Mühldorf 2053 – Futures for the town on the Inn

What could the future spatial development of Mühldorf am Inn look like? Students at the Technical University of Munich spent a semester examining the next 30 years of the district town. Find out more about the background to the course here.

It’s not just in our September 2023 issue that we make space for student projects. Students also present their own work here on our website. You can find all the projects on our “Studies” topic page – and the September issue is available in our store.

Twenty students on the Master of Urbanism and Master of Architecture courses at the Technical University of Munich developed a spatial development strategy for the town of Mühldorf am Inn that looks 30 years into the future. The project at the Chair of Spatial Development took place in the winter semester 2022/23. For one semester, five teams worked intensively on the interdisciplinary, urbanistic project. Based on an excursion, spatial-morphological analyses and a discussion of future trends and their interactions with the city, “alternative futures” were ultimately created. Behind each of these is a spatial action strategy. As a sequence of different measures by certain actors and at certain points in time, this shows a path for the future development of the district town of Mühldorf am Inn.

At the final event on site, the five teams presented their results to Mayor Michael Hetzl and City Planning Officer Birgit Weichselgartner as well as Professor Alain Thierstein and his team. The students also discussed their analyses and proposed measures. The different teams focused on different topics. How can urban quality be created through redensification and new mobility infrastructures? How can the landscape and surrounding areas serve as a testing ground and backbone for resource-conserving and cycle-oriented economic activity? How can inner city development contribute to climate adaptation and at the same time to a strong green structure outside the inner city areas? What role does education for young and old play in the development of the city, its mobility and its labor market? How can Mühldorf’s urban and street spaces make a greater contribution to social interaction and the health of Mühldorf’s citizens?

You can read about the students’ answers to these questions in the individual project presentations:

• “We are Mühldorf” by Chenxuan Ren, Jana Liszewski, Jakob Pesendorfer and Nicola Pfennich
• “InnLand uses UmLand” by Amelina Brandes, Mine Büyükişcan, Lisa Kuchenreuther and Paulina Schroeder
• “Zam wachsen Mühldorf” by Johannes David, Christine Geelhaar, Charlotte Schöffend and Maciej Witwicki
• “wissenschafft…” by Jana Alina Oelze, Julia Carstens, Markus Kurz and Mudar Alsaid
• “Mühldorfit – for the future” by Luisa Herklotz, Sofía Martín Díez, Larisa Pavliuk and Marcel Thielitz