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Darinka Czishke

Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology at Delft University of Technology

About me

Dr. Darinka Czischke is an Associate Professor in Housing and Social Sustainability at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. In 2014 Dr. Czischke was awarded the Delft Technology Fellowship to develop her research on Collaborative Housing. She is the founder of the Co-Lab Research group at the TU Delft and co-founder of the working group ‘Collaborative Housing’ at the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR). Previously, she worked as Director of World Habitat (formerly Building and Social Housing Foundation, BSHF); Research Director of the European Social Housing Observatory at CECODHAS Housing Europe; and as Research Associate at the LSE Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively about social, affordable, and collaborative housing in international comparative perspective. She is the leader of Project Together!, a cross-sector initiative focused on realizing the potential of collaborative housing forms in the Netherlands and internationally.