12. Newsletter | April 2024 | 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!
We are entering an exciting summer semester at the CRC, starting with a three-day retreat to discuss our ongoing research progress and kick off the next application phase! Meanwhile, the next Theory Tandem, led by Nina Baur and Stefan Kirchner, has already begun exploring the concept of multiple spatialities. This semester is brimming with a plethora of events as well as the arrival of a number of new visiting scholars.
Read more about these events and upcoming activities in this issue of the CRC 1265 Newsletter.
All the latest information can also be found on our homepage and on our social media channels!
We hope you enjoy reading!
The CRC 1265 Central Management Office
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Inaugural Lecture by Johanna Hoerning – 7th of February, 2024
On the 7th of February 2024, Johanna Hoerning, former PI and current associate member of the CRC 1265, gave her inaugural lecture as part of the new professorship for Spatial Sociology at TU Berlin. She will focus on how social conflicts are played out in and through spaces. We look forward to continuing our close collaboration! The recording of the lecture can also be found on YouTube.
Talk by Gunter Weidenhaus: “Konsequenzen der Refiguration: Raumtheorie, Sozialtheorie und Gesellschaftstheorie weiterdenken?” – 11th of January, 2024
Former CRC 1265 PI Gunter Weidenhaus presented key arguments from his forthcoming "Habil" book, which was conceived in the context of the CRC's exploration of the refiguration of spaces. He specifically formulates a spatial-analytical perspective on globalization and discusses the consequences of refiguration thinking. The recording of the lecture can also be found on YouTube.
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CRC 1265 Retreat
Our next retreat will give us a rare opportunity to meet with the entire CRC group. We're looking forward to three days of in-depth discussions and exchange across all subprojects on all kinds of spatial changes at our various research sites. But there will also be plenty of opportunity for informal gatherings in the Brandenburg countryside!
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“Refiguration of Cyberspace”
— Room BH-N 230 —
This workshop, organized by subproject B02 “Control/Space”, explores various spatial changes and dynamics of the internet infrastructure through the notion of refiguration. Refiguration of Cyberspace seeks to challenge monocausal and one-sided explanations and diagnoses of changes of ‘the’ internet by focusing on the simultaneity and overlap of different, often conflicting, spatial logics and dynamics regarding digital infrastructures and their contemporary meanings.
For more information and registration details, please click here.
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“The Foundation of the Social in Spatial ‘Leib-Centered’ Experiences”
— Public Lecture by Thomas Dörfler (Universität Jena) and Eberhard Rothfuß (Universität Bayreuth)
6 pm, TU Berlin, Room BH-N 230 –
(As part of a cooperation workshop between the CRC 1265 and the University of Bayreuth.)
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“Spacetime Matters II – Drawing (out) spacetimes: Methodological reflections on mapping in socio-spatial research”
— online —
The "Spacetime Matters" lecture series enters its second round! At the core of this series is the idea of spacetime, developed by Doreen Massey and further elaborated in the CRC 1265. In these curated talks, international spatial scholars are invited to discuss the potential of mapping protocols to capture the multiplicity of spaces that exist simultaneously with different temporalities. The second round will, for example, include discussions on the possibilities and challenges of new digital innovations such as AI and animation. The series is hosted by the CRC 1265’s Hybrid Mapping Working Group and the Chair of Urban Design (TU Berlin).
Please register using this link to get the zoom link for the talks!
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“Brutal & Routine: Why Police Reform Always Fails and Why We Need Abolition”
Lecture & Workshop by Nikki Jones (UC Berkeley)
— TU Berlin, BH-N 230 / 3-6pm —
Nikki Jones, Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies at UC-Berkeley, will share some of her work from her current book project, BRUTAL AND ROUTINE, which draws on 20 years of research to crystallize a new and necessary understanding of police violence. The presentation will be followed by an extended commentary by Christy Kulz (TU Berlin).
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“Can African urbanisation be a starting point for urban theory? Or, how to avoid the pitfalls of informality, global south and developmentalism.”
— Public Lecture by Jennifer Robinson (UCL)
6
pm, TU Berlin, Room BH-N 230 (hybrid) —
moderated by Séverine Marguin & Silke Steets
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Workshop “Power and Autonomy in Transformative Research”
— TU Berlin, Institute of Architecture, Architecture Forum —
The workshop will provide an opportunity for collective reflection and exchange on the challenges/potential of transdisciplinarity at the intersection of design and social sciences. Transformative research challenges disciplinary boundaries, renegotiates the polarity between applied and basic research as a catalyst for change, and opens up the possibility of transdisciplinary theory building. The workshop is organized as a cooperation between the Methods-Lab (CRC 1265) and the lab “Planetary Tactics for Cohabitation” (IfA, TU Berlin). Participants include Christian Schmid (ETH) and many more (tbc). |
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Book Launch: with CRC Visiting Fellow Christian Schmid (ETH Zürich)
— 6-8 pm, TU Berlin, Institute of Architecture, Architecture Forum —
CRC Visiting Fellow Christian Schmid (ETH Zürich) will talk to Philipp Misselwitz about his two recent books Extended Urbanisation and Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison. The event is coorganized with the CRC 1265 and part of the “Position IFA” event series.
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Workshop: “Mapping clinic” with Philippe Rekacewicz
— 10am-2pm TU Berlin, Room BH-N 230 —
Selected subprojects will discuss their mapping "work-in-progress" with geographer, cartographer, and information designer Philippe Rekacewicz in relation to their research projects.
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“Privileged Position': Messianic Exteriority and the Exceptional Space of American Sovereignty”,
— Public Lecture by Anthony Reynolds (NYU)
10-12 am, TU Berlin, Room BH-N 230 —
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Workshop: “Spatial Arrangements and Multiple Spatialities”
— 8:30am-6:30pm TU Berlin
Room BH-N 230 —
Multiple spatialities emphasize relational interconnectedness, focusing on the differences, divergences, and distributions that occur simultaneously in space. In the course of this workshop, scholars from different world regions, disciplinary backgrounds, theoretical traditions, and research fields will relate their own research to the CRC debate on spatial arrangements and multiple spatialities. The workshop is jointly organized by the CRC 1265 and the “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (SMUS).
For more information and registration details, please click here.
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Workshop: “Towards an Empirical Theory of Science? Challenges and (Possible) Standards of Scientific Research Today”
— TU Berlin, Room BH-N 230 —
Experts from different disciplines who deal with the study of science in a theoretical and/or empirical way in their research will discuss the question: What is scientific about research and how should science be done? And to what extent do current inter- and transdisciplinary as well as intercultural and transnational contexts influence the currently renegotiated normative definition of science? The workshop is organized jointly by the CRC 1265 and the “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (SMUS).
For more information and registration details, please click here.
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“Unsettling Bodies: Re-Figuring Life and Spaces in Global Asia”
— Public Lecture: Mihye Cho (SungKongHoe University, Seoul) and Minwoo Jeong (Loyola University, Chicago)
4-6pm TU Berlin, Room BH-N 230 —
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Save the Date:
CRC 1265 International Conference: “Conflicts in Space – Spatial Conflicts. Current Research Perspectives”
The conference brings together researchers from different project contexts, disciplines and theoretical orientations to discuss their empirical findings and/or theoretical reflections on manifestations of conflict in and about spaces.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Prof. Sujata Patel (Prof. Emeritus Savitribai Phule Pune) and Prof. Atsuro Morita (Osaka University).
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The following CRC members have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations:
Sezgin Sönmez: “Die performative Vermittlung von Hackerdiskursen im deutschsprachigen Raum”
Alina Wandelt: “Bibliotheken im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Eine historische Architektursoziologie“
Sophie Mélix: “Speculative Renderings. Atmospheres of Urban Development Projects in Lagos and New York”
CRC 1265 PI Prof. Ilse Helbrecht has been awarded the honorary professorship as a ‘Harris Distinguished German Visiting Professor’ from the Ivy League University Dartmouth College, which she will take up in the winter semester 2024/25.
CRC 1265 postdoc Daniela Stoltenberg has been awarded the a Tiburtius-Prize as well as the annual dissertation prize of the “German Communication Association” (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft) for her thesis on “Issue Spatiality and Socio-Spatial Inequality: The Geographic Distribution of Visibility in Urban Public Spheres on Social Media”!
Congratulations to all!
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We are happy to welcome the following visiting scholars this semester!
A warm welcome to:
Iryna Kuptsova (National University Odesa Law Academy) – April-September 2024
Joana Martins (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) – April/May 2024
Jeanine Teichert (Universität Paderborn) – April 2024
Christian Schmid (ETH Zürich) – May 2024
Jennifer Robinson (University College London) – May 2024
Anthony Reynolds (NYU) – June 2024
Mihye Cho (SungKongHoe University) – July 2024
We are also very happy to continue to host Oliver Frey (October 2023 - July 2024) and Simone Lafontaine (October 2022 - September 2024).
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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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Written by Daniela Stoltenberg (2024).
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Edited by Anna Juliane Heinrich, Séverine Marguin, Angela Million,
Jörg Stollmann.
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Working Paper No. 13: Grenzen im Internet? Die RIPE-Debatte um das Internet anlässlich des Ukrainekrieges
Written by Sezgin Sönmez & Hubert Knoblauch (2023). |
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Written by Theresia Leuenberger, Michael Wetzels & Annika Haller (2024).
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Multiple Spatialities
Our CRC 1265 series of interface films, conceived and produced by Janin Walter, has two new editions. The series highlights both the thematic breadth of the CRC 1265 as well as the interconnections between its various subprojects.
In “Multiple Spatialities III: Digitalisierte Räume” Jae-Young Lee, Christina Hecht and Simon Pohl talk about the digitalization of rural and urban spaces and how digitalization influences our everyday actions.
In “Multiple Spatialities IV: Imaginative Räume” Sophie Krone, Carl-Jan Dihlmann and Janin Walter talk about the workings of imaginations of rural and urban spaces.
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Through mapping, researchers can gain insights into the social and cultural dimensions of urban, rural, hybrid and mediated landscapes, as well as analyze ongoing changes and future developments. In recapping last year's CRC mapping workshop, this post engages with the interdisciplinary knowledge generated in the first phase of the CRC and the transdisciplinary potential of mapping methods for the study of socio-spatial phenomena.
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Carl-Jan Dihlmann presents key arguments from a recent journal article he and Ilse Helbrecht published on rural space as relational assemblages, in which they argue for an ontological turn in rural studies. The blog post shows that rural areas are much more complex than the conventional focus on nature and agriculture would suggest.
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This episode presents an exchange between researchers and activists who participated in the CRC 1265 Summer School "Power and Space" on spaces of resistance and (collective) action. The episode features activists Jennifer Kamau (International Women* Space), Elmer van der Wel (Deutsche Wohnen & Co), and Naima Moiasse Maungue and Salina Momade (Black Student Union), as well as participant statements by Judith Keller (Heidelberg University) and Magdalena Morena (Universidad Barcelona), alongside our hosts, CRC 1265 PhD researchers Qusay Amer, Dorothea Biaback-Anong, and Elettra Griesi.
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This episode is an excerpt from a performance lecture given by Viennese artist Nikolaus Gansterer at the international symposium "Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene" in October 2023. It provides insights into the concept of the forthcoming book "An Atlas of Spatial Figures", conceived by CRC 1265 subproject PIs Ignacio Farias and Silke Steets in collaboration with Gansterer, which presents over 40 fictionalized stories written by CRC members about the spatial discoveries in their fields of research |
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Numerous recordings of CRC events and profile videos are available on our YouTube channel.
For example, revisit the lectures and panel discussions from last year's symposium "Spatial Figures of the Anthropocene": with talks by Alexandra Arènes, Tomás Usón, Gastón Gordillo, Andrew Baldwin, Susanne Hauser, Marcela Suárez Estrada!
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Our Instagram page offers glimpses into our various research activities and events.
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