LolMyThesis. If I had to summarize my thesis in one sentence, I would say that urban development is, unsurprisingly, being carried out as business as usual, aka displacing the poor […]
LolMyPaper While existing studies primarily celebrate Stuttgart as a successful case study of the application of climatology in urban planning, the papers I have written and am writing instead make […]
LolMyThesis. The themes of my thesis in a nutshell: Even when countries agree to open their borders, not everyone gets the same access—many barriers remain, but people often find creative […]
Postdoc’ing at the CRC. If I had to summarise my current research interest, I would say: India is now really getting going with digitalization, including banking, biometric data, soft power, […]
LolMyThesis. The working title of my thesis is “Of Figures and Fictions. The Strategic Action Field around Airbnb in Cape Town and Berlin”. In a nutshell, one of my key […]
LolMyThesis. I analyze the links between filming locations, the spaces captured within the television series, and the social imaginaries conveyed to understand the refiguration of Francophone West African series. It’s […]
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.
