WORKSHOP REPLAYS
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w.1.9 Writing Writing
date: september 26th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
Writing Writing is about writing the mechanisms through which we write: designing new technologies, protocols, positions, and forms of authority from which writing, knowledge, and worlds can emerge.
moving between fiction, documentation, bureaucracy, publishing, and speculation, the workshop pays particular attention to how authorship is constructed, managed and received. who is able to write? what is the gravity ascribed to their writing? together, we will experiment with rewriting these mechanisms, asking how changing the gravity (and expectations) of writing changes what can be written, with what authority and to what end.
guest speaker: Raafat Majzoub is an architect, author, artist and founding director of the Institute for Worldmaking based in Lebanon. his work negotiates the territory of reality through literature, visual arts and public interventions, inventing and advocating accessible utopic alternatives and possible scenarios. in 2025, he served as visiting lecturer in MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology program and as research fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. he is editor-in-chief of the Dongola Architecture Series and co-editor of several volumes on architecture and cultural production.
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w.1.8 speculative hyperobjects
date: august 29th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
how do we write the ungraspable? in this session, we will explore how we are already, always in intimate relations with hyperobjects– “viscous”* entities that are too big to see/touch/know all at once… like Plastic, nuclear, global warming, Styrofoam and ‘artificial intelligence’ technologies. in this writing workshop, we will speculate-with Morton’s definition of the hyperobject and Glissant’s conceptualization of opacity. together, we will craft sensorially-oriented language for these incomprehensible things which shape how we be/become/belong-in ecologies.
thinking-with: *Timothy Morton, Édouard Glissant
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w.1.7 underland as praxis
date: july 25th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
“The underland is vital to the material structures of contemporary existence, as well as to our memories, myths and metaphors. It is a terrain with which we daily reckon and by which we are daily shaped.”* in this making-as-thinking** workshop, you are invited to conceptualize an inversion of your habitual orientation to place, to sensitize your intellectual + creative lens to ‘invisible’ deep time structures, and to shape a small object that encapsulates your ongoing-relation with a chosen site of investigation. our shared praxis during this time will also involve thinking critically about the agentic-matters that we invite into our making.
thinking-with: *Robert Macfarlane, **errantry media lab, Karen Barad, Mary Shelley
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w.1.6 an ethic of sand
date: june 27th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
understanding sand is not dissimilar to the experience of trying to hold it tightly in our hands: the stronger our grasp and certainties about it, the more it slips through our fingers. sand is matter erodes the social constructions + scaffolding with which design(ing) often manifests, and is predicated on. in this workshop, we will sit with the uncertainty + malleability that sand challenges us to think through, opening up questions about how to collaborate instead of “use” materials in a creative, design and/or architectural practice.
we invite you to come with a material you are thinking and/or making-with. the workshop will utilize discursive, design and ecological lenses as points of emergence for creative research.
thinking-with: Ariella Azoulay, Stacy Alaimo, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, William Cronon
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w.1.5 making living room
date: may 30th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
from the familiar to the abstract, the concept of ‘living room’ has long traversed cultural + linguistic boundaries. inspired by Ruth Asawa’s sculpting practice, June Jordan’s poetry + photography after visiting Lebanon, and Henrike Naumann’s history-furniture installations, we will consider the living room as a site of geo-political entanglements. our primary lens of analysis for this workshop will be the medium of photography, and participants will be invited to make prototypes from speculative prompts. how does the domestic move within + beyond the home?
thinking-with: June Jordan, Ruth Asawa, Henrike Naumann
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w.1.4 scaffolding-of-mind
date: april 25th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
scaffolding-of-mind is an awareness framework that softens us into a more relational act of reading, writing, and speculative making. in this workshop, we will think-with the worldmaking practices of June Jordan + James Baldwin, with a close reading of Harlem as a site for re-designing temporal/spatial relations. through the fields of architecture, urban planning, and fiction writing, we will thread the structural connections between our psyches and the built environments that shape us + are shaped by us.
thinking-with: James Baldwin, June Jordan
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w.1.3 research(ing) as curiosity
date: march 28th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
for intellectual wanderers interested in the art + spirit of research, where intuition, methodology, and practice intersect to create new pathways for thought-full storytelling. we will emphasize transdisciplinary strategies for creative and independent scholarly work, with a focus on citational politics as a restorative practice. how can research become a form of listening, activated through sensing, reading, and writing? how can research restore our forgotten/erased intellectual lineages?
thinking-with: Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Sara Ahmed, Max Liboiron, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, errantry media lab
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w.1.2 rituals of technology
date: february 28th at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
how do we intentionally dialogue with technologies? this session will investigate historical + contemporary case studies of technological inventions that have re-shaped arts, ethics, senses, and psyches. we will explore the ‘viscosity’ of particular technologies and their immeasurable + infinitely tentacular impacts on our worlds. what a typewriter is to poetry; what the internet is to knowledge; what celluloid is to filmmaking.
thinking-with: Robert Duncan, Timothy Morton, Ana Vaz, Donna Haraway
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w.1.1 archival materialisms
date: january 31st at 18:00 CET | duration: 2.5 hours
discover how to deepen your creative practice through the material reading of archival research, a process that holds the ability to challenge our assumptions around knowledge and its production. focusing on archival literacy beyond the academic scope, we will introduce conceptual frameworks for approaching the future-past-present through material, memory, and media. how do we read archives with a heightened perception of their material being(s)?
thinking-with: Saidiya Hartman, June Jordan, Etel Adnan
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