Resisting Current Barbarisms
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.
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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, 18:30–20:00, 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
Assessment
A curated, annotated and designed booklet, bringing together key insights of the lecture contributions. The content should be enriched with comments, references, and explanations, and complemented by drawings, sketches, and other visual representations alongside the text.