Dr. Mara Trübenbach

Forschung/Lehre/Praxis (Auswahl)

Seit 04/2024       Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Professur Landschaftsarchitektur und -planung

2020 - 2023        Stipendiatin des Marie Sklodoswka-Curie Fellowship im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes (EU Horizon 2020) 'TACK Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and Its Ways of Knowing' an der Oslo School of Architecture and Design

2017 - 2020        Mitarbeit im Büro Station C23, Leipzig

2013 - 2017        Werkstudentin & Praktika in verschiedenen Architekturbüros (u.a. Wien: Coop Himmelb(l)au; Wien: SWAP Architects; Köln: Ortner&Ortner Baukunst; London: Chapman Taylor)

Ausbildung

2020 - 24            Promotion “Material Dramaturgy: Tracing Trails of Dust in the Architectural Design Process” | Oslo School of Architecture and Design

06 - 09/2019       BauhausLAB Residency | Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

2016 - 18            MSc Architecture | Bauhaus-University Weimar

2017                   Semester Abroad | Technical University Vienna

2012 - 15            BA Architecture | University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf

Veröffentlichungen

Trübenbach, Mara. Forthcoming spring 2024. “Sculptural Puzzles: A Conversation Essay About Model-Making, Rituals and Material Literacy in Architecture.” In Meister, Anna-Maria, Fankhänel, Teresa, Schubert, Anna Luise, Beißwanger, Lisa and Dähne, Chris (Eds.). Are You a Model? On an Architectural Medium of Spatial Exploration. Berlin: JOVIS Verlag. 

Trübenbach, Mara. 2024. “Māterial Dramaturgy: Tracing Trails of Dust in the Architectural Design Process”. PhD thesis, Oslo School of Architecture and Design. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3120720

Trübenbach, Mara. 2023. “The Second Skin. Sensory and Experiential Knowledge in Performing Arts and Fashion Design Practice.” In Jākobsone, Liene, Köring, Dietmar, Sommeregger, Eva, Suhanova, Dina, and Traumane, Māra. (Eds.). Publication of symposium proceedings: (Building) New Perspectives through Practice-led Research in Art, Design and Architecture. Symposium Proceedings. LMDA, Art Academy of Riga. 

Trübenbach, Mara. 2023. “No Body, Never Mind: The Entanglement of How Architects Construct Imagination.” In Avermaete, Tom, Buchert, Margitta, Gosseye, Janina and Havik, Klaske (Eds.). Ten Perspectives on Tacit Knowledge. TACK Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Pp. 42–57. 

Trübenbach, Mara and Marianna Czwojdrak. 2022. “Scale in Passing: Re-calibrating

Narrowness Through Spatial Intervention.” In Artifact: Journal of Design Practice 9 (1-2): Pp. 27.1–27.17. doi.org/10.1386/art_00027_7

Trübenbach, Mara. 2021. “Presence, Presentation & Representation: Between Model Making and Mediation of Material in Architectural Practice during Covid-19.” In Fernández Guardado, Marta, and Ballestrem, Matthias (Ed.). CA²RE / CA²RE+ Hamburg. Conference for Artistic and Architectural Research - Book of Proceedings. HafenCity Universität Hamburg: Pp. 290-299. doi.org/10.34712/142.18

Trübenbach, Mara. 2019. “Mapping the Crisscross: The Power of Outsider Networks.” In: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (Ed.). Handle with Care Unpacking a Bulky Table. Leipzig: Spector Books, pp. 44–51. 

Bauhaus Lab. 2019. “A Table Design by Marcel Breuer. Tracing the Multifaceted Lives of an Object.” In: Bauhaus Magazine issue 11 - Centenary. Leipzig: Spector Books, pp. 174–79. 

Vorträge (Auswahl)

Māterial Dramaturgy: Tracing Trails of Dust in the Architectural Design Process 
*Cluster of Excellence ‘Matters of Activity’, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
*Berlin, GER
*03/2024

Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge 
*Architectural Association School of Architecture
*London, UK
*02/2024

Māterial Dramaturgy: Celebrating Tenderness in the Architectural Design Process 
*MA Spiel und Objekt at Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch
*Berlin, GER
*01/2024

Unpacking Hermia
*Final TACK Conference ‘Tacit Knowledge in Architecture’ at ETH Zurich
*Zurich, CH
*06/2023

Associations, memories and trust: Material dramaturgy as constructive criticism for future compositions in architecture 
*International Symposium 2022 ‘(BUILDING) NEW PERSPECTIVE through Practice-led Research in Art, Design and Architecture’
*Riga, LAT
*11/2022

Sculptural puzzle: A conversation essay about model making, rituals and material literacy in architecture 
*International Conference TU Darmstadt 2022 ‘Are You a Model?’ 
*Darmstadt, GER
*11/2022

Methods of Research 
*Pre-diploma Course spring 2022
*Oslo School of Architecture and Design, NO
*02/2022

Sculptural puzzle. Model making as a collaborative process in contemporary architectural practice 
*Storbykonferansen 2021 ‘Urban Crisis’
*Oslo, NO
*10/2021 

Motion of Scales
in collaboration with Marianna Czwojdrak
*NORDES Conference 2021 ‘Matters of Scale’
*Kolding, DK
*08/2021

Presence, presentation & representation: Between model making and mediation of material in architectural practice during Covid-19
*CA2RE+ Conference 2021 ‘Reflection’
*Online/ Hamburg, GER
*03/2021

Emigrée – London contexts 1930s
*Collecting Architecture: Warburg Models
*Oslo School of Architecture and Design, NO
*09/2020

Handle with care: unpacking a bulky table
in collaboration with Bauhaus LAB 2019
*Bauhaus Conference ‘Collecting Bauhaus'
*Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, GER
*12/2019

Nets stretched into the unknown: Bauhaus women in British exile.
*Design History Society Annual Conference ‘The Cost of Design’
*Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
*09/2019

Nets stretched into the unknown: Bauhaus women in British exile.
*Isokon Gallery, London, UK
*07/2019

(Gruppen-)Ausstellungen

OBJECT Hermia part of 'Warburg Models'
*AA School, London, UK
*01 - 03/2024
*KBW, Hamburg, GER
*11/2023
*Guttormsgaards Arkiv, Blaker, NO
*05 - 06/2021

OBJECT Hermia part of 'Unspoken Knowledge' 
*ETH Zurich, CH
*06/2023

SUMMER SCHOOL Re-enacting Tacit Knowledge  
together with TACK Communities of Tacit Knowledge in Architecture
*Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
*09/2021

INSTALLATION Motion of Scales 
in collaboration with Marianna Czwojdrak
* NORDES Conference 2021, Kolding, DK
*08/2021

MASTER’S THESIS Nets Stretched into the Unknown. Bauhaus women in British Exile with the context of the exhibition ‘Notes on Architecture ‘I’m Here’’
*Architekturgalerie, Berlin, GER
*07/2021
*M Books, Weimar, GER
*10/2021

CURATION & DESIGN Handle with Care: Unpacking a Bulky Table
in collaboration with BauhausLAB 2019
*Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, GER
*09/2019 – 01/2020
OBJECT Take Away as part of ‘Für Draufsetzer’

*Chamber of Crafts, Düsseldorf, GER
*10/2014