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GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-05-18T12:50:27Z

MHalkort: added visit to Narva Venice

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / Visit to Narva Venice
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day
==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology/Elemental Perspectives (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P1DwGrEWz3HpTbfr9932CYUuRyl5atNK?usp=drive_link

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* [https://leida.artun.ee/en/issues/community-of-agents/in-praise-of-legwork Legwork]

* [[Feralatlas.org|Feral Atlas]]

'''Miroboard'''

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVI4OmmIc=/

===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/I na K won|/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOYADrNMBY here]. To '''book a space''' please fill out this Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw00YebTE9C9GpAEJViwnC2q2s1tjGPMKmpTp9YLkhDR1abA/viewform?pli=1<nowiki/>The price for accommodation at NaRt is '''15€''' per night, '''75€''' for the whole week.

S'''ubmit''' your reservation '''by''' '''April 29th'''!

If you need or prefer more privacy, there are plenty of '''Air BnB''' spaces available in Narva. For further details see the info sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre

2025-05-18T12:49:04Z

MHalkort: added detailed schedule

'''10:00 – 11:00 Bus Travel Narva – Köhtla Järve – Kukruse Mountain'''

'''11:30 – 14:00 Kukruse Mountain'''

Field Guides: ''EESTI Eneregie/ENEFIT'', ''Kadri Tali, Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Tourism, Estonian University of Life Sciences,''

'''14:00 – 15:00 LUNCH''' (self-catering, bring food & drinks with you)

Bus Travel Kukruse – Auvere

'''15:00 – 17:00 Auvere Ashmountain''' Technical Infrastructure & Windpark

Field Guides: ''EESTI Eneregie/ENEFIT'', ''Kadri Tali, Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Tourism, Estonian University of Life Sciences,''

'''17:00 -17:30 Return to NART, Narva'''

'''19:00 DINNER'''

After Dinner Talk: ''Maros Krivy, Department of Architecture, EKA''

The politicisation of minerals (phosphor, limestone, oil shale), energy imaginaries, internal contradictions of socio-ecological transformation and post-independence energy regimes

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva

2025-05-18T12:46:56Z

MHalkort: reformatted text

'''9:00 – 11:30 Bus Travel''' Tallinn – Kothla_Järve

'''11:30 – 12:45 Mining Museum'''

'''12:45 – 13:30 Miners Lunch''' offered by Museum (optional); else bring your own

'''13:30 – 15:30 Aidu Canals''' revitalising artificial waterways in abandoned quarries; repurposing of postmining landscape for adventure tourism

'''Field Guide:''' ''Ain Kull, geo-ecologist, University of Tartu''

'''16:00 – 17:00 Sompa''' Abandoned Housing Blocks, Industrial Park

'''17:00 – 18:00 Bus Travel''' Sompa - Narva

'''18:00 Check in NART,''' Residency in Narva

'''19:30 Dinner'''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva

2025-05-18T12:45:50Z

MHalkort: added detailed time schedule

'''9:00 – 11:30    Bus Travel''' Tallinn – Kothla_Järve

'''11:30 – 12:45    Mining Museum'''

'''12:45 – 13:30    Miners Lunch''' offered by Museum (optional); else bring your own

'''13:30 – 15:30    Aidu Canals''' revitalising artificial waterways in abandoned quarries; repurposing of postmining landscape for adventure tourism

'''16:00 – 17:00    Sompa''' Abandoned Housing Blocks, Industrial Park

'''17:00 – 18:00    Bus Travel''' Sompa - Narva

'''18:00 Check in NART,''' Residency in Narva

'''19:30 Dinner'''

'''Field Guide''': ''Ain Kull, geo-ecologist, University of Tartu''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel

2025-05-09T18:40:31Z

MHalkort: Added links to slides and Zoom recording

* '''Presentation Hannah Segregantz:''' Working with Oil Shale Materials

SLIDES:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iucPymqluUbxFI2tKYfW8IfboViL_toD/view?usp=drive_link

* '''Review Idea Papers & Research Questions'''

SLIDES: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hZtY9CAtleDAgk87DXSBN6sH__ajvZvP/view?usp=drive_link

MIRO Map: Idea Papers <nowiki>https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVI4OmmIc=/?share_link_id=74212803822</nowiki>

* '''Technical Preparations for Travel & Accommodation'''

ZOOM Recording:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UjmsFnNLlBeIWIvkMze_n4TPcy0dyFx3/view?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn

2025-05-05T09:28:09Z

MHalkort: added times to the first day in the schedule

'''9:00 - 12:00 Welcome & Rebriefing'''
* Welcome team, institute and participants;
* (Re)cap program objectives&tasks
* Updates Program Schedule
* Presentation student research ideas / Teambuilding

'''12:00 - 13:00 Tour EKA studios''': material workshop / database

''Lunchbreak''

'''14:00 - 15:30 Studio Visit MUUSA''': Limestones as material witnesses, experiments with algae and other geological materials, Legwork methodology (Kärt Ojavee)

'''15:30 - 17:00 Exhibition Visit:''' ''Oil Shale Project'' (Hannah Segregantz)

(optional) EKA UrbanStudio Presentations: ''Baltic Sea Imaginaries'': I''nfrastructure, Politics, and Justice'' (Maros Krivy)

'''19:00 Group welcome meal'''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-05-04T11:34:48Z

MHalkort: /* COURSE MATERIALS */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology/Elemental Perspectives (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P1DwGrEWz3HpTbfr9932CYUuRyl5atNK?usp=drive_link

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* [https://leida.artun.ee/en/issues/community-of-agents/in-praise-of-legwork Legwork]

* [[Feralatlas.org|Feral Atlas]]
===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOYADrNMBY here]. To '''book a space''' please fill out this Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw00YebTE9C9GpAEJViwnC2q2s1tjGPMKmpTp9YLkhDR1abA/viewform?pli=1<nowiki/>The price for accommodation at NaRt is '''15€''' per night, '''75€''' for the whole week.

S'''ubmit''' your reservation '''by''' '''April 29th'''!

If you need or prefer more privacy, there are plenty of '''Air BnB''' spaces available in Narva. For further details see the info sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-05-04T11:28:53Z

MHalkort: /* COURSE MATERIALS */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology/Elemental Perspectives (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P1DwGrEWz3HpTbfr9932CYUuRyl5atNK?usp=drive_link

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org
===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOYADrNMBY here]. To '''book a space''' please fill out this Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw00YebTE9C9GpAEJViwnC2q2s1tjGPMKmpTp9YLkhDR1abA/viewform?pli=1<nowiki/>The price for accommodation at NaRt is '''15€''' per night, '''75€''' for the whole week.

S'''ubmit''' your reservation '''by''' '''April 29th'''!

If you need or prefer more privacy, there are plenty of '''Air BnB''' spaces available in Narva. For further details see the info sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-27T19:42:17Z

MHalkort: /* ACCOMMODATION */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org
===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOYADrNMBY here]. To '''book a space''' please fill out this Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw00YebTE9C9GpAEJViwnC2q2s1tjGPMKmpTp9YLkhDR1abA/viewform?pli=1<nowiki/>The price for accommodation at NaRt is '''15€''' per night, '''75€''' for the whole week.

S'''ubmit''' your reservation '''by''' '''April 29th'''!

If you need or prefer more privacy, there are plenty of '''Air BnB''' spaces available in Narva. For further details see the info sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-27T19:41:20Z

MHalkort: /* ACCOMMODATION */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org
===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOYADrNMBY here]. To '''book a space''' please fill out the Google form sent out via e-mail. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw00YebTE9C9GpAEJViwnC2q2s1tjGPMKmpTp9YLkhDR1abA/viewform?pli=1<nowiki/>The price for accommodation at NaRt is '''15€''' per night, '''75€''' for the whole week.

Please s'''ubmit''' your reservation '''by''' '''April 29th'''! If you need or prefer more privacy, there are plenty of '''Air BnB''' spaces available in Narva. For furhter details see the info sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-27T19:39:34Z

MHalkort: /* ACCOMMODATION */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org
===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOYADrNMBY here]. To '''book a space''' please fill out the Google form sent out via e-mail. The price for accommodation at NaRt is '''15€''' per night, '''75€''' for the whole week.

Please s'''ubmit''' your reservation '''by''' '''April 29th'''! If you need or prefer more privacy, there are plenty of '''Air BnB''' spaces available in Narva. For furhter details see the info sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-27T10:49:03Z

MHalkort: /* ACCOMMODATION */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org
===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' with 10 beds each (total of 20 beds). To '''book a space''' please fill out this form Make sure to '''submit''' your request '''by''' '''April 29th'''! Beds will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.

Alternatively you can book a hotel or Air BnB. For details see info Sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-27T10:27:00Z

MHalkort: /* ACCOMMODATION */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org
===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two common sleeping areas with 10 beds each (total of 20 beds). To book a space please fill out this form <nowiki>https://forms.gle/MCqjFuMnQri12JwC7</nowiki>. Make sure to submit your request by April 29th! Beds will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.

Alternatively you can book a hotel or Air BnB. For details see info Sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-25T21:20:06Z

MHalkort: /* Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung */

10am, Zoom Link: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

==The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia==
Guest Lecture: Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

Topics
* What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact
[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C2QNSofAjELp-hjTkLoDi_OUe-Nwq5gJ/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true '''SLIDES Rohi Mötlep''']

'''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18cvloBEGS3TR1g2Kwv4bsckjOTcBFAkW/view?usp=drive_link ZOOM RECORDING]'''

==Methodological Briefing==
===Listening Exercise===
Prepared by Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, brought by Nina Bendix Igleses

This listening–sensing exercise is designed to connect you with your non-visual senses as you explore different sites.
Its purpose is to deepen your relationship with each location and enable you to compare and understand them in relation to one another.

* [[File:Listening-excercise-revised.pdf]]

===Measurement of electrical potentials in plants===
Prepared by Mindaugas Gapševičius

This experiment offers insight into the electrochemical activity of living organisms such as plants, fungi, or even humans. By tracking a specimen over time—especially across the day—you may observe fluctuations in its bioelectric activity, reflecting internal and environmental changes. The experiment builds on Martin Howse's ''Interspecies Communication Platform'' (See for details: Kuni, V., Landwehr, D. ''Home Made Bio-Electronic Art'').

* [[File:Electric-potencials-excercise-revised.pdf]]
* [[File:Electronic-potentials.pdf]]

===Soil Chemistry===
Prepared by Felix Bonowski

This set of experiments explores the invisible chemical properties of soils and ashes through color indicators, extraction techniques, and flame tests. These procedures highlight transformations in soil composition and provide insight into environmental processes such as erosion, mineral dissolution, and chemical reactivity.

* [[File:Soil-chemistry-experiments-revised.pdf]]

'''Further reading:'''
* Bead test:
https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Praktikum_Anorganische_Chemie/_Borax-_und_Phosphorsalzperle
https://www.thoughtco.com/bead-test-in-chemical-analysis-4050801
Flame coloration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
pH Indicators
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_salt is the salt in the tube

==Homework==
Idea paper (1 page): What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

Follow [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IiQ3ncSXmS5LoOMFvNbqE83Q_sVDyg0b/view?usp=sharing Briefing] on Google Drive.

===Key Steps (in preparation of field week)===

* Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study
* Conduct preparatory research based on course readings and online lectures
* Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in the research diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon, upload paper on your wikipage

==Recommended Readings==

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''
* Gan, Tsing, Swanson & Bubandt, 2017, Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene In: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (1 -14). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
* Liboiron, M. & Lepawsky, J., 2022, The Scales of Waste & Inside and Outside In: Discard Studies: Wsting, Systems and Power (35 – 96), Cambridge, London: MIT Press
==Examples Fieldprojects==

===Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung===
“to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024
* URL: https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438.

===Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet===
„Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024
* URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-25T21:18:41Z

MHalkort: /* The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia */

10am, Zoom Link: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

==The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia==
Guest Lecture: Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

Topics
* What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact
[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C2QNSofAjELp-hjTkLoDi_OUe-Nwq5gJ/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true '''SLIDES Rohi Mötlep''']

'''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18cvloBEGS3TR1g2Kwv4bsckjOTcBFAkW/view?usp=drive_link ZOOM RECORDING]'''

==Methodological Briefing==
===Listening Exercise===
Prepared by Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, brought by Nina Bendix Igleses

This listening–sensing exercise is designed to connect you with your non-visual senses as you explore different sites.
Its purpose is to deepen your relationship with each location and enable you to compare and understand them in relation to one another.

* [[File:Listening-excercise-revised.pdf]]

===Measurement of electrical potentials in plants===
Prepared by Mindaugas Gapševičius

This experiment offers insight into the electrochemical activity of living organisms such as plants, fungi, or even humans. By tracking a specimen over time—especially across the day—you may observe fluctuations in its bioelectric activity, reflecting internal and environmental changes. The experiment builds on Martin Howse's ''Interspecies Communication Platform'' (See for details: Kuni, V., Landwehr, D. ''Home Made Bio-Electronic Art'').

* [[File:Electric-potencials-excercise-revised.pdf]]
* [[File:Electronic-potentials.pdf]]

===Soil Chemistry===
Prepared by Felix Bonowski

This set of experiments explores the invisible chemical properties of soils and ashes through color indicators, extraction techniques, and flame tests. These procedures highlight transformations in soil composition and provide insight into environmental processes such as erosion, mineral dissolution, and chemical reactivity.

* [[File:Soil-chemistry-experiments-revised.pdf]]

'''Further reading:'''
* Bead test:
https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Praktikum_Anorganische_Chemie/_Borax-_und_Phosphorsalzperle
https://www.thoughtco.com/bead-test-in-chemical-analysis-4050801
Flame coloration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
pH Indicators
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_salt is the salt in the tube

==Homework==
Idea paper (1 page): What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

Follow [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IiQ3ncSXmS5LoOMFvNbqE83Q_sVDyg0b/view?usp=sharing Briefing] on Google Drive.

===Key Steps (in preparation of field week)===

* Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study
* Conduct preparatory research based on course readings and online lectures
* Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in the research diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon, upload paper on your wikipage

==Recommended Readings==

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''
* Gan, Tsing, Swanson & Bubandt, 2017, Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene In: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (1 -14). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
* Liboiron, M. & Lepawsky, J., 2022, The Scales of Waste & Inside and Outside In: Discard Studies: Wsting, Systems and Power (35 – 96), Cambridge, London: MIT Press
==Examples Fieldprojects==

===Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung===
“to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024
* URL: https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.

===Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet===
„Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024
* URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-25T21:18:23Z

MHalkort: /* The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia */

10am, Zoom Link: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

==The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia==
Guest Lecture: Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

Topics
* What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact
[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C2QNSofAjELp-hjTkLoDi_OUe-Nwq5gJ/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true '''SLIDES Rohi Mötlep''']
'''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18cvloBEGS3TR1g2Kwv4bsckjOTcBFAkW/view?usp=drive_link ZOOM RECORDING]'''

==Methodological Briefing==
===Listening Exercise===
Prepared by Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, brought by Nina Bendix Igleses

This listening–sensing exercise is designed to connect you with your non-visual senses as you explore different sites.
Its purpose is to deepen your relationship with each location and enable you to compare and understand them in relation to one another.

* [[File:Listening-excercise-revised.pdf]]

===Measurement of electrical potentials in plants===
Prepared by Mindaugas Gapševičius

This experiment offers insight into the electrochemical activity of living organisms such as plants, fungi, or even humans. By tracking a specimen over time—especially across the day—you may observe fluctuations in its bioelectric activity, reflecting internal and environmental changes. The experiment builds on Martin Howse's ''Interspecies Communication Platform'' (See for details: Kuni, V., Landwehr, D. ''Home Made Bio-Electronic Art'').

* [[File:Electric-potencials-excercise-revised.pdf]]
* [[File:Electronic-potentials.pdf]]

===Soil Chemistry===
Prepared by Felix Bonowski

This set of experiments explores the invisible chemical properties of soils and ashes through color indicators, extraction techniques, and flame tests. These procedures highlight transformations in soil composition and provide insight into environmental processes such as erosion, mineral dissolution, and chemical reactivity.

* [[File:Soil-chemistry-experiments-revised.pdf]]

'''Further reading:'''
* Bead test:
https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Praktikum_Anorganische_Chemie/_Borax-_und_Phosphorsalzperle
https://www.thoughtco.com/bead-test-in-chemical-analysis-4050801
Flame coloration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
pH Indicators
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_salt is the salt in the tube

==Homework==
Idea paper (1 page): What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

Follow [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IiQ3ncSXmS5LoOMFvNbqE83Q_sVDyg0b/view?usp=sharing Briefing] on Google Drive.

===Key Steps (in preparation of field week)===

* Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study
* Conduct preparatory research based on course readings and online lectures
* Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in the research diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon, upload paper on your wikipage

==Recommended Readings==

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''
* Gan, Tsing, Swanson & Bubandt, 2017, Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene In: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (1 -14). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
* Liboiron, M. & Lepawsky, J., 2022, The Scales of Waste & Inside and Outside In: Discard Studies: Wsting, Systems and Power (35 – 96), Cambridge, London: MIT Press
==Examples Fieldprojects==

===Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung===
“to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024
* URL: https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.

===Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet===
„Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024
* URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-25T21:17:17Z

MHalkort: Added link to Zoom Recording

10am, Zoom Link: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

==The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia==
Guest Lecture: Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

Topics
* What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C2QNSofAjELp-hjTkLoDi_OUe-Nwq5gJ/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true SLIDES Rohi Mötlep]
'''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18cvloBEGS3TR1g2Kwv4bsckjOTcBFAkW/view?usp=drive_link ZOOM RECORDING]'''

==Methodological Briefing==
===Listening Exercise===
Prepared by Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, brought by Nina Bendix Igleses

This listening–sensing exercise is designed to connect you with your non-visual senses as you explore different sites.
Its purpose is to deepen your relationship with each location and enable you to compare and understand them in relation to one another.

* [[File:Listening-excercise-revised.pdf]]

===Measurement of electrical potentials in plants===
Prepared by Mindaugas Gapševičius

This experiment offers insight into the electrochemical activity of living organisms such as plants, fungi, or even humans. By tracking a specimen over time—especially across the day—you may observe fluctuations in its bioelectric activity, reflecting internal and environmental changes. The experiment builds on Martin Howse's ''Interspecies Communication Platform'' (See for details: Kuni, V., Landwehr, D. ''Home Made Bio-Electronic Art'').

* [[File:Electric-potencials-excercise-revised.pdf]]
* [[File:Electronic-potentials.pdf]]

===Soil Chemistry===
Prepared by Felix Bonowski

This set of experiments explores the invisible chemical properties of soils and ashes through color indicators, extraction techniques, and flame tests. These procedures highlight transformations in soil composition and provide insight into environmental processes such as erosion, mineral dissolution, and chemical reactivity.

* [[File:Soil-chemistry-experiments-revised.pdf]]

'''Further reading:'''
* Bead test:
https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Praktikum_Anorganische_Chemie/_Borax-_und_Phosphorsalzperle
https://www.thoughtco.com/bead-test-in-chemical-analysis-4050801
Flame coloration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
pH Indicators
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_salt is the salt in the tube

==Homework==
Idea paper (1 page): What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

Follow [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IiQ3ncSXmS5LoOMFvNbqE83Q_sVDyg0b/view?usp=sharing Briefing] on Google Drive.

===Key Steps (in preparation of field week)===

* Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study
* Conduct preparatory research based on course readings and online lectures
* Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in the research diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon, upload paper on your wikipage

==Recommended Readings==

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''
* Gan, Tsing, Swanson & Bubandt, 2017, Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene In: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (1 -14). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
* Liboiron, M. & Lepawsky, J., 2022, The Scales of Waste & Inside and Outside In: Discard Studies: Wsting, Systems and Power (35 – 96), Cambridge, London: MIT Press
==Examples Fieldprojects==

===Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung===
“to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024
* URL: https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.

===Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet===
„Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024
* URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction

2025-04-25T21:13:22Z

MHalkort: added links to Slides and Zoom Recording

* Preview of Program: key topics & questions, schedule, locations, objectives, expectations and tasks
* Introduction Students
* Questions?
* Reading assignments
[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FCckEe4Avxjen-WP5L_dOglEGRS8FmF0/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true SLIDES]

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hqngRhZx52sxA71igLk4hVU98Tq5jt0d/view?usp=drive_link ZOOM RECORDING]

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-25T21:10:24Z

MHalkort: /* The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia */

10am, Zoom Link: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

==The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia==
Guest Lecture: Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

Topics
* What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C2QNSofAjELp-hjTkLoDi_OUe-Nwq5gJ/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true SLIDES Rohi Mötlep]

==Methodological Briefing==
===Listening Exercise===
Prepared by Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, brought by Nina Bendix Igleses

This listening–sensing exercise is designed to connect you with your non-visual senses as you explore different sites.
Its purpose is to deepen your relationship with each location and enable you to compare and understand them in relation to one another.

* [[File:Listening-excercise-revised.pdf]]

===Measurement of electrical potentials in plants===
Prepared by Mindaugas Gapševičius

This experiment offers insight into the electrochemical activity of living organisms such as plants, fungi, or even humans. By tracking a specimen over time—especially across the day—you may observe fluctuations in its bioelectric activity, reflecting internal and environmental changes. The experiment builds on Martin Howse's ''Interspecies Communication Platform'' (See for details: Kuni, V., Landwehr, D. ''Home Made Bio-Electronic Art'').

* [[File:Electric-potencials-excercise-revised.pdf]]
* [[File:Electronic-potentials.pdf]]

===Soil Chemistry===
Prepared by Felix Bonowski

This set of experiments explores the invisible chemical properties of soils and ashes through color indicators, extraction techniques, and flame tests. These procedures highlight transformations in soil composition and provide insight into environmental processes such as erosion, mineral dissolution, and chemical reactivity.

* [[File:Soil-chemistry-experiments-revised.pdf]]

Further reading:
* Bead test:
https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Praktikum_Anorganische_Chemie/_Borax-_und_Phosphorsalzperle
https://www.thoughtco.com/bead-test-in-chemical-analysis-4050801
Flame coloration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
pH Indicators
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_salt is the salt in the tube

==Homework==
Idea paper (1 page): What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

Follow [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IiQ3ncSXmS5LoOMFvNbqE83Q_sVDyg0b/view?usp=sharing Briefing] on Google Drive.

===Key Steps (in preparation of field week)===

* Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study
* Conduct preparatory research based on course readings and online lectures
* Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in the research diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon, upload paper on your wikipage

==Recommended Readings==

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''
* Gan, Tsing, Swanson & Bubandt, 2017, Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene In: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (1 -14). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
* Liboiron, M. & Lepawsky, J., 2022, The Scales of Waste & Inside and Outside In: Discard Studies: Wsting, Systems and Power (35 – 96), Cambridge, London: MIT Press
==Examples Fieldprojects==

===Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung===
“to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024
* URL: https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.

===Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet===
„Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024
* URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-25T07:50:28Z

MHalkort: /* Recommended Readings */

10am, Zoom Link: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

==The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia==
Guest Lecture: Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

Topics
* What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact

==Methodological Briefing==
===Listening Exercise===
Prepared by Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, brought by Nina Bendix Igleses

This listening–sensing exercise is designed to connect you with your non-visual senses as you explore different sites.
Its purpose is to deepen your relationship with each location and enable you to compare and understand them in relation to one another.

* [[File:Listening-excercise-revised.pdf]]

===Measurement of electrical potentials in plants===
Prepared by Mindaugas Gapševičius

This experiment offers insight into the electrochemical activity of living organisms such as plants, fungi, or even humans. By tracking a specimen over time—especially across the day—you may observe fluctuations in its bioelectric activity, reflecting internal and environmental changes. The experiment builds on Martin Howse's ''Interspecies Communication Platform'' (See for details: Kuni, V., Landwehr, D. ''Home Made Bio-Electronic Art'').

* [[File:Electric-potencials-excercise-revised.pdf]]

===Soil Chemistry===
Prepared by Felix Bonowski

This set of experiments explores the invisible chemical properties of soils and ashes through color indicators, extraction techniques, and flame tests. These procedures highlight transformations in soil composition and provide insight into environmental processes such as erosion, mineral dissolution, and chemical reactivity.

* [[File:Soil-chemistry-experiments-revised.pdf]]

==Homework==
Idea paper (1 page): What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

Follow [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H1xuCi7onlMeKgNoqVXN2Mo2BFBNsUae/view?usp=drive_link Briefing] on Google Drive.

===Key Steps (in preparation of field week)===

* Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study
* Conduct preparatory research based on course readings and online lectures
* Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in the research diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon

==Recommended Readings==

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''
* Gan, Tsing, Swanson & Bubandt, 2017, Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene In: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (1 -14). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
* Liboiron, M. & Lepawsky, J., 2022, The Scales of Waste & Inside and Outside In: Discard Studies: Wsting, Systems and Power (35 – 96), Cambridge, London: MIT Press
==Examples Fieldprojects==

===Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung===
“to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024
* URL: https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.

===Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet===
„Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024
* URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/
* DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-16T07:54:53Z

MHalkort: removed one recommended reading

'''<big>The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia</big>'''

'''Zoom Link:''' https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

'''Guest Lecture:''' Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

'''Topics:''' What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact

'''Methodological Briefing:''' Mindaugas Gapševičius & Felix Bonowski, Bauhaus University Weimar

'''Topics:''' acoustic ecology, chromatography, listening exercises; Instructions for Group Work (3- 5 people)

'''Homework:''' Idea paper (1 page): What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

Follow [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H1xuCi7onlMeKgNoqVXN2Mo2BFBNsUae/view?usp=drive_link Briefing] on Google Drive.

'''Key Steps (in preparation of field week)'''

▪ Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study

▪ Conduct preparatory research based on course readings and online lectures

▪ Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in the research diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon

'''Recommended Readings:'''

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''T[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ roubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''

'''Examples Fieldprojects'''

* Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung: “to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.
* Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet: „Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production

2025-04-15T00:50:59Z

MHalkort: /* Conceptual Briefing: Monika Halkort, Ass. Prof Transformation Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna */

'''<big>Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production</big>'''

==== '''Guest Lecture''': Linda Kaljundi, Prof of cultural history, EKA, Tallinn ====
'''Topics:''' imperial history of oil shale production (pre-war period, Nazi&Soviet era), entanglement of industrialisation of landscapes and population transfer, economic significance of oil shale (pre and post independence), social and cultural significance of mining (identities, status, belonging, solidarities, attachment to place), risk, accidents, trauma (i.e. the 1988 fire in Estonia mine), dissonant heritage

'''Recording:'''https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YxWiPJDdYccfqo8T3E8wcZ9sJIz30rxM/view?usp=drive_link

==== '''Conceptual Briefing''': Monika Halkort, Ass. Prof Transformation Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna ====
'''Key Concepts:''' Elemental Ethnography, techno-natures, feral objects, geo-social formations, queer ecologies, waste, resource, residue

'''Slides:''' https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U2l8_Q8EvjrjYTbEqtc8IhZkb-KExJRG/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true

'''Recording:'''https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x24xVPfLl9bV3h2071Mhvvk5mNwPkT6m/view?usp=drive_link

'''Reading assignments:'''

* Krivy, Maros, 2016 From Mining to Data Mining In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Press, pp. 191 - 202
* Marzecova, Agata, 2016 The Vernacular Geology of the Baltics XXV In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Pres, pp. 202-213
* Printsmann, A.; Sepp, M.; Luud, A. (2012). The land of oil-shale: the image, protection, and future of mining landscape heritage. In: Häyrynen, S.; Turunen, R.; Nyman, J. (Ed.). Locality, Memory, Reconstruction: The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-industry Communities. (180−196). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
* Stengers, I. 2021. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants and Elemental Powers. In: Papadopoulos, D., de la Bellacasa, M.P & Myers, N Reactivating Elements (18-34).Croydon: Duke University Press
* Murphy, Michelle, 2017 Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations. IN: ''Cultural Anthropology'' 32, no. 4: 494–503. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.02</nowiki>.
* Nova, N. & Disnovation.org (2023) Chapters ''‘''Anthropogenic Landscapes’ & ‘Recombinant Commons’ & ‘On Temporalities’ IN: Bestiary of the Anthropocene''.'' Set Margins'

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production

2025-04-14T23:44:05Z

MHalkort: Made sub headlines bigger

'''<big>Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production</big>'''

==== '''Guest Lecture''': Linda Kaljundi, Prof of cultural history, EKA, Tallinn ====
'''Topics:''' imperial history of oil shale production (pre-war period, Nazi&Soviet era), entanglement of industrialisation of landscapes and population transfer, economic significance of oil shale (pre and post independence), social and cultural significance of mining (identities, status, belonging, solidarities, attachment to place), risk, accidents, trauma (i.e. the 1988 fire in Estonia mine), dissonant heritage

'''Recording:'''https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iy2zCqU5Dxhb5VPZdqG19S27aJJhA4ND/view?usp=drive_link

==== '''Conceptual Briefing''': Monika Halkort, Ass. Prof Transformation Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna ====
'''Key Concepts:''' Elemental Ethnography, techno-natures, feral objects, geo-social formations, queer ecologies, waste, resource, residue

'''Slides:''' https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U2l8_Q8EvjrjYTbEqtc8IhZkb-KExJRG/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true

'''Recording:''' https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O-vWYTcofSXe0lyfz61UvVKbzxVIyxRq/view?usp=drive_link

'''Reading assignments:'''

* Krivy, Maros, 2016 From Mining to Data Mining In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Press, pp. 191 - 202
* Marzecova, Agata, 2016 The Vernacular Geology of the Baltics XXV In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Pres, pp. 202-213
* Printsmann, A.; Sepp, M.; Luud, A. (2012). The land of oil-shale: the image, protection, and future of mining landscape heritage. In: Häyrynen, S.; Turunen, R.; Nyman, J. (Ed.). Locality, Memory, Reconstruction: The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-industry Communities. (180−196). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
* Stengers, I. 2021. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants and Elemental Powers. In: Papadopoulos, D., de la Bellacasa, M.P & Myers, N Reactivating Elements (18-34).Croydon: Duke University Press
* Murphy, Michelle, 2017 Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations. IN: ''Cultural Anthropology'' 32, no. 4: 494–503. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.02</nowiki>.
* Nova, N. & Disnovation.org (2023) Chapters ''‘''Anthropogenic Landscapes’ & ‘Recombinant Commons’ & ‘On Temporalities’ IN: Bestiary of the Anthropocene''.'' Set Margins'

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production

2025-04-14T23:43:15Z

MHalkort: added links to recordings and slides

'''<big>Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production</big>'''

'''Guest Lecture''': Linda Kaljundi, Prof of cultural history, EKA, Tallinn

'''Topics:''' imperial history of oil shale production (pre-war period, Nazi&Soviet era), entanglement of industrialisation of landscapes and population transfer, economic significance of oil shale (pre and post independence), social and cultural significance of mining (identities, status, belonging, solidarities, attachment to place), risk, accidents, trauma (i.e. the 1988 fire in Estonia mine), dissonant heritage

'''Recording:'''https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iy2zCqU5Dxhb5VPZdqG19S27aJJhA4ND/view?usp=drive_link

'''Conceptual Briefing''': Monika Halkort, Ass. Prof Transformation Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

'''Key Concepts:''' Elemental Ethnography, techno-natures, feral objects, geo-social formations, queer ecologies, waste, resource, residue

'''Slides:''' https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U2l8_Q8EvjrjYTbEqtc8IhZkb-KExJRG/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108295539537899792213&rtpof=true&sd=true

'''Recording:''' https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O-vWYTcofSXe0lyfz61UvVKbzxVIyxRq/view?usp=drive_link

'''Reading assignments:'''

* Krivy, Maros, 2016 From Mining to Data Mining In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Press, pp. 191 - 202
* Marzecova, Agata, 2016 The Vernacular Geology of the Baltics XXV In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Pres, pp. 202-213
* Printsmann, A.; Sepp, M.; Luud, A. (2012). The land of oil-shale: the image, protection, and future of mining landscape heritage. In: Häyrynen, S.; Turunen, R.; Nyman, J. (Ed.). Locality, Memory, Reconstruction: The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-industry Communities. (180−196). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
* Stengers, I. 2021. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants and Elemental Powers. In: Papadopoulos, D., de la Bellacasa, M.P & Myers, N Reactivating Elements (18-34).Croydon: Duke University Press
* Murphy, Michelle, 2017 Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations. IN: ''Cultural Anthropology'' 32, no. 4: 494–503. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.02</nowiki>.
* Nova, N. & Disnovation.org (2023) Chapters ''‘''Anthropogenic Landscapes’ & ‘Recombinant Commons’ & ‘On Temporalities’ IN: Bestiary of the Anthropocene''.'' Set Margins'

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-14T22:28:02Z

MHalkort: added link to briefing for idea paper

'''<big>The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia</big>'''

'''Zoom Link:''' https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

'''Guest Lecture:''' Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

'''Topics:''' What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact

'''Methodological Briefing:''' Mindaugas Gapševičius & Felix Bonowski, Bauhaus University Weimar

'''Topics:''' acoustic ecology, chromatography, listening exercises; Instructions for Group Work (3- 5 people)

'''Homework:''' Idea paper (1 page): What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

Follow [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H1xuCi7onlMeKgNoqVXN2Mo2BFBNsUae/view?usp=drive_link Briefing] on Google Drive.

'''Key Steps (in preparation of field week)'''

▪ Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study

▪ Conduct preparatory research based on course readings and online lectures

▪ Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in the research diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon

'''Recommended Readings:'''

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''T[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ roubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''

'''Examples Fieldprojects'''

* Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung: “to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.
* Ingrid Halland: “The Surface-Process Paradox: On Chemistry, Extraction, and Aesthetics.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/the-surface-process-paradox/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030656</nowiki>.
* Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet: „Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-14T18:33:15Z

MHalkort:

'''<big>The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia</big>'''

'''Zoom Link:''' https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

'''Guest Lecture:''' Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

'''Topics:''' What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact

'''Methodological Briefing:''' Mindaugas Gapševičius & Felix Bonowski, Bauhaus University Weimar

'''Topics:''' acoustic ecology, chromatography, listening exercises; Instructions for Group Work (3- 5 people)

'''Homework:''' Idea paper (1 page). What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

'''Key Steps (in preparation of field week)'''

▪ Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study

▪ Conduct preparatory research on de/re-composition of elemental flows they embody and to what effect

▪ Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in your research Diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon

'''Recommended Readings:'''

* Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''T[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ roubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''

'''Examples Fieldprojects'''

* Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung: “to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.
* Ingrid Halland: “The Surface-Process Paradox: On Chemistry, Extraction, and Aesthetics.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/the-surface-process-paradox/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030656</nowiki>.
* Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet: „Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-14T18:31:55Z

MHalkort:

'''<big>The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia</big>'''

'''Zoom Link:''' https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/65584240536

'''Guest Lecture:''' Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

'''Topics:''' What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact

'''Methodological Briefing:''' Mindaugas Gapševičius & Felix Bonowski, Bauhaus University Weimar

'''Topics:''' acoustic ecology, chromatography, listening exercises; Instructions for Group Work (3- 5 people)

'''Homework:''' Idea paper (1 page). What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

'''Key Steps (in preparation of field week)'''

▪ Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study

▪ Conduct preparatory research on de/re-composition of elemental flows they embody and to what effect

▪ Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in your research Diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon

'''Recommended Readings:'''

Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''T[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ roubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''

'''Examples Fieldprojects/Reports'''

* Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung: “to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.
* Ingrid Halland: “The Surface-Process Paradox: On Chemistry, Extraction, and Aesthetics.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/the-surface-process-paradox/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030656</nowiki>.
* Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet: „Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-14T18:28:12Z

MHalkort: added briefing for idea paper, inserted healinges and made them bold, added recommended readings

'''<big>The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia</big>'''

'''Guest Lecture:''' Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

'''Topics:''' What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact

'''Methodological Briefing:''' Mindaugas Gapševičius & Felix Bonowski, Bauhaus University Weimar

'''Topics:''' acoustic ecology, chromatography, listening exercises; Instructions for Group Work (3- 5 people)

'''Homework:''' Idea paper (1 page). What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

'''Key Steps (in preparation of field week)'''

▪ Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study

▪ Conduct preparatory research on de/re-composition of elemental flows they embody and to what effect

▪ Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in your research Diary on your personal wiki page

* 5+ sentences background info,
* 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes
* 5+ technical description: tools, method, process
* 5+ references

'''Due:''' by April 30th 2025 noon

'''Reciommended Readings:'''

Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''T[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ roubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''

'''Examples Fieldprijects/Reports'''

* Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung: “to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.
* Ingrid Halland: “The Surface-Process Paradox: On Chemistry, Extraction, and Aesthetics.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/the-surface-process-paradox/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030656</nowiki>.
* Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet: „Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a photographic device, not for the concept note of the project. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium extraction is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-14T13:27:34Z

MHalkort: /* SYLLABUS */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04. 2025 [[Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]]

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org
===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-14T13:08:52Z

MHalkort:

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

== SYLLABUS ==
* 04.04. 2025 [[Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]]

'''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>'''

This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link
===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-14T13:08:17Z

MHalkort: /* METHODOLOGY & TASKS */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

== SYLLABUS ==
* 04.04. 2025 [[Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]]

'''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>'''

This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link
===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-14T13:01:18Z

MHalkort: /* SYLLABUS */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

== SYLLABUS ==
* 04.04. 2025 [[Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]]

'''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>'''

This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The aspired outcome of this field exercise is to create a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===Participants===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===OUTCOMES===

The outcome of our material probes and observations will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field.

Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.

===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link
===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-14T13:00:53Z

MHalkort: /* METHODOLOGY & TASKS */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

== SYLLABUS ==
* 04.04. 2025 [[Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]]

'''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>'''This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The aspired outcome of this field exercise is to create a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===Participants===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===OUTCOMES===

The outcome of our material probes and observations will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field.

Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.

===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link
===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-14T12:59:10Z

MHalkort: /* Syllabus */

Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

== SYLLABUS ==
* 04.04. 2025 [[Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]]

'''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>'''This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Toxicity is a specific genre of harm that describes the (re)ordering of living systems across timeframes and scales. Following Tironi and Liberoin, (p. 336;) it creates shared conditions for what thrives and what is altered, what ‘persist[s] and redistributes[s] ‘ and ‘what is destroyed, injured, and constrained’ both as a premise for other things to thrive (Murphy, 2017: 141–142).

During the one-week residency in Estonia, we trace this reordering of life across the entire life cycle of oil shales - from their site of extraction along the Estonian coastline, to fossil fuel processing plants, all the way to the open waste dumps and riverbeds, where the toxic sludge and the industrial ash are deposited and dumped.

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

Our main task will be to create a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===Participants===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===OUTCOMES===

The outcome of our material probes and observations will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field.

Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.

===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link
===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-14T12:38:21Z

MHalkort: /* Syllabus */

Preparatory Sessions (Online): April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 Field visit, Narva, Estonia (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 Follow up & Project Review (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)

Topics addressed: energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

== Syllabus ==
* 04.04. 2025 [[Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]]

The Chairs of Acoustic Ecologies and Media Environments invite students from Media Art and Design program to apply for a week-long field experiment in Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (School for Transformation), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), and Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) we investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

Oil shales are marine fossils stored in rocks containing kerogen that can be converted into crude oil and gas. The northeast of Estonia is extremely rich in oil shale reserves that have attracted the interest of imperial powers and totalitarian regimes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The unfettered violence of colonial and capitalist extraction has left behind vast mountains of industrial ash, and polluting materials, that are waiting to be remediated and disposed. The enduring legacy of toxic waste in open dumps next to forests, rivers, and unused agricultural lands has created its own queer ecologies that collectively remake environments in which received boundaries between waste, residue and resource, or regenerative materials are continuously renegotiated, reconfigured and redrawn.

During this 5 day workshop, we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research. “Queer” in this context does not necessarily describe something that already exists. Rather, queer inaugurates a certain kind of future of intelligibility for beings and collectives who are not yet available for explication. Hence, we consider the shale oil waste dumps as post-natural worlds, traversed by imperial and capitalist relations, whose historically specific modes of (chemo/techno)sociality and untapped potentials we seek to understand.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Toxicity is a specific genre of harm that describes the (re)ordering of living systems across timeframes and scales. Following Tironi and Liberoin, (p. 336;) it creates shared conditions for what thrives and what is altered, what ‘persist[s] and redistributes[s] ‘ and ‘what is destroyed, injured, and constrained’ both as a premise for other things to thrive (Murphy, 2017: 141–142).

During the one-week residency in Estonia, we trace this reordering of life across the entire life cycle of oil shales - from their site of extraction along the Estonian coastline, to fossil fuel processing plants, all the way to the open waste dumps and riverbeds, where the toxic sludge and the industrial ash are deposited and dumped.

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

Our main task will be to create a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===Participants===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===OUTCOMES===

The outcome of our material probes and observations will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field.

Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.

===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link
===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia

2025-04-14T12:35:37Z

MHalkort: added headline and readings, made some words bold

'''<big>The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia</big>'''

'''Guest Lecture:''' Riho Mötlep, Institute for Geology and Earth Science, University of Tartu

'''Topics:''' What is oil shale? Topography of extraction Waste/Environmental impact Methodological Briefing: acoustic ecology, chromatography, listening exercises Mindaugas Gapševičius & Felix Bonowski, Bauhaus University Weimar Instructions for Group Work (3- 5 people) Homework: Concept Note. What relational dynamics / transformations do you want to explore?

'''Required Readings:'''

Ulrike Gerhart & Julia Wolf, 2024 ''T[https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/editorial-1/ roubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories]''

'''Examples Fieldprijects/Reports'''

* Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung: “to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/to-slip-to-slide-to-glitch/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030438</nowiki>.
* Ingrid Halland: “The Surface-Process Paradox: On Chemistry, Extraction, and Aesthetics.” In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Issue 6, Troubled Matter—Thinking with Sedimented Histories, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/the-surface-process-paradox/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030656</nowiki>.
* Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet: „Sonne Unter Tage – Fragmente gesammelt auf den Halden unserer zusammengetragenen Geschichten“. In: INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Ausgabe 6, Troubled Matter – Denken mit sedimentierten Geschichten, 2024, URL: <nowiki>https://insert.art/ausgaben/troubled-matter/sonne-unter-tage/</nowiki>, DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14030408</nowiki>.

''NOTE: This project is only interesting for the way they work with radiation as a medium /photographic device, not the text. Using x-ray film for capturing the afterlife of uranium mining is interesting. It allowed to visualize the recalibration of elemental flows in contaminated soils that would otherwise be imperceptible.''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production

2025-04-14T12:14:28Z

MHalkort: inserted headlines, bulletpoints for readings, added readings

'''<big>Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production</big>'''

'''Guest Lecture''': Linda Kaljundi, Prof of cultural history, EKA, Tallinn

'''Topics:''' imperial history of oil shale production (pre-war period, Nazi&Soviet era), entanglement of industrialisation of landscapes and population transfer, economic significance of oil shale (pre and post independence), social and cultural significance of mining (identities, status, belonging, solidarities, attachment to place), risk, accidents, trauma (i.e. the 1988 fire in Estonia mine), dissonant heritage

'''Conceptual Briefing''': Monika Halkort, Ass. Prof Transformation Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

'''Key Concepts:''' Elemental Ethnography, techno-natures, feral objects, geo-social formations, queer ecologies, waste, resource, residue

'''Reading assignments:'''

* Krivy, Maros, 2016 From Mining to Data Mining In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Press, pp. 191 - 202
* Marzecova, Agata, 2016 The Vernacular Geology of the Baltics XXV In: Berzins et.al.(Eds), The Baltic Atlas. London: Sternberg Pres, pp. 202-213
* Printsmann, A.; Sepp, M.; Luud, A. (2012). The land of oil-shale: the image, protection, and future of mining landscape heritage. In: Häyrynen, S.; Turunen, R.; Nyman, J. (Ed.). Locality, Memory, Reconstruction: The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-industry Communities. (180−196). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
* Stengers, I. 2021. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants and Elemental Powers. In: Papadopoulos, D., de la Bellacasa, M.P & Myers, N Reactivating Elements (18-34).Croydon: Duke University Press
* Murphy, Michelle, 2017 Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations. IN: ''Cultural Anthropology'' 32, no. 4: 494–503. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.02</nowiki>.
* Nova, N. & Disnovation.org (2023) Chapters ''‘''Anthropogenic Landscapes’ & ‘Recombinant Commons’ & ‘On Temporalities’ IN: Bestiary of the Anthropocene''.'' Set Margins'

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-13T10:54:18Z

MHalkort: /* MATERIALS */

Preparatory Sessions (Online): April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 Field visit, Narva, Estonia (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 Follow up & Project Review (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)

Topics addressed: energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

== Syllabus ==
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]]

The Chairs of Acoustic Ecologies and Media Environments invite students from Media Art and Design program to apply for a week-long field experiment in Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (School for Transformation), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), and Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) we investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

Oil shales are marine fossils stored in rocks containing kerogen that can be converted into crude oil and gas. The northeast of Estonia is extremely rich in oil shale reserves that have attracted the interest of imperial powers and totalitarian regimes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The unfettered violence of colonial and capitalist extraction has left behind vast mountains of industrial ash, and polluting materials, that are waiting to be remediated and disposed. The enduring legacy of toxic waste in open dumps next to forests, rivers, and unused agricultural lands has created its own queer ecologies that collectively remake environments in which received boundaries between waste, residue and resource, or regenerative materials are continuously renegotiated, reconfigured and redrawn.

During this 5 day workshop, we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research. “Queer” in this context does not necessarily describe something that already exists. Rather, queer inaugurates a certain kind of future of intelligibility for beings and collectives who are not yet available for explication. Hence, we consider the shale oil waste dumps as post-natural worlds, traversed by imperial and capitalist relations, whose historically specific modes of (chemo/techno)sociality and untapped potentials we seek to understand.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Toxicity is a specific genre of harm that describes the (re)ordering of living systems across timeframes and scales. Following Tironi and Liberoin, (p. 336;) it creates shared conditions for what thrives and what is altered, what ‘persist[s] and redistributes[s] ‘ and ‘what is destroyed, injured, and constrained’ both as a premise for other things to thrive (Murphy, 2017: 141–142).

During the one-week residency in Estonia, we trace this reordering of life across the entire life cycle of oil shales - from their site of extraction along the Estonian coastline, to fossil fuel processing plants, all the way to the open waste dumps and riverbeds, where the toxic sludge and the industrial ash are deposited and dumped.

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

Our main task will be to create a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===Participants===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===OUTCOMES===

The outcome of our material probes and observations will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field.

Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.

===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link
===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org

GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-04-07T18:29:12Z

MHalkort: /* MATERIALS */

Preparatory Sessions (Online): April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 Field visit, Narva, Estonia (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 Follow up & Project Review (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

NUMBER OF ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)

Topics addressed: energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

The Chairs of Acoustic Ecologies and Media Environments invite students from Media Art and Design program to apply for a week-long field experiment in Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (School for Transformation), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), and Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) we investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

Oil shales are marine fossils stored in rocks containing kerogen that can be converted into crude oil and gas. The northeast of Estonia is extremely rich in oil shale reserves that have attracted the interest of imperial powers and totalitarian regimes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The unfettered violence of colonial and capitalist extraction has left behind vast mountains of industrial ash, and polluting materials, that are waiting to be remediated and disposed. The enduring legacy of toxic waste in open dumps next to forests, rivers, and unused agricultural lands has created its own queer ecologies that collectively remake environments in which received boundaries between waste, residue and resource, or regenerative materials are continuously renegotiated, reconfigured and redrawn.

During this 5 day workshop, we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research. “Queer” in this context does not necessarily describe something that already exists. Rather, queer inaugurates a certain kind of future of intelligibility for beings and collectives who are not yet available for explication. Hence, we consider the shale oil waste dumps as post-natural worlds, traversed by imperial and capitalist relations, whose historically specific modes of (chemo/techno)sociality and untapped potentials we seek to understand.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Toxicity is a specific genre of harm that describes the (re)ordering of living systems across timeframes and scales. Following Tironi and Liberoin, (p. 336;) it creates shared conditions for what thrives and what is altered, what ‘persist[s] and redistributes[s] ‘ and ‘what is destroyed, injured, and constrained’ both as a premise for other things to thrive (Murphy, 2017: 141–142).

During the one-week residency in Estonia, we trace this reordering of life across the entire life cycle of oil shales - from their site of extraction along the Estonian coastline, to fossil fuel processing plants, all the way to the open waste dumps and riverbeds, where the toxic sludge and the industrial ash are deposited and dumped.

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

Our main task will be to create a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===Participants===
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeoung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[/Sabah Khaled]]

===OUTCOMES===

The outcome of our material probes and observations will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field.

Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.

===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrtival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link
===EXPECTATIONS===

Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.

===MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology (Text)'''

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

* Feral Atlas feralatlas.org