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
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Modul IV: Praxisseminar: Herstellung von Veröffentlichungsmedien für das Theorie-Praxis- Projekt IIRaumstrategien
Modul I: Praxisseminar: Performative Rauminterpretationen/Interventionen
Sound is often what transports us to alternative states; it is embedded in the ecstatic arts, figuring in experiences of musical rapture, radical dreaming, shamanic healing, social worlding. It can also be deeply harmful, instrumentalized in systems of control, where sound is weaponized and the source of trauma. Sound is an energy that passes across bodies and things, shivering material forms with vibrational currents and resonant sympathies, and it engenders feelings of connection, deepening and elaborating social synchronization through rhythms that call us into particular alignments and orientations. And in turn, sound also provides a medium for interrupting and disrupting, intervening within particular social orders with a given noise – how often individuals and communities carve out different forms of life by way of a sonic energy, whether in speaking up, voicing refusal, calling for change, or in sounding paths of escape and renewal, joy and celebration, to shift a …
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Block Seminar - Dates:
22.05.2026
13.05.2026
27.05.2026
03.06.2026
10.06.2026
01.07.2026
What is a scar if not the memory of a once open wound?
You press your finger between my toes, slide
the soap up the side of my leg, until you reach
the scar with the two holes, where the pins were
inserted twenty years ago. Leaning back, I
remember how I pulled the pin from the leg, how
in a waist-high cast, I dragged myself
from my room to show my parents what I had done.
Your hand on my scar brings me back to the tub
and I want to ask you: What do you feel
when you touch me there? I want you to ask me:
What are you feeling now? But we do not speak.
You drop the soap in the water and I continue
washing, alone. Do you know my father would
bathe my feet, as you do, as if it was the most
natural thing. But up to now, I have allowed
only two pair of hands …
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This semester we will consider both how our built environment tells stories and how we read them. The seminar builds on takeaways from last semester, which established an understanding of the (so-called post)colonial city, which is formed by design of centrality, and invested in validating the idea of the centrality of power, capital, knowledge, and culture. However, on our ventures into small pockets of the city, we will seek out sites of memory, and places that we recognize, even if we have not been there before. We will consider the city as an archive, but also as a place for good walks- one that can feel like home, and thus, becomes a site of resistance (Bell Hooks, 1990).
Our starting point is Mehringplatz, and we will return here repeatedly in order to connect our reflections and responses to the site of the Berlin Bleibt festival. This will be the core of …
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Playable Infrastructures: Sound, Space, and the Mobile Playground
This seminar builds on a project developed in the previous semester and moves toward its realization within the context of Berlin Bleibt #5, taking place at the end of June 2026.
Over the course of 2.5 months, a mobile vessel and a series of performative formats—games, sound situations, and encounters—are developed, tested, and situated within the area around Mehringplatz and Mehringdamm. Rather than approaching the city as a fixed environment, the seminar understands it as a field of relations shaped by migration, housing conditions, infrastructures, and everyday negotiations of presence and access.
The project does not aim to represent these conditions, but to engage them through situated action. The vessel, developed collectively by students, functions as a mobile and shared structure that carries sound, hosts interactions, and moves through different sites, activating temporary situations. Alongside it, a set of games and performative formats emerges that …
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Modul V: Theorieseminar: Raum und öffentlicher Kontext
This seminar approaches the archive as a spatial, political, and epistemic construct. Beginning with Achille Mbembe’s The Power of the Archive and Its Limits (2002), we examine the conditions of archives: how are archives produced? What are the rituals involved in forming an archive? What are the political conditions of the archive’s foundation? On whose authority does it depend? How is the archive decoded, and under which narrative and conditions is it presented to the public? We will draw special attention to the spatio-temporal strategies, such as the operation of montage, in which “A montage of fragments thus creates an illusion of totality and continuity. Through this introduction, we will critically examine the tensions between preservation and destruction, and the forms of “archival violence” embedded in institutional practices, discussing Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (1995).
Building on this, the seminar continues by theorising ways to intervene in (colonial) archives …
In the spring 2026 seminar titled: “The Supper - Reflections on Food Cultures as a Common Space of Cosmopolitanism”, we aim to explore the culinary traditions of our diverse cultural backgrounds in greater depth from various perspectives.
Through the diversity of textures, colors, and flavors in food, the various cuisines of the world and their dining cultures have served as a cultural means of communication from the dawn of our shared history to the present day. As a common language transcending geographical borders, linguistic systems, and religions, recipes and food cultures have evolved over centuries and are subject to constant change due to shifting sociopolitical conditions and human mobility. For one example, the meze culture—found in all the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire as well as in those influenced by Greece, Armenia, Arabia, Italy, and the Balkans—reflects the multicultural and cosmopolitan history of the Mediterranean region. A cultural tradition and …
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Modul II: Praxisseminar: Materialität und Medialität
NOT KNOWING AS PRAXIS
What does it mean to begin from not knowing?
In many academic and artistic contexts, knowledge is treated as something that must be accumulated, demonstrated, and mastered. Yet Black feminist thought reminds us that knowledge is often produced in other ways—through lived experience, embodied memory, intuition, and forms of listening, are often the conditions through which knowledge becomes possible- that exceed the limits of formal explanation. Refusing premature clarity can open space for attention, relation, and imagination.
This seminar approaches ‘not knowing as a method of artistic practice’. Rather than treating uncertainty as something to overcome, we will explore how to work with it: how questions, gaps, fragments, and intuitions can generate new forms. What happens when an idea is allowed to remain unresolved for longer? When artistic practice becomes a form of attention rather than a search for immediate answers? And when refusal—of legibility—becomes part of how knowledge …
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Modul V: Theorieseminar: Raum und öffentlicher Kontext
The seminar will build on previous investigations on the topic of more than-human as witness and memorial of persisting, structural violence. Within this frame, the question of how digital tools and products contribute to this process of writing memory and narratives in the natural and built environment remains crucial.
In the Summer semester, we develop this topic further, and in particular, we’ll explore how digital technology challenges the preservation of data and memory, and of data as memory.
Digital cartographies like Google Earth maps are emblematic cases. Apparent neutral, open access representations of lands and territories, these topographies rather offer transitory, manipulated, vertical, top-down access to a landscape’s visualization that responds to imperialistic agendas, with repercussions on the mode of remembering places and storing, or erasing traces of them.
Within this frame, we’ll focus on the concept of ‘data witnessing’, which refers to how situations can be accounted for and responded to with …