About
Engaging with practices and politics of representation, the work of Prof. Mona Mahall and her team at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is situated in the expanding field of spatial and aesthetic practices, research and critical thinking. To this field, the wiki offers a slow, collective environment to share, reflect, and continue contributions. It is based on the assumption that knowledge is produced collaboratively between different agencies, among others, students, researchers, places, and things.
While representation has been associated (and neutralized) with visualization in architecture, art, and urbanism –including drawing, photography, model making
, video, sound, installation, and embodied techniques– we also consider its political implications as our task. For us this task means exposing and dismantling hegemonic visual regimes; those Westernized ways of depicting the world that have simultaneously served to dominate it. We advocate other(ed) modes of perceiving and constructing realities in a global present that is undergoing drastic transformations of spatial, political, societal, and environmental arrangements and forms of subjectivity.
Pragmatically using English as our common language for teaching and research, we expect –from all of us– a critical interest in the various relations of architecture, art, language, technology, and environment with colonial capitalism, social inequalities, and anti-democratic developments; a curiosity about alternative architectural and artistic knowledges; and a commitment to decolonization, the politics of care, and practices of counter-conduct.
We engage and confront a Bauhaus tradition
located between culture, technology, and the living world, crossing disciplinary boundaries as well as those between theory and practice. Our thinking and making is developed with a focus on particular cases, geographies, institutions, buildings, figures, events, or projects. Thereby, our close readings of structures, discourses, narratives, settings, and media are informed by feminist, postcolonial, and critical urban theories that allow us to evolve new methods of practice, approaches to research, and ways of seeing things and beings, as well as the alliances between them. With a strong emphasis on processuality, the work produced ranges from aesthetic and experimental project-based formats and installations to collaboratively produced exhibitions
, hosting, public event programming, as well as archival, ethnographic, and visual research publications.
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This wiki grows through the active participation of everyone involved. You are invited to creat an account and document projects, share reflections, publish research, offer resources, add references, and contribute insights from your practice or field of interest. Contributions may take the form of writing, images, media, annotations, or archival material that expand our collective understanding of representation in its spatial, political, and cultural dimensions. By adding to this shared environment, you help build an evolving resource that supports collaborative learning, critical dialogue, and new forms of knowledge production across disciplines.
Content shared on this wiki reflects the perspectives of individual contributors, who are responsible for their submissions and for respecting copyright, academic integrity, and ethical guidelines.