practices and politics of representation 2026
Project information
submitted by
Lea Maria Wittich
Co-Authors
Irem Aslanbas, William Barrett, Berk Bulut, Natália Bosková, Nicole Brejchová, Viktória Cigerová, Nina Cicmancová, Eylül Aydın Şimşek, Jule Gaerisch, Ilja Guthmann, Richard Hruskoci, Aleksandra Ilczuk, Anastasiia Iurgasheva, Serap Kaçmaz, Frederick Kubin, Jakub Labedz, Jette Luckau, Eva Müller, Lukas Jann Niefer, Maria Neumann, Ben Patzina, Ambar Luna Quintanar, Julius Scholz, Marlene Sewtz, Campbell Shaw, Nils Erik Spettmann, Gustav Steck, Carlotta Suhr, Miraç Yağmur Uçar, Katharina Vogel, Daniel Juma Wandere, Isabelle Winsor-Maloney
Mentors
Mona Mahall, Jana Mangold, Yelta Köm, Arijit Bhattacharyya, Lea Wittich
Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism,
Art and Design
Degree programme:
Architecture (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
MediaArchitecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (english) (Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)),
Product Design (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)),
Digital Technologies in Architecture and Design (Master of Science (M.Sc.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2026
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8 - Hauptgebäude / Main Building
(Raum 004/021)
Available during summaery's regular opening hours
Participation in the Bauhaus.Modules
Project description
The exhibition presents the ongoing processes of courses and thesis projects that have evolved during the semester through a collective framework. Drawing on multiperspective and transcultural knowledges from architecture, art, and theory, the works engage in spatial research and share a common aim: to question dominant forms of spatial, artistic, and epistemological imagination and representation.
During the semester, we pursued inquiries into the history of fifty years of the International Bauhaus Colloquium, the representation of large projects and infrastructures through architectural media, and the exhibition as a spatial, material, and performative mediator of research. These investigations raised broader questions: How do we position ourselves as researchers and/or designers today – and what forms of collective understanding, institutional practice, and public exchange do we develop for the future? How do we understand our processes as an expanded architectural practice?
What is shown —works, fragments, and finds— are traces of processes, shaped through regular interaction between an international and interdisciplinary group of participants, who adopt various and shifting roles to engage with distinct approaches, methodologies, and practices. This collaborative learning format is based on active participation and contributions from all involved, encouraging reflexive and critical practices, including archival research, image theory, and spatial translation.