Contributor to and host of the protest exhibition and eviction party “Speculative Properties” against real-estate speculation and investors’ greed for profit on 16.-18. June 2023. The artistic project is a reaction to the takeover of the Adalbertsraße 9 building complex at Kotti by the real-estate company Coros Management GmbH and the de-facto eviction of ca. 40 local and international artists and cultural workers who had up until recently been inhabiting its studio spaces.
Speaker at the first edition of the dialogue series “WIMIX” organized by Hendrik Brinkmann, Marius Busch, Li Lin, and Katharina von Stuckrad, research and teaching assistants at the Chair for Design and Building Construction DE/CO with Prof. Jan Kampshoff at TU Berlin on 26. May 2023 together with colleagues Tobias Rabold, Anna Heilgemeir, and Maximilian Hartinger, sharing with the IfA community the things we do beyond IfA.
Speaker at the research colloquia “Architectural Ethnography: Turning Back Inside? Ethnographies of Interiors” organized by Lidia Gasperoni (TU Berlin), Julia von Mende (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Brett Mommersteeg (HU Berlin) and the Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft e. V., presenting and discussing with the participants the thing-ethnographical method of my design-driven research “ROOMS, THINGS & BODIES,” an exploration into the liminal status of objects between the space of the room and the space of the body.
Speaker at the research colloquia “Raum für Experimente: Beispielsweise Design und Anthropologie” at Burg Halle on the 14. January 2023. The lecture “Ethnographic Design: Reflections from Theory and Practice,” a dialogue with architectural theorist and philosopher Lidia Gasperoni, discussed ethnography not only as a method for analyzing social space but also as a design method, through my work, based on the research of social and anthropological conditions as a means for the co-design of architectural spaces.
Speaker at the research colloquia at Berlin International on the 4. January 2023, sharing with its research community my design-driven doctoral research “ROOMS, THINGS & BODIES,” an exploration into the liminal state of objects between the space of the body and the space of the room.
Speaker at the seminar Design Matter by the Chair of Architectural Representation and Design CoLab with Prof. Ignacio Borrego at TU Berlin on 29. November 2022 dedicated to the design of a playground made from waste in collaboration with the city of Aarhus. The talk entitled “On Urban PlayGrounds” delved into the relationship between processes of urban transformation and typologies of urban playgrounds: from their instructional function, through their creative and empowering agency, to their actual potential for developing more sustainable ways of interacting with our natural urban environment.
Guest at the international video-based platform Arka dedicated to discussing and displaying architecture for everybody – not only for architects. In a series of four videos, Ane Cortzen and I discussed the possibilities of small spaces to support alternative ways of living and working today. Watch the videos here.
Speaker at the Design+Science Summer School Ljubljana 2022. In my lecture “At the Table or in Bed” I approach objects as devices for affective re-orientation and explore identity, intimacy, and social relations through two very different familiar objects: the table and the bed. Twin beds, round beds, day beds. Tables for two, extendable tables, turntables. Dates that start at the table and end in bed. Siestas, nightmares, negotiations, and banquets. What do objects do to human relations?
Speaker at CA2RE+ for..., the final multiplayer event of the CA2RE+ Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for a live demonstration of a CA²RE+ presentation and review concept through the discussion of my doctoral research dissertation “ROOMS, THINGS & BODIES,” an exploration into the liminal state of objects between the space of the body and the space of the room.
Speaker at CODEtalks by the Chair of Construction and Desing CODE with Prof. Ralf Pasel at TU Berlin on 10. June 2022, on the relations between domestic spaces and urban societies throughout Western history, part of the historical research part of my doctoral design-based research dissertation “ROOMS, THINGS & BODIES.”
Speaker at the seminar “On Transience” by The Forum for Architecture Theory at the Zürich Hochschule der Künste ZHdK on 11. and 12. December 2021 (postponed). The 2-days seminar focuses on temporary living solutions and ephemerality in architecture.
Host and speaker at the building site visit to Kurfurstenstraße 142, for ROUNDABOUT at TU Berlin on 10. November 2021, exploring the housing building designed for and with June14, just about completion.
Speaker at the workshop “Architekturethnographie zwischen Entwurf und Forschung” at the SFB 1265 Re-Figuration von Räumen at the Institut für Soziologie TU Berlin, presenting and discussing with the participants the thing-ethnographical method of my design-driven research “ROOMS, THINGS & BODIES,” an exploration into the liminal status of objects between the space of the room and the space of the body.
Co-curator of the exhibit Housing the Non-Human for Co-habitation by ARCH+ in silent green Kulturquartier Berlin on 5. June to 4. July 2021. It includes a selection of students’ projects developed at station.plus that explore human-animal relations in architecture.
Co-host and speaker at the urban exploration Quarantine and Biotopes for Co-habitation by ARCH+ on the area of the Teltow Canal in Berlin on 20. August 2021. It investigates the borders of its variety of natural and artificial biotopes: from the Schlosspark Lichterfelde –a closed natural reserve– to the Mäusebunker –once the largest animal testing facility in Europe. Listen to the podcast here.
Co-host and speaker at the urban exploration Quarantine and Biotopes for Co-habitation by ARCH+ on the area of the Teltow Canal in Berlin on 20. August 2021. It investigates the borders of its variety of natural and artificial biotopes: from the Schlosspark Lichterfelde –a closed natural reserve– to the Mäusebunker –once the largest animal testing facility in Europe. Listen to the podcast here.
Organising committee member and scientific monitoring staff at CA²RE I CA²RE+ Conference for Artistic and Architectural Doctoral Research - Hamburg 2021 online at HafenCity Hamburg on 24.-28. March 2021. It brings together senior and early-career researchers with diverse, open approaches to artistic and architectural research to improve research quality through intensive peer reviewing.
Organizing member and co-host of the 6th Parity Talks by the Parity Group at ETH Zürich on 10. March 2021. The question “WHAT’S GOOD?” is the departure point for a season of digital events across the five institutions, propelling further debates on gender, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Co-host of the workshop TABLE MANNERS of the 5th Parity Talks by the Parity Group at ETH Zürich on 7. October 2020. It challenges the unquestioned rules of the crit within architectural pedagogy and examined the specific physical, political, and emotional spaces they create.
Participant in the series 3 BOOKS by space-time.tv screened at the Copenhagen Architectural Festival on 23. April - 3. May 2020. The 3 books in this case are connected through the notion of co-habitation: with a lover, with a relative, or with your worse enemy.
Participant in WORKS+WORDS Biennale for Artistic Research in Architecture at KADK in Copenhagen in 2019 with the exhibit Lorza, published in its catalog WORKS + WORDS BIENNALE on November 2019. The Biennale presents contemporary European artistic research in architecture that combines the making of works with reflections in words.
Member of the CA2RE Community for Artistic and Architectural Research and a regular presenter of my design-driven doctoral research “ROOMS, THINGS & BODIES,” an exploration into the liminal state of objects between the space of the body and the space of the room, at its biannual conferences since 2019.
Participant in the PEP Practice-Based Doctorate Program at TU Berlin and a regular presenter of my design-driven doctoral research “ROOMS, THINGS & BODIES,” an exploration into the liminal state of objects between the space of the body and the space of the room, at its biannual symposia since 2019.
Speaker at the Master Seminar Strategien für nachhaltiges Plan und Bauen at the Chair of Prof. Claus Steffan at TU Berlin on 11. December 2018, depicting the design strategies of Kurfurstenstraße 142, a housing building designed for and with June14.
Speaker at the thematic dinner Stammtisch - Weekly Conversation Around The Kitchen Table for Designing Around The Kitchen Table by UdK Berlin at Floating University Berlin on 23. May 2018, talking about kitchens designed for and with Sam Chermayeff Office.
Speaker at the Workshop C – Generic Objects by NO-IMAGE at TU Berlin on 1. October 2017, in conversation with Niklas Fanelsa about (non)generic objects designed for and with June14 and Sam Chermayeff Office.
Speaker at Bikini Talks by the Chair of Prof. Jacob van Rijs at TU Berlin on 6. July 2017, unfolding the strategies of narration of diverse architectural projects developed collaboratively during the last years.
Speaker at Roundtalks by ROUNDABOUT at TU Berlin on 1. June 2017, presenting various objects and other creatures designed for and with June14 and Sam Chermayeff Office.
Speaker at the opening workshop of the academic year at UCLM Albacete The empire of the ephemeral for the Contemporary Culture Conference CROMA on 17.-18. October of 2013, exploring the potential of ephemeral interventions to solve complex architectural problems.