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urn:uuid:aa19d8aa-6b5e-41b1-9cc1-023b93e4b41a 03 15 9783943253726 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Attending [to] Futures Matters of Politics in Design Education, Research, Practice 1 A01 Johanna Mehl Johanna Mehl (she/her) is a designer, scholar, and educator interested in the politics and relations that take shape through and around design practices. She holds a B.A. in Communication Design from the Niederrhein University of Applied Science and an M.A. in Art and Design Studies from the University of the Arts Folkwang, Essen. Besides her design, artistic and curatorial practice, she has taught in the fields of digital media, culture studies, and design theory at different design schools across Europe. She holds a research associate position at TU Dresden where she is a PhD candidate at the Chair for Digital Cultures researching the cultural history of environmental design practices. She is an editorial board member of the Design+Posthumanism Network and part of the research group Against Catastrophe. 2 B01 Carolin Höfler Prof. Dr. Carolin Höfler (she/her) is Professor of Design Theory and Research at Köln International School Design of TH Köln. She studied art history, modern German literature, and theater & film as well as architecture at universities in Cologne, Vienna, and Berlin. Since 2022, she is a member of the research training group “connecting – excluding: Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks”, a collaborative venture between the University of Cologne, the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and TH Köln, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Next to her spatial practice, she works in the team of “oza _studio for architecture and scenography” in Berlin. She is co-editor of the publication (with Philipp Reinfeld): Mit weit geschlossenen Augen. Virtuelle Realitäten entwerfen. Paderborn: Brill | Fink 2022 3 B06 Jacob Watson Aside from conducting research in the sociology of the senses—see his edited volume Sensing Collectives – Aesthetics and Politics Intertwined (transkript 2023)—Jacob Watson is a freelance translator and editor in Berlin. He studied philosophy and languages before obtaining his Diplôme avancé d’etudes françaises & traduction at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg (2002). His fields are philosophy and law, sociology and history, art and film, most notably as house translator for the law journal Ancilla Luris of Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Recent book translations are Work – the Last 1000 Years (Verso, 2018) by Andrea Komlosy and Eros, Lust and Sin by Franz X Eder (forthcoming). 4 A32 Jost Goldschmitt 5 A32 Philipp Pätzold 6 A32 Charlotte Rohde 01 eng 00 294 03 10 DES000000 10 DES004000 10 DES011000 10 ART027000 01 06 03 00 If “design” is the lens through which we glimpse into possible futures, this volume asks: What are the futures we are capable of imagining? As a subject of study, design is enabled and constrained by educational institutions and academic traditions. As a profession it is conditioned by systems of labor. As a creative activity it is shaped by what tools are programmed to do. Authors in this book challenge common ways of knowing, being, and doing in design with regard to the futures they facilitate and interrogate the role, responsibility, and potential of a plurality of design practices in confrontation with social and environmental crises. In this way, this volume does not only ask about designed futures, but also the futures of design: What are the consequences drawn from a critical examination of the histories and politics underlying normative renderings of design? How can we disrupt the perpetuation of biases and reification of social injustices? Self-reflexively engaging their own experiences and work, authors in this volume interrogate design in all its convoluted modalities: as activism, practice, discipline, way of knowing, field of study and set of objects. 04 00 FOREWORD: ATTENDING [TO] FUTURES Matters of Politics in Design Education, Research, Practice Johanna Mehl, Carolin Höfler PART 1: INSTITUTIONS I DISAGREE WITH YOU SUPER POLITELY A Reflection of Attending [to] Futures, One Year Later Johanna Mehl, Jiye Kim, Tomás Ignacio Corvalán Azócar, Sally Loutfy (IM)POSSIBLE EXITS, SILENCED AFFECTS Design Futures and Disciplinary Mobilities Imad Gebrael A LIST OF LONGINGS Luiza Prado RESONANCE AND ONTOLOGICAL DESIGN On Facilitating and Obstructing Transformative Teaching and Learning Experiences in Design Education Lisa Baumgarten DWELLINGS IN ETHERNITY Designing and Unraveling the Patadesign School Isabella Brandalise, Henrique Eira, Søren Rosenbak COMMITTED TO PRESENTS A Break at Attending [to] Futures Dorsa Javaherian, Abigail Schreider PART 2: HISTORIES POLITICAL ECONOMY PUSHES BACK How Structures of Power Govern our Design History Narratives Bonne Zabolotney DESIGNING THE DESIGNER Publicity and Immutability as Colonial and Capitalist Design Imperatives Chris Lee PATIO DESIGN AND CRAFTS Building Encounters Zoë Rush, Patio International TOWARDS A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE Art and Education at Black Mountain College Ina Scheffler EMBRACING EQUIVOCATIONS An Attempt to Attend When Design Has Never Been Modern Marius Förster EASTBOUND A Decolonial Approach to Relocating Vietnamese Design History ngọc triệu PART 3: SCENARIOS WICKED RITUALS OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN THINKING Carmem Saito, Frederick M. C. van Amstel, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Rafaela Angelon UNIVERSAL SPECIES SUFFRAGE Jaione Cerrato, Jon Halls DESIGN OF UNREST Right-wing Metapolitics – Paralogy – Knowledge Spaces – Chaos Tom Bieling, Frieder Bohaumilitzky, Anke Haarmann, Torben Körschkes MAKING ROOM FOR ABOLITION Lauren Williams OUT OF STOCK Notations on a Speculative Journal for Fashion and Design Edith Lázár MEXICO 44 AND LATINOFUTURISMO César Neri MARIAH Acts Of Resistance, Legally “Trespassing” in The Metaverse Adam DelMarcelle, Heather Snyder Quinn PART 4: NARRATIVES DESIGN NARRATIVES AND THE WHITE SPATIAL IMAGINARY Becky Nasadowski MATRIARCHAL DESIGN FUTURES A Collective Work in Progress Heather Snyder Quinn, Ayako Takase WEIRD PROBLEMS Rethinking Privileged Design? Sven Quadflieg CHANGING THE HOW First Steps Towards Critical Design Pedagogy Mira Schmitz AN OPTICAL DECOY FOR THE MACHINE Automatic Policing of Trademarks Online Chris Hamamoto, Federico Pérez Villoro VARIANT OF CYBERFEMINISM(S) Mindy Seu BIO NOTES adocs 01 adocs publishing 04 01 20231001 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253627 06 15 9783943253726 WORLD 09 adocs publishing 20 01 urn:uuid:c511f2fb-55d4-4685-b5b9-08df3b92166a 03 15 9783943253948 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Re/Embodied Data Ambiguities of Knowing 1 A01 Florian Conradi 2 A01 Michelle Christensen 3 A01 Cornelia Sollfrank 4 A01 Felix Stalder 01 eng 00 220 03 10 Tech066000 10 SOC055000 10 SOC068000 10 COM012000 10 ART015000 01 06 03 00 We live in times of comprehensive datafication. Digital technologies allow ever more aspects of our lives and the planet to be measured and analyzed. This creates new ways of knowing and doing. All too often however, this development leads to a systematic devaluation of forms of knowing that cannot be quantified and processed digitally. Digital data and lived worlds, technical measurements and embodied experiences are based on fundamentally different ways of perceiving the world. This publication addresses the relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge and uses three transdisciplinary dialogues between the arts and sciences to ask how these differences can be articulated and made productive.<break/>This book documents and elaborates upon a one-day conference held under the same title at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Technische Universität Berlin in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts in June 2024. As a practical attempt to make productive the ambiguities of knowing based on dis/embodied experience, three pairs of researchers/artists, who collaborated over an extended period of time in order to share different perspectives on their common subject and expand on the resulting ambiguities in an open discussion were brought together. The texts assembled here are the introductory statements of each of the contributors, as well as condensed, edited versions of discussions that were triggered by them.With contributions from: Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, Johannes Fritz, Ulrich Ott, Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Felix Stalder, Michelle Christensen, Cornelia Sollfrank and Florian Conradi. Moderations: i.a. Ines Weigand, Shusha Niederberger. 04 00 4 Introduction: Re/_Embodied Data and the Ambiguities of Knowing: Felix Stalder, Michelle Christensen, Florian Conradi, Cornelia Sollfrank Dialogue 1 - Quantification of Breathing 18 Breathing Data: Cornelia Sollfrank 48 On Yogic Breathing:Rapid Technological Progress and Mindful Self-Regulation: Ulrich Ott 60 Discussion: On Technology-Supported Self-care, Biofeedback, Self-knowledge and Non-duality Dialogue 2 - More-than-Human Technoecologies 78 Critique as Design – Posthuman, Postwestern, Postdiscipline: Michelle Christensen and Florian Conradi 111 E'_TOME – _A Proposal of Moving Curveward: Anani Dodji Sanouvi 134 Vernacular Computationalities – Cosmogony as a New Paradigm for Design: Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou 146 Discussion: On Vernacular Knowledge, Epistemic Diversity, and Nonlinear Futures Dialogue 3 – Wildlife and Data 162 Re-relating the Technosphere to the Biosphere. A Wilding Project a Planetary Context: Felix Stalder 178 The Story of the Northern Bald Ibis: From Extinction to Conservation: Johannes Fritz 196 Discussion: On Technologies, Numbers, Values, Emotions, Hope, and Unexpected Collaboration 210 Biographies adocs 01 adocs publishing 04 01 20260202 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253887 06 15 9783943253948 WORLD 09 adocs publishing 20 01 urn:uuid:bbbf48d2-6e4d-4032-8243-6c8d26e4a264 03 15 9783943253641 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Sawt, Bodies, Species Sonic Pluralism in Morocco 1 A01 Gilles Aubry Gilles Aubry is a Swiss artist, musician, and researcher. His work explores sound and listening as embodied, social, aesthetic, and ecological practice. He uses field recording, performance, mixed media, and collaborative interventions to creates art installations, films, music compositions, and live performances. He holds a PhD in social anthropology and teaches at UDK Berlin. 2 B01 Anna Richter 3 A32 Katharina Hetzeneder 4 A32 Xavier Tulleuda Nieto 5 A32 Raphaël Bastide 6 A32 Wei Huang 7 A32 Lucas Le Bihan 8 A32 Walid Bouchouchi 9 A32 Jérémy Landes 01 eng 00 300 03 10 MUS015000 10 MUS032000 10 SOC019000 10 SOC053000 01 06 03 00 How do the Moroccan sound archives of the writer Paul Bowles from the 1970s sound today with the musicians of that time? What does an earthquake in Agadir have to do with a Japanese science fiction film? What sound do stones have? And what do we learn about environmental pollution by listening to the agar agar algae?<break/>Drawing on critical sound studies, ethnographic research, and artistic practice, this book offers multivoiced narratives about acoustic practices in Morocco. Gilles Aubry‘s research on the sonic dimensions of our environment, ranges from animal, plant, and mineral voices to ritual practices and technological infrastructures. The Arabic word for these voices in the physical but also in the technological sense is sawt. In collaborations with local musicians, artists and scientists, Aubry explores in experimental settings listening as the basis of „sonic pluralism“.<break/>The dense descriptions of the multidisciplinary research are complemented by series of photographies. Via QR codes, the text is linked to audiovisual essays and compositions by the artist. The layout of the book takes up this close linking of digital and analog materials. 04 00 INTRODUCTION I. BETWEEN COLONIAL AND ETHICAL NOISE The French Speech Archives, rwais sound, and aural mediation II. LISTEN, THAT'S US! Responses from Tafraout to the Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection (1959) III. SALAM GODZILLA The 1960 Agadir earthquake, technocratic listening, and the plural unsound field IV. A WASTED BREATH INSIDE A BALLOON Popular Sufi healing, postcolonial bodies, and sonic pluralism V. STONESOUND Living with stones, lithic affect, and aural co-domestication VI. ATLANTIC RAGAGAR Seaweed, pollution, and the voice of the sea Acknowledgments Video and Sound Works Bibliography Image Index adocs 01 adocs publishing 04 01 20230201 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253597 06 15 9783943253641 WORLD 09 adocs publishing 20 01 urn:uuid:41c011c4-b12e-4f51-8f48-8ffba4f32697 03 15 9783943253955 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Stretching Materialities Negotiating Boundaries in Exhibition Research 1 A01 Clemens Winkler 01 eng 00 384 03 10 ART006000 10 ART009000 10 ART026000 10 SOC026000 01 06 03 00 Stretching Materialities is an experimental approach to rethinking exhibitions in terms of »active matter:« not as a presentation of material knowledge and practices per se, but as an interactive and participatory research approach to new forms of activity emerging from the poiesis of the material. The interdisciplinary exhibition by the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« at Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T) Berlin experimented with curatorial processes, the existing environment and its material-energetic resources, sound performances, the interweaving of physical and virtual matter, and a constantly changing exhibit.<break/>With highlights such as a physical cloud in the middle of the exhibition space, virtual tours through six unique VR floors,<break/>experiencing decaying rocks, inhabitable woven fabrics, or haptically enhanced hanboks as a special wardrobe, visitors were entangled as active contributors and recipients in an ongoing process. This publication documents the exhibition’s theoretical foundations, the process itself, and valuable insights gained. 04 00 9 Introduction 21 Stretching Practices: Clemens Winkler INTERMEZZO 1 61 STRETCHING MATERIALS AS A SOUND INSTALLATION: Claudia Blümle in conversation with Anna Kubelík and Peter Fratzl 73 DEVICE BY SABINE HUZIKIEWIZ : Claudia Blümle 73 77 Stretching Virtuality: Christian Stein INTERMEZZO 2 107 THE ALCHEMY OF ELEMENTS: FUSING THE ORGANIC WITH THE INORGANIC : Nina Samuel in conversation with Lena Dues 115 SCATTERED DIFFUSION: Natalija Miodragović in conversation with Maria Mascha Kobylenko 121 Exhibition 147 Stretching Spaces: Natalija Miodragović INTERMEZZO 3 191 BODY MATTER LABS: Natalija Miodragović in conversation with Lara Ladik 195 ANTENNAE—WILLOWALK: Natalija Miodragović 198 THE SPATIAL OBSERVATIONO F THOUGHT : Natalija Miodragović in conversationwith Jean-Daniel Berclaz 202 IMMERSION INTO THE MICROSCALE : Natalija Miodragović in conversation with Michaela Eder 207 Stretching Time: N ina Samuel INTERMEZZO 4 235 THE TEXTURE OF TIME: A JOURNEY THROUGH STONES, TOUCH, AND ACTIVE MATTER: Nina Samuel in conversation with Mohsen Makki 245 BREATHING STONES: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF MICROBIOLOGY, GEOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION: Nina Samuel in conversation with Anna Gorbushina 253 ABOUT CLOUDS, ROBOTS, AND THE SEA Podium discussion with Babette Werner, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, and Clemens Winkler 265 Process 315 Stretching Senses through the Haptic Hanbok: Yoonha Kim INTERMEZZO 5 343 STRETCHING SENSES SCHOOL: Maxime Le Calvé and Yoonha Kim 351 FROM PERFORMATIVE MEDIATION TO DANCING CACO3: Claudia Blümle in conversation with Kaaren Beckhof 365 STRETCHING MATERIALITIES IN BUENOS AIRES Christian Stein in conversation with Chana Boekle 372 Image Credits 376 Biographies 380 Acknowledgments adocs 01 adocs publishing 04 01 20251218 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253870 06 15 9783943253955 WORLD 09 adocs publishing 20 01 urn:uuid:7ab08906-f8de-4816-a3c2-2cbcf9c5b45e 03 15 9783943253818 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Zaudern ums Gemeinwohl Produktive Missverständnisse in der kooperativen Stadtentwicklung 1 A01 Rebecca Wall Rebecca Wall studierte Architektur und Urban Design in Weimar und Hamburg. Als Urbane Praktikerin arbeitet und forscht sie an der Schnittstelle von aktivistischer, künstlerischer und planerischer Stadtproduktion. Sie ist ehemalige Mitarbeiterin der ZusammenStelle am Rathausblock Kreuzberg, seit 2022 im Vorstand des Urbane Praxis e.V. Berlin und gründete 2020 das Bündnis feuer&flamme mit Paula Erstmann und Mascha Fehse. 2 A01 Felix Marlow Felix Marlow studierte Architektur und Europäische Ethnologie in Hamburg und Berlin und interessiert sich für Städtebau als Teil solidarisierender Machenschaften. Felix war Mitarbeiter der WERKSTATT Haus der Statistik, ist weiterhin Mitglied der ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG und bei Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen sowie im Mietshäuser Syndikat aktiv. 3 A01 Ignacio Farias Ignacio Farías ist Professor für Stadtanthropologie am Institut für Europäische Ethnographie und Direktor des Georg-Simmel-Zentrums für Stadtforschung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Er arbeitet an der Schnittstelle von Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Wissenschafts- und Technologiestudien und Urbanistik. Ignacio ist daran interessiert, mit der Ethnografie als einer inventiven Praxis der Stadtgestaltung zu experimentieren. 01 ger 00 224 03 10 ARC01000 10 ARC00900 10 SCI075000 01 06 03 00 Kooperative Stadtentwicklung ist ein Schlagwort der Stunde. Es steht für das Streben nach einer gerechteren, einer gemeinwohlorientierten Stadt. In neuen Partnerschaften – Public-Civic-Partnerships – arbeiten Akteur*innen aus Politik und Verwaltung mit Akteur*innen aus der Zivilgesellschaft zusammen. Gegensätzliche Praktiken der Stadtgestaltung führen in diesen Kooperationen zu Missverständnissen, Kontroversen und Unsicherheiten.<break/> <break/>In diesem Buch erforschen die Autor*innen die Prozesse zweier außergewöhnlicher Experimente der kooperativen Stadtentwicklung in Berlin: Das Haus der Statistik und der Rathausblock Kreuzberg. Dafür laden sie die beteiligten Akteur*innen zum Zaudern ein. Wenn Zaudern zur Methode wird, stützen Ambivalenzen die Zusammenarbeit, ersetzen Unsicherheiten die Konflikte, werden Kontroversen zwischen den Partner*innen sichtbar. Das Buch präsentiert zugespitzte Thesen zur kooperativen Stadtentwicklung, ein Glossar der Missverständnisse sowie methodologische Reflexionen zur künstlerisch-ethnographischen Forschungsmethode und ihrer Einbettung in stadtanthropologische Diskurse. Für alle, die sich in der kooperativen Stadtentwicklung engagieren oder diese forschend begleiten wollen. Für eine gerechte Stadt der Vielen. 04 00 INHALT Auftakt 17 Zaudern als Methode 39 Glossar der Missverständnisse 77 Rollen Begriffe Fünf Takes zur kooperativen Stadtentwicklung 165 Take 1: Initiative Take 2: Missverständnisse Take 3: Kooperations-Logik Take 4: Personalisierung Take 5: Scheitern Experimentelle Modellprojekte 187 für eine gemeinwohl orientierte Stadt Appendix 205 Danksagung Literaturverzeichnis Über die Autor*innen adocs 01 adocs publishing 04 01 20241030 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253801 06 15 9783943253818 WORLD 09 adocs publishing 20 01