In this recorded panel discussion from 13 March 2025, held during the exhibition 'Venice Be Real' by Stefanie Bürkle, the panelists discuss how tourism and digital platforms are transforming Venice. Topics include the impact of Airbnb on housing and everyday life, the role of Google Maps and Instagram in shaping tourist flows, how the city is designed for visitors, and local activism. The discussants are Prof. Stefanie Bürkle, Prof. Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Dr. Nicolas Zehner, Christina Hecht and Simon C. Pohl.

In dieser Episode von Space Oddity spricht Host Christopher Heidecke mit dem ehemaligen Projektmitarbeiter (A01) und assoziierten Humangeographen Dr. Lucas Pohl (HU Berlin) über die Zukunftsnarrative Bangkoks angesichts der existenziellen Bedrohung durch den steigenden Meeresspiegel im Anthropozän. Von der Topographie Bangkoks, über die Politik der Administration bis hin zu „anthropozänen“ Verteidigungslinien, sogenannten „Sacrified Zones“ und der Konkretisierung von Raumfiguren am Fallbeispiel.

Mit Taz-Redakteur Jonas Wahmkow tauscht sich Host Christopher Heidecke in dieser Episode von Space Oddity über Praktiken des Journalismus- und Wissenschaftsbetriebes aus und gemeinsam sprechen sie außerdem über Jonas' Aufenthalt und Eindrücke am SFB 1265 im Oktober 2024 und loten ferner Transfer- sowie Vernetzungsmöglichkeiten aus.

In the 24th episode of Space Oddity the famous anthropologist Arjun Appadurai (NYU) talks about The Territory of Affect. This talk was the opening keynote of the 6th International Conference "Conflicts in Space – Spatial Conflicts" of the CRC 1265 from October 10-11th at the main building of the TU Berlin.

In der 23. Episode berichten SFB-Sprecherin Prof. Martina Löw (B03: Smart People) und SFB-Doktorandin Eva Korte (A05: Zuhause) von ihren Eindrücken und Beobachtungen in Nairobi, Kenia. Mit Multiple Spatialities fokussiert der SFB 1265 die Pluralität und Gleichzeitigkeit unterschiedlicher räumlich-kultureller Figurationen spezifischer Gesellschaften. Am Beispiel Nairobis thematisieren wir die Konstitution des öffentlichen Raumes, die Dominanz des Bahnraumes, das Schicksal der Kikuyu sowie zentrale Unterschiede im Home-Making und in der Zeitlichkeit im Vergleich zu deutschen Gesellschaften.

In this episode, Jeannine Teichert, Postdoc at the University of Paderborn and visiting researcher at CRC1265, talks to research associate Zoé Perko about the unique home-making processes of displaced Ukrainians amid the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion. They explore the relationship between home-making practices and the concept of "shuttle refuge", where Ukrainians move back and forth between their home and host countries, navigating physical and digital spaces of (in)security.

In dieser Ausgabe tauschen sich Gastwissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Oliver Frey (Hochschule Nürtingen-Geislingen) und Methodenlab- sowie Teilprojektleiterin Dr. Séverine Marguin (C06, SFB 1265) über Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen des interdisziplinären Arbeitens im akademischen Umfeld und das metaphorische interdisziplinäre Tanzen im soziologischen Streitgespräch aus.

In this episode, and in the context of our summer school "Power and Space," we talk with four activists about spaces of resistance, and we hear from two researchers about their reactions to what we have been discussing. The activists share their stories, lessons learned, and thoughts on everyday activism. Together with our colleagues, we try to understand how actors create spaces that are used as tools of resistance, and how these spaces are formed through social (collective) action, communication and networking, where relationships of solidarity and cohesion emerge.

“An Atlas of Spatial Figures" is the title of the forthcoming publication (to be released in autumn 2024) by CRC 1265 subproject PIs Ignacio Farias and Silke Steets. The book gathers over 40 stories of CRC 1265 researchers discovering new spatial figures in addition to the four previously identified dominant spatial figures. For the book project, they collaborated with Viennese artist Nikolaus Gansterer in multimodal workshops. This episode is an excerpt from a performance lecture, which took place at the international symposium "Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene" at the ICI Berlin in October 2023. It provides insights into the concept of the book and two performed "vectors of refiguration" through two stories and the spatial figures they express.

In this episode, we relive our latest international symposium, which took place on October 5-6 at the ICI Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, with our two organizers, Silke Steets and Ignacio Farías, and brief statements from four keynote speakers.