Marko Marskamp is a researcher, writer and self-professed planologist. He is interested in urban planning as a particular form of thinking and knowing, writing and saying, handling and doing. From here he revisits how urban development is regulated and can be effectively negotiated.
The title planologist is derived from the Dutch 'planologie.' Its originally Greek ending of '-logia' is associated with forms of interpretation, articulation and reflection. In English, on the other hand, the '-ing' ending of planning relates to a continuous activity.
As a planologist Marko's research focuses on the framing and mobilization of urban planning and real estate development in complex and dynamic networks of humans and 'things.' His perspective is inspired by science and technology studies (STS) and writings around actor-network theory (ANT) in particular.
Marko holds a Master's degree in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences, with a focus on Real Estate and Housing, from Delft University of Technology. He also completed a Erasmus Mundus Master's degree in Urban Studies at the Free University of Brussels.
Currently Marko is a PhD candidate in Urban Geography at the University of Lausanne and a visiting researcher at Simon Fraser University. Prior to coming to Canada, he was a research assistant at the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich and a teaching assistant in Geography at the University of Lausanne. His research is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
His co-edited book Relational Planning: Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices was recently published in 2017 by Palgrave, and seeks to bear STS insights and methods on issues of urban planning and development.
