Impact
Publications
We’ve learned a lot as a team over three years of project work. Inspired by our co-creative work with workshop participants and exhibition visitors, many of our activities, research questions, and insights have extended beyond CollActive Materials and made their way into other areas. We believe that the issue at the heart of a project always reveals itself in situations and spaces where it is able to transcend its context. That’s why, alongside our workshops, exhibitions, and publications, we are using this space to present the other forms in which our work has had an impact on us and others.
»mit:forschen!« Citizen Science Platform
Since 2022, CollActive Materials has been represented as a public engagement project on the mit:forschen! platform (formerly Bürger schaffen Wissen), the German network for citizen science.
metaLAB (at) Basel in cooperation with Harvard and FU Berlin
Research residency of Dr. Martin Müller on methods of collaborative speculative design, April 2024. At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Dr. Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
»Future of Life: Elementals« International Summer School, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design/ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, July 2023
The seminar »Aerial Witness/ing« by Dr. Léa Perraudin, Emilia Tikka, Dr. Martin Müller, and Clemens Winkler, hosted as part of the »Future of Life: Elementals« International Summer School, focused on the materiality of air as highly significant for geopolitical and climatic changes, applying methods such as experimental mapping and speculative material narratives in its approach.
»Histories of Air. Pneuma, Breathing, Aerosol«
Seminar by Dr. Martin Müller, winter semester 2024/2025, Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
»Damaged Planet. Climate Catastrophe and Cultural theory«
Seminar by Dr. Martin Müller, summer semester 2024, Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
»Air. Elementary Thinking between Environmental humanities and Material Culture«
Seminar by Dr. Martin Müller, summer semester 2023, Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Eva Bullermann’s Master’s Thesis
»Gestalten mit Cellulose, Wasser und Luft« (»Designing with Cellulose, Water, and Air«, 2023) – this is the thesis that designer-researcher Eva Bullermann submitted to complete her master’s degree in Textile Design at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. Her research on this topic was partly inspired by her work as a project assistant in CollActive Materials. Eva Bullermann presented her concepts for designing with biodegradable cellulose at a co-design workshop and as part of a pop-up exhibition in Futurium.
»Playing Emissions«, Participatory Theatrical Performance, bat Studiotheater, June 2023
In »Playing Emissions«, students of the MA program Spiel & Objekt at the Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts Berlin staged eventful dramaturgies about the futures of air, using means such as body heat, wind, and breathing exercises. The project by Mari Hakopyan, Jonas Olbrich and Vili Pääkö, supervised by Prof. Clemens Winkler, emerged, among other ways, from a collaboration with CollActive Materials.
Future Lab: Where Science Meets Communication, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 2023
Keynote speech by Dr. Kristin Werner: »Why? Make Your Science Communication Matter«, 12 October 2023
Leakage: Inaugural Conference of stsing, TU Dresden, 19–22 March 2024
Lecture by Dr. Léa Perraudin on »Subsurfacing Air. Breathing Bodies, Leaks, Bioindicators«, 20 March 2024
Audio Score by Monika Dorniak at »48 Stunden Neukölln«
The audio score (porously) anchored in the peripheries of time was developed by the interdisciplinary artist Monika Dorniak for the exhibition »AIRBOUND«. It was presented as part of her site-specific installation The Shortest Shadow in the »circles, squares, corners, moments, for, 48, hours« exhibition curated by Canberk Akçal for the »48 Stunden Neukölln« festival in 2024.
Designing Interactions, Public Engagement Training Portfolio, Berlin School of Public Engagement, 2024
Antje Nestler and Dr. Kristin Werner contributed to continuing education for future public engagement practitioners with a workshop discussion on designing interactions and speculative co-design that was hosted at the Berlin School of Public Engagement.
