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16. Newsletter of the CRC 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” | October 2025

Dear colleagues,
dear friends of the CRC 1265!

Welcome to the latest edition of the CRC 1265 newsletter!

As our second funding phase draws to a close, we look back on an eventful period filled with research, collaboration, and exchange. Following our recent evaluation, we are now looking forward with hope to receive positive news regarding an extension into a third funding period. Our annual conference in November will mark the conclusion of this phase, offering a space for exchange and reflection on the practical relevance of the work carried out over the past years – and an opportunity to look ahead! This semester, we are particularly pleased to welcome lots of guest scholars to the CRC. In this newsletter, we share updates, activities and publications from across our network.

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


Upcoming Events
Talk: Do spatial figures have backgrounds? Bringing Gestalt Theory into dialogue with spatial refiguration by Charlotte Renda (Bielefeld) 

November 5, 5 – 6:30 pm, BH-N 230
TU Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1

7th International Conference:
“Designing Refiguration – Refiguring Design: Exploring Practices of Changing Spaces.”
November 6-7, 2025

Large-scale societal shifts, such as globalization, digitalization, migration and climate change, have led to the refiguration of spaces as heterogeneous, overlapping and often conflicting orders. Over the past seven years, the CRC has played a leading role in researching these dynamics. This conference will explore the influence of spatial refiguration on design, and consider how design can encourage innovative thinking to address the growing complexity of socio-spatial change. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, the conference will feature a dynamic mix of keynote lectures, thematic panels, and roundtables to encourage inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue and reconsider the practical relevance of refiguration research.

Confirmed speakers include Deane Simpson, Jane Rendell, Georgeen Theodore, Gabu Heindl and Drehli Robnik.

The conference will be accompanied by the exhibition “Investigating Refiguration”, which will be open to view throughout the conference days.

Venue: Institute of Architecture (IFA), TU Berlin

register here until October 31
International Seminar:
“The Spatial Lives of Wind” 

Speakers: Prof. Dr. Tomás Ariztía, Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías and Dr. Indrawan Prabaharyaka, 

November 17, 2025, 4:15 – 5:45 pm.

Venue: Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE)
HU Berlin, Room 212, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. (ehem. M*str.) 40/41

Talk: “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War: The Case of Beirut” by Birgit Schäbler (Erfurt)

November 20, 2025, 3 pm.

Venue: BH-N 230
TU Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1

Save the Date: Book Launch
“Spacetimes Matter” at Pro qm

Januar 30, 7:30 pm with Jamie-Scott Baxter, Anna Juliane Heinrich, Séverine Marguin and Vivien Sommer (Editors).

Venue: Pro qm, Almstadtstraße 48, 10119 Berlin


Looking Back
Eating Venice Alive. Venice BeReal Game, Venice photography and ceramics by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bürkle
August 1 – October 9, 2025. Venue: ZAGREUS PROJEKT

In her CRC 1265 project Imaginations of Venice, Berlin-based artist and CRC PI Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bürkle examines the global circulation of Venice’s imagery, working at the interface of art and research. The exhibition Eating Venice Alive presented 200 photographs from Bürkle’s long-term engagement with the city, assembled into a visual “Venetian horizon.” Guests were served dishes on Bürkle’s own ceramic works, whose glazes reflect the vivid colors of the Venetian lagoon. As part of the project, a new game was also introduced: Venice BeReal invites players to explore the city through the perspectives of a tourist, resident, investor, or art student—encountering, along the way, moments of both serendipity and disorientation.

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Exhibition Venice BeReal by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bürkle
September 6 – 28, 2025, Palazzetto Tito, Venice

The exhibition Venice BeReal at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa presented Stefanie Bürkle’s long-term exploration of Venice as both a real place and a circulating image. Through photographs, a video installation, and a new board game, Bürkle traced how the city is reproduced, mirrored, and reimagined across time and geography. At its center, the video installation Venice Atlas and a selection of works from the series Imaginations of Venice, Eiscafé Venezia, and Lido Lost examined how memory, migration, and media continuously reshape Venice’s identity.

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Visiting Scholars

This winter semester we’re welcoming the following Visiting Scholars:

  • Felipe Torres (UC Chile)
  • Tomoko Watarai (Yokohama City University)
  • Christine Leuenberger (Cornell University)
  • Tomás Ariztía (Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile)

As well as PhD scholars Agustina Frisch (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and
Beatriz Alés Gregori (TU Dresden)!


Congratulations

New CRC 1265 Co-Speaker and principal investigator of subproject B01 Silke Steets has been appointed the professorship for “Allgemeine Soziologie” at TU Berlin! She took up the chair in this winter semester.

Jamie-Scott Baxter has been appointed Guest Professor for Urban Design and Urban Development at HafenCity University Hamburg from October 2025 to October 2026.


Publications

As we’re nearing the end of our second funding phase, several more publications containing CRC research have been released! A comprehensive overview of all publications can be found on our homepage.

Baxter, J.-S., Heinrich, A. J., Marguin, S., & Sommer, V. (Eds.). (2025).
Spacetimes Matter. A Collection of Mapping Methodologies. Jovis.
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Open Access: Knoblauch, H., Sommer, V., & Pfetsch, B. (Eds.). (2025).
Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces. The Dynamics of Refiguration. Routledge.
read more
Open Access: Frehse, F., Million, A., & Castillo Ulloa, I. (Eds.). (2025).
Spatial Methods in Trans-disciplinarity for Urban Sustainability. A Trans-formative Methodological Spectrum. Springer.
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Bürkle, S. (2025). Imaginations of Venice. Hatje Cantz Verlag.
read more

Media
"Urban Furniture Quartett"
by Aline Fraikin, Christopher Heidecke

From park benches and public clocks in Simmel’s time to today's rainwater benches and charging stations, urban furniture has long been a part of city life.
The Quartett presents 36 examples of street furniture alongside an essay and a DIY print template, inviting exploration of the everyday designs that sustain our cities.

Concept, game & text: Aline Fraikin & Christopher Heidecke, Illustrations from Svea Hansohn.

Open Access, publication is in German.

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Spatial Conflicts – Exhibition Film
produced by Zoé Perko

The exhibition brought together 14 artists – from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, and working in different media – to explore spatial conflicts around culture, migration, inequality, environmental crises, postcolonial legacies, and more. Reflecting on how these spatial tensions shape contemporary life, the exhibition encouraged dialogue between art and research on the refiguration of spaces, and new ways of thinking about space, conflict, and coexistence.

watch here
Space Oddity #27 – Venice be Real. Imaginaries between Residents, Visitors, and Platforms

In the 27th episode the panelists discuss how tourism and digital platforms are transforming Venice. Topics include the impact of Airbnb on housing and everyday life, the role of Google Maps and Instagram and many more.

Discussants are Prof. Stefanie Bürkle, Prof. Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Dr. Nicolas Zehner, Christina Hecht and Simon C. Pohl. Recorded in March 2025.

listen here
Blog-Series
"Looking Back"

Our “Looking Back” blog series continues, with more early career researchers from the CRC 1265 reflecting on their working lives, sharing insights into their research and offering advice to those just starting out.

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