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When a chance conversation between a researcher and an artist sparks the idea for an exhibition, academic research gets to meet artistic expression. A year later, the Spatial Conflicts exhibition brought together 14 international artists to explore pressing questions about migration, identity, environmental destruction, and resistance through different mediums. Set in Berlin’s BHROX pavilion, the exhibition explored the spatial tensions that shape our world.

In a process-based multimedia workshop, Francesca Ceola and Simone Rueß aimed to ground broad, abstract concepts of translocality, transnationalism and hybrid, space-oriented cultural structures. A constantly changing room set-up with three parts challenged participants to think creatively and imaginatively. Thinking with the audio-visual work "Liquid Homes" by Camilo Bravo Molano and the keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Magdalena Nowicka, participants from various disciplines were invited to explore the spatialities of migrants, transnational affect, and translocal homes - both individually and collectively, and with the help of graphic prompts, language and performative explorations.

For certain types of work, it is necessary to immerse yourself in it entirely and not think about anything else for a period of time – the writing process for a dissertation or habilitation is surely one of them. It was precisely for this reason that twelve doctoral and postdoctoral students and associated doctoral candidates from the SFB retreated for a few days of intensive work in Klein Glien, Brandenburg…

In this blog post, Simon Pohl and Linda Hering offer insights into their experiences and takeaways from the workshop held in November at the CRC: “Varieties of Refiguration,” organized by Stefan Kirchner and Nina Baur. While Simon plunges into the discussion of how to extend the theory of refiguration, Linda identifies salient throughlines connecting contributions from the wide range of topics presented at the workshop.

How do conflicts unfold in relation to and within space? In the second of a two-part blog post, we present some of the answers to this critical question given by scholars from a range of disciplines and research projects at the CRC's annual conference in October.

How do conflicts over and within space unfold? In this first of a two-part blog post, we highlight some of the answers give by scholars from various disciplines and research projects gave to this critical question at the CRC’s annual conference in October.

In June 2024, four CRC projects brought their empirical cases to the “Comparison Clinic”. Together with guest researcher Jennifer Robinson and CRC PIs Séverine Marguin and Silke Steets, this workshop invited the participants to explore the prospects of comparative analysis. This report summarizes the discussions and highlights how valuable comparisons are for the development of concepts such as refiguration.

By creating maps, researchers can gain insights into the social and cultural dimensions of urban, rural, hybrid, and mediated landscapes. Mapping can also be used to analyze historical changes, and to monitor ongoing changes and future developments. The objective of our workshop was to create space for transfer and exchange, especially about the interdisciplinary experience and body of knowledge produced in the first phase of the CRC. The different disciplinary backgrounds of the speakers demonstrate the transdisciplinary potential of mapping methods for the research of socio-spatial phenomena.