Cooperations
The Collaborative Research Center 1265 has established a wide range of connections and collaborations with institutions and individual researchers in Germany and abroad. This national and international network has been continuously expanded over the past two funding phases—not least through the intensive collaboration of the subprojects with international cooperation partners as part of their field research.
The CRC has worked with researchers from over 60 countries on joint field visits, data collection and analysis, workshops, and courses, both in Berlin and in the partners’ home countries. In addition to research collaborations, joint research seminars have also been carried out with students from China, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt.
The CRC has established long-term international collaborations with institutions and networks, including:
- Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Research
- DAAD Exceed Center “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (SMUS)
- Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple” (University of Bayreuth)
- Collaborative Research Center Transregio SFB/TRR 294 “Structural Change of Property”
- DFG Network “Diagnosing (in) the modern age”
- German Seminar of the University of Zurich
- Center for Asian Urban Societies (CAUS) at the Seoul National University, South Korea
- Universidad Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Southeast University Nanjing, China
- University of Lagos, Nigeria
- University of the Arts London, Great Britain
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Nairobi University, Kenya
- Chuka University, Kenya
With regard to the practical design of refiguration and questions of building culture in a refigured society, we consider it to be particularly important to exchange ideas with partners involved in practical work. In this respect we our collaborations include the following international think tanks and institutes:
- Bauhaus Earth
- International Institute for Environment and Development, Great Britain
- World Resources Institute, USA
- UN Habitat, Kenya
- United Nations Development Office, Nigeria
- Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland
- ETH Zurich, Switzerland
At the intersection between university research, art and public outreach, the CRC also works with a number of artistic institutions.
During the second funding phase, for example, we collaborated with the Berlin film festival Afrikamera and the pan-African film festival FESPACO in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on the topic of translocalization in serial production.
The interdisciplinary working group “Hybrid Mapping” of the CRC Method-Lab has been cooperating with the “Teatr Łaźnia Nowa – Dom Utopii” art center in Nowa Huta, Krakow (Poland) in the context of method development.
As part of the 2025 Venice Architecture and Film Biennale 2025, the CRC exhibition Venice BeReal will be shown at Palazzo Tito in cooperation with the Settore Cultura e Istituzione Bevilaqua La Masa.
During the first funding phase, the event series “Refiguring Spaces” was realized in collaboration with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). This process-based event series focused on transdisciplinary spatial research practices and the mutual questioning of current spatial discourses in art and science.