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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)

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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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