think tank Nexthamburg. With Nexthamburg, Petrin has created a comprehensiv toolset for urbanistic crowdsourcing.
Petrin is member of the german academy of urban design and planning and convent member at the German Foundation for Building Culture. For his work at the intersection of urban design and participation he has recieved several awards.