The joint post-disciplinary colloquium for artistic and scientific research at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) will continue in 2025. The Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) and the Hybrid Plattform cordially invite you to attend.

Early career researchers and artists from both universities will present their research projects under the theme:

Research Ecologies – encounters, disruptions, common ground

In a time of multiple crises that span across different geographies, time scales and political cycles, it is increasingly necessary to surpass disciplinary boundaries. It is at these sites of cross-disciplinary encounter that we can begin to address the major challenges of our time: social polarization, the climate emergency, the biodiversity crisis and ongoing social injustice. 

Cross-disciplinary encounters that are not simply concurrent, but equally irritant, are an important part of defining a common ground in research, allowing for more holistic solutions to our current challenges. The 2025 colloquium series focuses on artistic and scientific research questions in the face of current social phenomena and discourses, and offers a stage for projects that work on transformation topics in the context of climate and biodiversity, sustainability, social cohesion, the decolonial, digitalization as well as new technologies.

The colloquium offers space for content-related experiments while seeking an open exchange between the disciplines and faculties of TU and UdK.

Join us as we present the first part of the series, The weight of water: saturation and scarcity, where we will discover three research projects that are shaped by the interplay of historical power structures, technological intervention in natural systems and changing ecological conditions. From energy infrastructure in Russia, to land drainage in Brandenburg and technical adjustments in Lagos, the projects engage with issues of social injustice and inequality as they relate to resource distribution and environmental change.

You will hear contributions from:

• Pablo Quiroga Devia & Francesca Ceola (TU Berlin): Encountering waterfront shifting spatio-materialities in Lagos – an artist and a researcher experimentation
• Julia Lazarus (UdK Berlin): Conditions of drought – Investigating the many levels of water
• Jeanna Kolesova (UdK Berlin): In Zombie Fire

Contact: kolloquium_ @hybrid-plattform.org 

We look forward to seeing you there!