Lena Radau

I am a sociologist at LMU Munich. My research focuses on cooperative and collective housing and on how social alternatives emerge and can be put into practice. In my teaching, I develop playful and inclusive formats.
Possible talk topics:
- Housing cooperatives as a real utopia? What collective housing projects reveal about the transformation of housing
- Cooperatives, Expropriation, Common Ownership: (How) Can Housing Be Socialized?
- Erik Olin Wright's real utopias: an approach to thinking about social alternatives
- Playing utopia: how a board game helps people imagine a different society
- Inclusive university teaching: creative, self-selected formats that make participation easier not only for neurodivergent students

Lena Radau studied Romance Studies and Sociology in Düsseldorf, Cádiz and Bielefeld. She is now a sociologist at LMU Munich, where she is writing her PhD thesis on housing cooperatives as real utopias. Her work focuses on the transformation of housing and on the possibility of social alternatives. In her teaching, she develops playful and inclusive formats, such as a seminar in which students use a board game to design a different society.