Space Oddity SFB 1265 Re-Figuration von Räumen

In this episode, Jeannine Teichert, Postdoc at the University of Paderborn and visiting researcher at CRC1265, talks to research associate Zoé Perko about the unique home-making processes of displaced Ukrainians amid the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion. They explore the relationship between home-making practices and the concept of "shuttle refuge", where Ukrainians move back and forth between their home and host countries, navigating physical and digital spaces of (in)security.

In dieser Ausgabe tauschen sich Gastwissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Oliver Frey (Hochschule Nürtingen-Geislingen) und Methodenlab- sowie Teilprojektleiterin Dr. Séverine Marguin (C06, SFB 1265) über Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen des interdisziplinären Arbeitens im akademischen Umfeld und das metaphorische interdisziplinäre Tanzen im soziologischen Streitgespräch aus.

In this episode, and in the context of our summer school "Power and Space," we talk with four activists about spaces of resistance, and we hear from two researchers about their reactions to what we have been discussing. The activists share their stories, lessons learned, and thoughts on everyday activism. Together with our colleagues, we try to understand how actors create spaces that are used as tools of resistance, and how these spaces are formed through social (collective) action, communication and networking, where relationships of solidarity and cohesion emerge.

“An Atlas of Spatial Figures" is the title of the forthcoming publication (to be released in autumn 2024) by CRC 1265 subproject PIs Ignacio Farias and Silke Steets. The book gathers over 40 stories of CRC 1265 researchers discovering new spatial figures in addition to the four previously identified dominant spatial figures. For the book project, they collaborated with Viennese artist Nikolaus Gansterer in multimodal workshops. This episode is an excerpt from a performance lecture, which took place at the international symposium "Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene" at the ICI Berlin in October 2023. It provides insights into the concept of the book and two performed "vectors of refiguration" through two stories and the spatial figures they express.

In this episode, we relive our latest international symposium, which took place on October 5-6 at the ICI Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, with our two organizers, Silke Steets and Ignacio Farías, and brief statements from four keynote speakers.

In this new episode, our two project researchers Eric Lettkemann (B04) and Simon Pohl (C07) talk to CRC Visiting Researcher Tanja Bosch (University of Cape Town). Together they reflect on the "Rhodes Must Fall" student protests and new forms of social activism, as well as on the question of a potential directionality from digital to physical space, how queer spaces are represented on Instagram or TikTok in the South African context, and what it means to decolonize research and digital methods.