by Sabrina Labis Winter Semsster 2024/25 The seminar Walls Have Feelings took us on a journey through Berlin’s architectural landscapes, uncovering the ways in which buildings shape not only our movement but also our thoughts, emotions, and societal structures. Inspired by Katherine Shonfield’s book Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and …
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More than green: City Walk
The second seminar session of „More than green: Urban Ecology and Art” on 6 November 2024 we spent outside under Berlin’s gray and cold sky, walking from Potsdamer Platz to Elise-Tilse-Park, across the pedestrian bridge over the Landwehrkanal and along the outdoor premises of the Technikmuseum into Gleisdreieckpark, and from …
La Biennale di Venezia
This seminar, which took place from June 24–28 in Venice, offered students a unique chance to explore and discuss the 60th Venice Biennale titled Stranieri Ovunque (“Foreigners Everywhere”), curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
MORE STRANGE THINGS
Exhibition, Film, Performances Fri, Jan. 12 – Sun, Jan. 14, 2024 Vernissage Friday, 6 pm at silent green, Betonhalle
Rundgang SoSe 23
As with every end of the summer semster, the students show their works at Rundgang. Medienhaus has opened its doors to welcome curators and curious guest. The classrooms are open to the public and each room exhibits the most recent works of the students, which they made over the course …
Everything is Connected
Art and Science Unite for Climate Justice
Mercury Retrograde: energetic kinships and non-rational inquiry in the artistic process
Mercury Retrograde: energetic kinships and non-rational inquiry in the artistic process In the block seminar “Mercury Retrograde: energetic kinships and non-rational inquiry in the artistic process” the students attempted to observe reality as a “controlled hallucination” and embrace a type of knowledge that is immaterial, non-rational, and usually nondemonstrable with …
The woman who flew into space from her apartment
Seminar imparted by Nina Fisher and Curator Vanina Saracino in Sommer Semester 2022 at Floating University. The woman who flew into space from her apartment will unfold as a non-exhaustive survey of female perspectives on science fiction in literature, cinema, and visual arts, attempting to highlight the unique narratives of …
Excursion to Screen City Biennial In Berlin: Other Minds
Screen City Biennial (SCB) Other Minds looks into the liminal states of consciousness that arise in the symbiotic relationship between the human mind and that of other living and non-living matter—including plants, bacteria, fungi, and technology. The project interrogates and challenges the notion of the human, embracing instead an idea …
Workshop with Pedro Risse
Many thanks to Pedro Risse for last weeks workshop about body and space sensitivity at the Floating University site as part of the seminar “The woman who flew into space from her apartment: SF worldbuilding from a feminist perspective”, of Nina Fischer and Vanina Saracino What does what I do …