Lecture Series "Resisting Current Barbarisms" (2025|26)
The lecture series Resisting Current Barbarisms (Winter Semester 2025/26) addresses how architecture and spatial practices intersect with urgent social and political struggles. In times of rising far-right ideologies, climate breakdown, and deepening inequality, the lectures examine resistance not only as opposition, but as composition: building new alliances, practices, and ways of living together.
Through fortnightly guest lectures by speakers, we will engage with feminist theories, climate justice, activist movements, and practices of care as forms of resistance.
A core concern of the series is how structures of power shape both spaces and experiences—exclusion, vulnerability, and care are all spatially produced and contested. By foregrounding critical perspectives, we situate architecture within wider debates about identity, representation, and justice.
Lectures
- 27.10.2025, 19:00–22:00, Film screening ‘Das Deutsche Volk’ (Universum)
- 17.11.2025, 17:00–18:30, MatriARCHI: learners about our histories, realities and imaginaries
- 01.12.2025, 13:00–14:30, Hamidou Bouguerra: someone somewhere between urbanism & politics
- 08.12.2025, 17:00–18:30, LASTESIS (online): performers, spreaders of feminist theses and demands
- 12.01.2026, 17:00–18:30, Anna Unterstab: Informationsdesignerin, maker of feminist and queer libraries
- 19.01.2026, 16:30–18:00, Samia Henni (online): historian of the built, destroyed and imagined environments
- 26.01.2026, 13:00–14:30, Teresa Vicente (online): lawyer, environmental activist, campaigner