By Timo Rossmann There is a useful device in my office: a see‑through partitioning wall, installed during the onset of COVID‑19. Once meant to block viral exchange in this shared office, it now serves as a surface for sticky notes. On one of them, I wrote down a brief quote. “If research systems become tooRead more "‘Devicing’ Inquiries Into the Future of Biomedicine"

In June, Prof. Dr. Andrea Ballestero visited the Research Training Group (RTG) and held a public lecture as well as a hands-on workshop for the doctoral students. The stay was part of a longer-term cooperation between the RTG and the University of Southern California (USC), as part of which Andrea …

On the 4th of December, the Wednesday bar 'Wetter Mi.' at SCAPE° was all about the sea. Scientists from the DFG-funded research training group 'Fixing Futures', the artists' collective 'may_Fly___' and a performance collective from the 'Performative Arts in Social Fields' degree programme formed …

‘We are doomed to repair.’ With these words the journal for architecture and urbanism ARCH+ introduces the project “The Great Repair” in its 250th issue. In two ARCH+ issues, an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and a connected education program, The Great Repair invites us to think about the importance of repair practices in light of escalating socio-ecological crises on a planetary scale as a counternarrative to growth-driven ideas about a green capitalist transformation. In a similar vein, literature in the social sciences, humanities, and Science and Technology Studies (STS) increasingly engages with the concept of repair as a vital and potentially transformative practice for fixing futures, shifting the focus from one-size-fits all solutions to the socio-material embeddedness of transformation processes in the everyday practices of repair and maintenance.