Benjamin Pohl was academic member of staff in the research and teaching programme Urban Design and active in the project »University of the Neighbourhoods« (UoN). He is an industrial mechanic by training and studied Design, Photography and Film in Berlin. Since 2003 he was a freelance in image design. In the context of UD and UoN he was concerned with performative videographic methods. His research interests are the qualitative study of locally embedded economic actor networks, their specific production of locality and the transformation of working worlds in a post-industrial society. He graduated in 2012 in Urban Design with a master thesis on spatial and economic practices of gastronomic entrepreneurs on the Elbe islands together with his colleague Hans Vollmer. He lives and works between Berlin, Basel and Hamburg and accompanies Urban Design as a visiting lecturer.