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    Colloquium / Offices Dates

    SoSe 2024

    Teaching

    MA Thesis Colloquium
    1. Fr 03.05. – 14.00-17.00 (online)
    2. Fr 24.05. – 14.00-17.00 (A 714 / hybrid)
    3. Fr 21.06. – 14.00-17.00 (online)
    online: Zoom Link
    hybrid: A 714 & Zoom Link
    PhD Colloquium
    1. Fr 10.05. – 15.00-18.00 (online)
    2. Fr 07.06. – 15.00-18.00 (A 714 / hybrid)
    3. Fr 05.07. – 15.00-18.00 (online)
    online: Zoom Link
    hybrid: A 714 & Zoom Link
    Office Hours
    1. Fr 10.05. – 10.00-12.00 (online)
    2. Fr 24.05. – 10.00-12.00 (A 714 / hybrid)
    3. Fr 07.06. – 10.00-12.00 (A 714 / hybrid)
    4. Fr 21.06. – 10.00-12.00 (online)
    5. Fr 19.07. – 10.00-12.00 (A 714 / hybrid
    Online consultation hours usually on Fridays between 10 and 12 o’clock.
    Individual Booking: Link
    online: Zoom Link
    hybrid: A 714 & Zoom Link

    (fig: Büro, Thomas Demand, 1995)

    Beyond the family: Non-normative housing practices

    Master seminar

    Teaching

    Since its inception, collective housing has been predominantly tailored to accommodate the nuclear family as the primary household unit. Even in the present day, speculative and commodified housing, aimed at an unspecified user, remains tailored with the family in focus, serving as the predominant living arrangement sought after by conservative and affluent renters or buyers. However, the reality in Berlin is quite different: over half of all households are single≠person households, with another 30 percent consisting of two individuals. This highlights a variety of living arrangements beyond the nuclear family that must be considered when thinking and designing housing.

    This seminar will look into non≠normative housing practices in Berlin and map their diversity and spatial characteristics. We will explore various forms of emancipatory, queer feminist housing that diverge from the capitalist, patriarchal, and normative models. Together, we will map out these practices and their strategies to ensure equitable access to suitable housing for everyone who does not conform to conventional norms. Additionally, individual groups will focus on examining a specific example in greater detail. By the end of the semester, we will collaboratively assemble a compendium on non≠normative housing arrangements, thereby increasing visibility for these practices and emphasising the importance of including them in future urban planning and architecture typology development.

    Team: LA Ana Filipović Mecke

    When: Monday | 10:00-14:00

    Where: A816

    First session: 15.04.2024 | 10.00 Uhr

    IfA EXPO

    Bachelor + Master

    Teaching

    This years exhibition will continue the tradition of a student organized event.
    We want to explore different ways of communicating and discussing architecture at the IFA, coordinate the exhibition of all student works, create a space for different talks and interactions, as well as celebrate the completed semester.

    Team: IfA Kollektiv / Jörg Stollmann

    When: Tuesday | 16:00-18:00

    Where: A 201a

    First session: 16.04.2024 | 16:00

    D.I.Y. Paradigm Shift (PIV)

    Master PIV

    Teaching

    Projektintegrierte Vertiefung – will be a part of the studio where you shape and share your accumulated knowledge with others. In addition to your individual or group student projects, which we conventionally produce at the end of each semester, the studio aims to document a collective experience at the group level. The inputs provided through field trips, guest lectures, excursions, discussions, etc., will serve as your main source materials along with the research you produce in the studio. After each presentation in the studio, we will conduct a PiV reflection round focused on unlearning methods, consisting of three sessions. The product format of the PiV will be discussed as a group.
    Team: WM Marta Fernández Guardado / WM Veljko Marković
    Where: A816
    When: Fridays
    First session: 19.04.2024 | 10:00

    D.I.Y. Paradigm Shift

    Master Studio

    Teaching

    The studio is interested in understanding the D.I.Y. (do it yourself) phenomenon as a horizontal learning tool for self-organized, self-sustained, self-governed, and self-built urban environments. It revolves around the idea of self-produced knowledge, often considered non-professional, amateur, vernacular, primitive, or even ugly by architectural discourse. While largely understood as a Western phenomenon, prevailing in the form of “how-to” tutorials, the reemergence of neglected indigenous knowledge sources e.g. as seen in the book “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” (Graeber & Wengrow), emphasizes the urgency of not overlooking other non-academic knowledge sources for future planning. The “Paradigm Shift” is already taking place. We aim to bring these dichotomies together in the form of a free and experimental studio. Teaching self-taught knowledge entails the complicated task of unlearning, allowing us to move past our previous education. That is why we would encourage open and motivated students to apply. The studio will facilitate horizontal discussions exploring the history of countercultures, queer ecologies, non-normative living communities, and indigenous knowledge as experiences with the potential for collective learning.

    Team: Prof. Jörg Stollmann / WiMi Veljko Marković

    When: Thrusday and/or Friday | 10:00 – 17:00 Uhr

    Where: A816

    First session: 18.04.2024 | 10:00 Uhr

    Hyrdopolitical (Hi)stories: Keeping Tracks

    Master PIV

    Teaching

    This PiV is part of the studio “Hydropolitical (Hi)stories: Redrawing Berlin-Brandenburg’s Acquifer.” You are invited to collect and record your thoughts, lines, flows, marks and journeys through and around Berlin-Brandenburg’s groundwater system in a personal research diary. Start your arts of noticing, tune in to the human and non-hu­man voices you encounter on your field visits. Find ways of capturing ghostly presences and watery absences. Keep track of your tracks, and other tracks, too. Correspond, relate, reflect. Think about how to use your personal emotions and reflections as ethnographic data. Think about how to use coincidences, chance and ambiguity in your final aquifer re/drawing. Think, write, sketch and hand it in as a stran­ge and beautiful artefact.

    Team: WM Jamie-Scott Baxter / LA Felix Xylander-Swannell

    When: tba

    Where: A816

    First session: tba

    Hyrdopolitical (Hi)stories: Redrawing Berlin- Brandenburg’s Aquifer

    Master Studio

    Teaching

    The studio aims to collectively research and redraw Berlin Brandenburg’s aquifer paying close attention to the hydro political (hi)stories animating it. Typically, techno-scientifi representations tend to visualize the aquifer as inert rockmaterial permeated by groundwater and dislocated from the urban processes above. Our objective is to redesign the ways in which the aquifer as a multitude of vibrant more-than-human matters is made visible and encountered. We do this by reconstructing the specific political pressures that surge water unevenly through urbanized stratifications. 0ur motivation: to provide new artefacts, concepts and figure- grounds for a more critical spatial design praxis. Engaging multiple spatial and temporal scales, the stu­dio follows a single assignment to rethink and redesign the aquifer. Working in small 9Iroups across four Berlin­Brandenburg sites, you will ex:cavate the sites· specific hydrosocial histories using multimodal methods including, spacetime drawing, hybrid mapping and ethnographic field­work. Methods will be taught through onsite workshops and an optional lecture series (SPACETIME MATTERS). During the course you are encouraged to keep a research diary to critically reflect on your learnings. Submission will include your diaries and short individual reflexive texts IPiV), group portfolios and a singular collective redrawing of the aquifer. logy development.

    Team: WM Jamie-Scott Baxter / LA Felix Xylander-Swannell

    When: Thrusday and/or Friday | 09:00 – 18:00

    Where: A816

    First session: 18.04.2024 | 10:00

    Studio Hybrid Infrastructures

    Master Studio

    Teaching

    See down below for results of the studio.
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    Today, urban infrastructures have become complex and messy. They can be seen as much more than just old pipes, cables, and containers. Urban infrastructures are deeply entangled with the landscape and the biodiversity of the environment in which they intervene. This entanglement is further complicated by the fact that urban infrastructures are traditionally sites of expertise. These infrastructures appear difficult to read and, as a result, impossible to alter.
    But what happens when an urban infrastructural space is opened up, its function hybridized and its use collectivized? What protocols, routines, schedules and choices manifest when an urban infrastructure is infused with care: softened and layered with diverse meanings? Can these new circumstances transform urban infrastructures into spaces for commoning and stages for public debates?
    The urban design research studio takes on the site of Floating University – the rainwater retention basin serving Tempelhofer Feld – and the situation of Floating e.V. – an in-depth cohabitation between the constructed water infrastructure, its human culture and its other-than-human overlays.
    Departing from the idea of learning as a form of living and responding to contemporary conversations about social and environmental justice as well as histories of alternative narratives for urban development the studio’s point of convergence is the feminist approach to spatial practices. This approach is reflected in the emphasis on the very process of space-making and its collective nature over its finite form, as well as on the inclusion and recognition of the equally significant agency that all objects (buildings, infrastructures), people, and species have in the continuous co-creation,maintenance and reconfiguring of all material relations within the built environment.
    Students are invited to engage with the site and its complex ecology while acknowledging that we are situated in relation, in cohabitation, with an infrastructural site and its many living forms. After an initial collective research phase, students develop their very own site-responsive projects: from small interventions, theoretical propositions to playful, imaginative spatial strategies in a variety of formats for this hybrid infrastructure.
    Instructor: Rosario Talevi

    Dates & Colloquium WiSe 2023/24

    Office Hours

    Teaching

    For registration for a 30 min appointment with Jörg Stollmann please contact our office manager Aline Schulze under a.schulze@tu-berlin.de

    2. Fr 27.10. / 14-17 (online)
    3. Fr 24.11. / 14-16.30 (online)
    4. Fr 08.12. / 14-17 (online)
    5. Fr 05.01. / 14-17 (online)
    6. Fr 26.01. / 14-17 (online)

    ZOOM LINK

    hybrid: A 806 & Zoom

    (fig: Büro, Thomas Demand, 1995)

    Dates & Colloquium WiSe 2023/24

    Master Thesis Colloquium

    Teaching

    1. MI 25.10. / 14-16.30 (online)
    2. MI 15.11. / 14-16.30 (hybrid)
    3. MI 20.12. / 14-16.30 (online)
    4. MI 10.01. / 14-16.30 (online)
    5. MI 31.01. / 14-16.30 (hybrid)

    ZOOM LINK

    hybrid: A 806 & Zoom

    (fig: Büro, Thomas Demand, 1995)

    Dates & Colloquium WiSe 2023/24

    PhD Colloquium

    Teaching

    Please register two week in advance with Aline Schulze under a.schulze@tu-berlin.de.
    If you want to present, please send a short abstract about your presentation and what you want to discuss so we can group accordingly.
    2. MI 29.11. / 14-18 (hybrid)
    3. MI 07.02. / 14-18 (online)
    hybrid: A 806 & Zoom

    (fig: Büro, Thomas Demand, 1995)

    Common Waste

    Common Resources

    Teaching

    The human body is a super-organism: a conglomeration of cells that, with magnificent collaborative effort, form the possibility of movement, of thought, of human will and action.
    Throughout life, the material that makes up our physical selves changes continuously. Matter, alive or dead, enters our bodies, becomes one with our bodies, and leaves our bodies to become one with something else. For more than 300,000 years, humans have lived on Earth following this principle of nutritional exchange between different life forms. That is, until the invention of WASTE.

    Waste dictates our (mis)understanding of metabolic flows by design. Today, our current infrastructure of organic waste treatment fails to acknowledge the immense potential for life that is bound within organic matter.

    In this transdisciplinary block seminar, we invite MA students from various backgrounds to dive into the primordial soup of the Andreasviertel. Let’s swim around and explore the organic flows around us. How is the neighborhood wrapped up in the metabolic tangle? How do we design the return of our excess organic material to the continued cycle of life, locally?

    Employing our wits, senses, and expertise at equal levels, we will reflect on our reality to initiate a process of envisioning and crafting blueprints of possible futures. Together with dwellers, we will read the space anew, and draft tools and methods that fundamentally reconfigure the understanding and treatment of the treasure that we still call WASTE.

    For more information and to apply, please visit
    https://tusca7.org