Who we are
The ARL works at the interface between science, planning practice and politics. Its research and work covers issues of spatial development and spatial planning – fields in which many key social challenges are concentrated in a concrete and conflictual manner. Addressing these issues requires interdisciplinary cooperation and reflective exchange between scientific analysis and planning and political practice.
In doing so, the ARL combines two institutional roles that give it a special set of tasks: as a social research infrastructure of the Leibniz Association, the ARL provides permanent structures, procedures and formats that enable cooperative work across disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
As a scientific academy with elected members, the ARL is also a self-organised, professionally diverse network that develops original knowledge on issues of spatial development, planning and policy through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperation, strengthens scientific reflection and addresses socially relevant challenges from different perspectives.
