openstudio
Project information
submitted by
Yelta Köm
Co-Authors
Mona Mahall
Mentors
Prof. Mona Mahall, Yelta Köm
Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism
Degree programme:
Architecture (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2023
- Steubenstraße 20 - ERASE-SHOP
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8 - Hauptgebäude / Main Building
(002)
Contributors:
Alejandro Rufo, Andreea-Ioana Barbuceanu, Asma Halfaoui, Carl Fletcher, Carlos Diez, Denise Dilje, Dorian Beer, Felix Tepel, Hannah de Waal, Hedda Sandvik, İdil Öztürk, Jonas Felder, Josua Basedow, Kensia Klingert, Konrad Zaremba, Leonie Link, Luisa Viveca, Del Monaco Ornella, Negar Rahnamae, Otto Schlosser, Raul Andrés Castro Vasquez, Uliana Zhomnir, Benjamin Schönewolf, Hannah Marlene Aßmann-Staudt, María Fernanda Aguirre Fernández, Angeliki Politi, Sara Shunnar, Jacquline Herrmann, Eugenio Campagna, Qiuyun Xu, Raquel Mena Arroyo, Viktoria Wunder
Project description
openstudio is located in the expanding field of spatial practices, research, and critique. It offers and structures a collective learning environment at the intersection of architectural and artistic making and thinking, inviting students to engage in their own questions, ideas, and processes.
As openstudio is constituted of participants from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds, we use English as our common language. While paying attention to create and maintain an environment of mutual interest and care, we seek to broaden our understanding of "practice" through research in postcolonial, critical urban, and feminist theories, through conversation, aesthetic and media experimentation.
With a strong emphasis on processuality, the various works exhibited are still open and constantly evolving. Our aim is to establish critical practices that go beyond the confines of one discipline and one semester, reflecting on contexts, conditions, premises, and technologies, as well as our situatedness within a Western academic context. Here, the works exhibit different approaches at different stages and aim to act as a facilitator for discussions about the various relationships of architecture, art, technology, and the environment to colonial capitalism, social inequalities, and political repression.