In seiner Funktionalität auf die Lehre in gestalterischen Studiengängen zugeschnitten... Schnittstelle für die moderne Lehre
In seiner Funktionalität auf die Lehre in gestalterischen Studiengängen zugeschnitten... Schnittstelle für die moderne Lehre
Raumstrategien
Modul IV: Praxisseminar: Herstellung von Veröffentlichungsmedien für das Theorie-Praxis- Projekt IIRaumstrategien
Modul I: Praxisseminar: Performative Rauminterpretationen/Interventionen
The course focuses on listening as a transformative capacity and experience. As adrienne maree brown comments, “In my experience, healing happens when a place of trauma or pain is given full attention, really listened to.” Underpinning the course is a concern to elaborate listening methodologies and knowledges, understanding how it lends to a range of creative and critical work. This includes considering key questions, such as: In what ways does listening influence understandings of self and other, bodies and things? If listening acts as a work of attention, how might it contribute to (re)shaping attention economies as well as attending to social repair? Is there a connection between listening and planetarity, and how might we elaborate this connection in terms of nurturing kinships across species? Following these lines of inquiry, listening is emphasized as a means of shifting from production to maintenance, from action to reception, enabling ways of connecting …
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Block Seminar - Dates:
22.10.2025
05.11.2025 *11am
26.11.2025
03.12.2025
10.12.2025
28.01.2026
04.02.2026
Mangroves and estuaries are ecologically fascinating spaces. But mangroves and estuaries are also sociopolitically and historically charged spaces. As such, mangroves and estuaries can be studies in the context of Spatial Strategies in relation to the plants, animals and other beings of which they are constituted, but also in relation to their olfactory or sonic dispositions.
In this class, we will study mangroves and estuaries as philosophical and political concepts whose complexities have found echoes in scientific texts, in philosophical treaties, in manifestos, in novels or in musical compositions.
Ecologically speaking, the moment when two waterways meet each other, like a river meeting the sea, is a moment of negotiation of physical and chemical asymmetries that creates an extra-ordinary ecosystem flourishing with crabs, crocodiles, fish, migratory birds, mangroves, oysters, phytoplankton snails, seagrass, sea turtles, zooplankton and even humans and more. The particularity of an …
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“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must never be afraid to do what he must choose.” Langston Hughes
Freedom is a word to which we have attached a lot of prefabricated meanings, a concept we think we know so well that we might consider it empty. It has been hijacked by the political right for the permission to do and say as one pleases, on the left, people don’t seem to believe in it anymore or trust it. The writer Maggy Nelson describes her interest in ongoing ‘practices of freedom’ by which we negotiate our interrelation with - indeed, our inseparability from - others, with all the care and constraint that relation entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.
A work of art, simultaneously, speaks and interacts to a public, even more so when placed directly into a public space. Thinking …
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Modul II: Praxisseminar: Materialität und Medialität
The seminar for the 2025/26 winter semester, entitled “I still have a suitcase in Berlin,” focuses on the object that was celebrated in the song of the same name by Marlene Dietrich in 1951.
The song was composed by Bully Buhlan, a German jazz and pop singer, pianist, pop composer, and actor who enjoyed great success, especially in the post-war period and early 1950s.
With the song “Ich habe noch einen Koffer in Berlin,” Marlene Dietrich not only wanted to express her attachment to her hometown, but also – after World War II – to win back the hearts of (West) Germans. In some circles there, she was considered a “traitor to her country” because she had become a US citizen and taken a stand against the Nazi regime. Her West German comeback tour in 1960 was partly a fiasco.
The suitcase here symbolises memories and experiences from the past. The desire to …
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Intending the environment as a complex and contested habitat, in which natural, built and digital elements coexist and interact, the seminar will examine the visible and invisible wounds in these interrelated ecosystems. Within this framework, it will analyze the role and strategies played by other-than-humans as memory agents that actively transform, erase, or preserve structural traumas.
By definition, a wound is a break in the continuity of a bodily tissue caused by any action of external agency. Making an organism or a body vulnerable, penetrable, and thus potentially exposed to contamination, contagion, and corruption. Therefore, wounds turn into accessible territories, and places of passage. Furthermore, these traumas are not to be intended as “post” violence, rather persistent processes that develop in different ways and through various forms.
If, as geographer Jessica Dubow claims, the environment absorbs the events played out on its surface, and in doing so, it buries the marks of …
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Don’t let the cosmic metaphor fool you: this seminar is resolutely down to earth.
This semester, we continue to develop an understanding of Berlin as a postcolonial city- one where the legacies of empire remain deeply inscribed in both spatial form and institutional practice. Building on this perspective, we will engage with current debates around gentrification, examining the mechanisms that sustain dominant power structures and their claims over the right to define the city.
Cities are formed by design of centrality, out of architectures invested in validating the idea of the centrality of power, capital, knowledge, and culture. The spaces, boundaries and visual representations defined by these architectures are designed to determine not only what matters, but also who matters. Control is exerted over what histories are remembered, and how they are told. Yet, centuries of resistance, infiltration, and subversion have generated rich repertoires of refusal and re-making within urban infrastructures.
At the …
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Modul III: Theorieseminar: Performativer Raum
Pluriverso: un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos
Movimiento Zapatista
In the face of the multipronged planetary crisis, what kind of spaces exhibitions can provide, co-create or be part of? In this course, we will be drawn by pressing questions of our context, and examine what can we (un)learn by the intersection of exhibitions, radical pedagogies and pluriversal art histories. Will discuss theories, concepts, realities and reflect on cases across cultures and worlds.
We will start by examining the exhibition medium against the backdrop of colonial modernity, discussing the objectification of culture and the “ocularcentrism” (Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui), while reflecting on strategies of transformation. How do exhibitions perform? How do the spatial strategies of exhibitions produce and shape categories and value systems? What subjects do they aim to produce? To what extent do exhibitions transform or consolidate the existing order? What pedagogies are embodied in space? How can spatial strategies lead to …