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Kristina Ulm

Kristina Ulm

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Built Environment

Email: k.ulm@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: David Sanderson, Alec Thornton, Oona Morrow, Evelyne de Leeuw

Kristina Ulm bridges academia and practice. She worked as an urban designer and planner in multicultural and interdisciplinary teams in Australia, Germany, and China and taught at the University of Sydney. Her professional experience ranges from small scale streetscape design to city-wide masterplans.

Kristina holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She is passionate about resilient cities for human and planetary health.

A Systems Approach to Governance of Public Urban Gardening - This PhD research examines urban gardening in publicly accessible spaces, for example along streets, footpaths, or in public squares. How is this community-based urban greening being implemented and managed? A participatory systems approach is used to explore these complex governance processes in the case of Greater Sydney, Australia and Southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This study aims to assist policymakers and activists to collaboratively create greener and healthier public spaces. To find out more go to Urban gardening research.
  • Ulm, K., Ayllon M.J.Z. (2021, December 21). Veggies in verges: A policy inventory for footpath food gardens across Greater Sydney (Australia). Conference extended abstract on ‘State of Australasian Cities Conferences | APO’ DOI: 10.25916/py5p-n685 Veggies in verges: a policy inventory for footpath food gardens across Greater Sydney
  • Ulm, K. Urban Food Gardens. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2020; pp 1–14. 
  • Morris, A., Moustafa, A. A., Ulm, K., Frydecka, D., Piotrowski, P., & Misiak, B. (2021). 6—Urbanicity and familial liability interact and influence auditory verbal hallucinations in first-episode schizophrenia patients. In A. A. Moustafa (Ed.), Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia (pp. 115–125). Academic Press. 
  • Ulm, K. (2021). Veggies on verges - systemic solutions beyond net zero. In New Planner, Journal of the New South Wales planning profession; Planning Institute of Australia

Conference presentations

  • Ulm, K. (2021) ‘Veggies in verges: A policy inventory for footpath food gardens across Greater Sydney’, presented online at 10th State of Australasian Cities National Conference 2021, Melbourne, Australia 01 December – 03 December 2021
  • Ulm, K. (2022) ‘A participatory systems approach to governance of urban food gardening’, presented online at IUHPE 2022 – 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Montreal, Canada, 15th May – 19th May 2022
  • Ulm, K. (2022) ‘Guerrilla food gardening: Do Greater Sydney local governments embrace or reject this social innovation?’, presented online at IUHPE 2022 – 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Montreal, Canada, 15th May – 19th May 2022
  • Ulm, K. (2022) ‘Governance of Guerilla Gardening – A case of public food gardens in Australia’, presented online at 5th World Planning School Congress and 16th Asian Planning School Association Congress, Bali, Indonesia, 29th August – 2nd September 2022
  • Ulm, K. (2023) ‘Governance of Guerrilla Gardening – Policies on Public Gardening in Australia’, presented online at 6th International Conference on Public Policy, International Public Policy Association, Toronto, Canada 27th August – 29th June 2023
  • Ulm, K. (2023) ‘A Systems Approach to Governance of Urban Gardening – Policies on Public Gardens in Sydney’, presented at State of Australasian Cities Conference 2023, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 06 December – 08 December 2023