14. Newsletter | January 2025 | read in your Web Browser |
Dear colleagues,
dear friends of the CRC 1265!
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Welcome to the latest edition of the CRC 1265 newsletter!
As we look back on an eventful year, we are proud to have made significant strides in our research, with numerous publications and results now in print and more in the pipeline.
Just this week, transcript published the edited volume Figuring Out Spaces , an exploratory journey into the social world of space and the spatial spheres of the social, dedicated as a “Festschrift” on the occasion of Martina Löw's 60th birthday.
As we look ahead to the next term, we'll be taking a bit of a step back from our usual busy schedule of events to focus on preparing for our continuation evaluation in July. We're excited about what's to come and look forward to sharing more with you soon!
All the latest information can also be found on our homepage and on our social media channels!
Due to recent developments, we have decided to no longer post on our Twitter account. Follow us on Bluesky for the latest updates and news!
We hope you enjoy reading!
The CRC 1265 Central Management Office
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Workshop / Lecture “Translocal, transnational, and hybrid spatial structures”, 26th of November, TU Berlin
The workshop consisted of three parts: First, the audio-visual work of guest artist Camilo Bravo Molano provided an input for the workshop’s creative and imaginative process. This was followed by a drawing session in which participants shared ideas and suggestions for graphic languages to address questions of translocality, transnationalism and hybrid cultural space-oriented structures. The workshop closed with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Magdalena Nowicka on her research on migration, mobility, transnational processes and the convivial society.
Workshop: “Varieties of Refiguration? On Multiple Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements & the Economy 1”, 21st -22nd of November, TU Berlin
The conference brought together researchers from different geographical contexts and disciplinary approaches to shed light on the relevance of space for economic activities. It was based on the proposition that the diversity and variety of empirical material and conceptual thinking may indicate the existence of varieties of refiguration, convergences and divergences in processes of refiguration.
International Conference “Conflicts in Space – Spatial Conflicts”, 10th and 11th of October, TU Berlin
How do conflicts unfold over, across and within space? The CRC’s 6th annual international conference, held in October, brought together scholars from a range of disciplines and research projects to discuss this pertinent question. Panels explored space-related conflicts at all scales, from street violence to legal disputes, state-level conflicts, and conflicts over climate change, and in different settings, such as neighborhoods, cities and regions, while discussions aimed to identify some general principles behind the spatial dynamics of social conflict. Highlights included keynote lectures by Prof. Arjun Appadurai (New York University) and Prof. Teresa Koloma Beck (Helmut-Schmidt University).
If you missed it, you can read a summary on our blog1 / 2 or watch Arjun Appadurai’s keynote on our youtube channel.
Read up on these and other events in our website archive or check our Youtube channel for lecture recordings!
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Space Talks
– Online Lecture Series
“Pluralizing Ontologies” | 5:30pm CET –
The digital lecture series “Space Talks” aims to pluralize and de-center perspectives in socio-spatial research by engaging in discussions with a wide range of colleagues in the field – from different disciplinary and geographical research contexts.
The next session will feature:
Pasang Sherpa (University of British Columbia): Plurality of community response to climate change related disasters
Liana Chua (University of Cambridge): Pluralizing (durian) ontologies in a drowned landscape
For further information and registration click here.
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Varieties of Refiguration? On Spatial Arrangements & the Economy 2
— CRC Authors’ Workshop, TU Berlin—
This is the follow-up to the international workshop in November 2024 and is aimed at authors of a planned special issue in the journal “Historical Social Research”. |
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February / March 2025
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— Exhibition,
Project Space Meinblau, Pfefferberg —
Over the centuries, images of Venice have spread throughout the world. What ideas and expectations have they triggered, and how do these images and expectations shape the city of Venice today? In the CRC 1265’s artistic research project “Imaginations of Venice”, Berlin-based artist Stefanie Bürkle sees her own image production, having photographed Venice on her travels over the last 30 years, as part of the global circulation of images, a loop in which Venice is fixed, reproduced, reduced and multiplied as a projection foil for various spatial imaginations.
Vernissage: 28.02.2025 - 6pm CET
Finissage: 23.03.2025 – 4pm CET
Further Information
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— Exhibition,
BHROX bauhaus reuse on Ernst-Reuter-Platz —
Featuring contributions from CRC 1265 artists as well as external contributors, the exhibition “Spatial Conflicts”, organized by PhD Candidate Zoé Perko and Associate Janin Walter, will explore contemporary spatial tensions and their broader societal implications.
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— International Conference –
The globalized, interconnected, and rapidly changing nature of contemporary societies is expressed in the ways in which spaces are produced, experienced, understood, and transformed. Large-scale societal shifts—such as globalization, digitalization, migration, and climate change—have led to the refiguration of spaces into heterogeneous, overlapping, and often conflicting spatial orders. Over the past seven years, the CRC “Refiguration of Spaces” has played a leading role in researching these dynamics. The 7th international conference of the CRC, which marks the end of its 2nd funding phase, aims to examine how spatial refiguration is designed, how it influences design, and how design can foster innovative rethinking that addresses the growing complexity of social change and its spatial implications. |
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CRC 1265 spokesperson Martina Löw has been awarded the prestigious Schader Prize by the “Schader Stiftung”. With this award, the foundation's senate honors innovative researchers as well as outstanding achievements in knowledge transfer. The festive ceremony will take place in Darmstadt in June.
Subproject C07 principal investigator Stefan Kirchner has been appointed a professorship for ”Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt transnationale Arbeit“ at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen.
CRC postdoctoral researcher Lucas Pohl has been appointed a professorship for ”Humangeographie mit Schwerpunkt auf kritischer Stadtforschung“ at the University of Innsbruck.
Prof. Dr. Silke Steets will be a fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt from April to September 2025 as part of the research group ”Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations”.
The Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS) has recently been awarded DAAD (BMZ) funding for a another phase (2025–2029).
Based at TU Berlin, SMUS addresses issues related to the Sustainable Development Goal #11 ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’ of the Agenda 2030. Following a first funding phase (2020-2024), focused on advancing academic discourse on spatial methods for urban sustainability, phase II will address intertwined pressing urban problems and offer insights and ideas on how to tackle these challenges through transdisciplinary, spatial and practice-led research
The following CRC members have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations:
Valentin Domann – “Die lokale Dimension des populistischen Rechtsradikalismus. Raumrelationale Zugriffe auf kommunale Politiken der AfD, ihre Kontextfaktoren und Effekte”
Kamil Bembnista – “Border Exposures - Vom Re-Assembling der Ungewissheit in Grenzdiskursen und darüber hinaus”
Congratulations to all!
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We are excited to host the following visiting scholars at the CRC!
A warm welcome to:
Fraya Frehse (University of São Paulo): January – March
Marc Ries (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/Main): January/February
Agustina Frisch (Universidad de Buenos Aires): February – May
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Over the last few months, several more publications containing CRC research have been released! A comprehensive overview of all publications can be found on our homepage.
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Figuring Out Spaces is an exploratory journey into the social world of space and the spatial spheres of the social. The volume is intended to stimulate curiosity about spatial research and spatial theory by bringing together important voices in spatial thinking from recent decades and placing them in dialogue with one another. The central point of reference for this dialogue is the work of Martina Löw, to whom this volume is dedicated as a “Festschrift” on the occasion of her 60th birthday.
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In the fifth interface film of the CRC 1265, researchers Séverine Marguin (subproject “Streaming Series”) and Zoé Perko (subproject “Borders of the World”) talk to Janin Walter about globalized spaces, the internationalization of television media and borders, and how these configurations impact our everyday life. |
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In this episode of Space Oddity, host Christopher Heidecke talks to Jonas Wahmkow (TAZ) about practices in the journalism and science industry. Together they talk about Jonas' stay and impressions at the CRC 1265 in October 2024 and also explore transfer and networking opportunities.
German Episode
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This blog post by Elettra Griesi aims to reflect on the ways in which the decolonization of knowledge can be actively pursued through the co-production of research. It focuses on examples from the author’s own research activities in the field of cultural anthropology in a historically marginalized district of Dakar (Senegal). |
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In this blogpost Jae-Young Lee asks how spatial theory informs spatial practice. What can practitioners gain from reading a scientific paper? The post contains a personal reflection on a recent CRC 1265 working paper on multiple understandings of rurality and its links and parallels to the practice of Gyaw Gyaw, a locally-run architectural NGO located at the rural Thai-Myanmar border. |
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Numerous recordings of CRC events and profile videos are available on our YouTube channel.
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Our Instagram page offers glimpses into our various research activities and events.
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Due to recent developments, we have decided to no longer post on our Twitter account. Follow us on Blue Sky! for the latest updates and news!
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