The Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) and Hybrid Plattform warmly invite you to the final postdisciplinary colloquium in the series “Research Ecologies.”

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.

Join us for our final Colloquium of 2025 under the theme:

Territorial Trajectories

The Colloquium will bring together three projects that offer a rich array of interdisciplinary approaches, and all of which deal with the critical examination of space, environment, and social dynamics. These project have each used innovative methods from critical cartography and more-than-human perspectives to performative science, autoethnographic narratives as well as artistic field research. What they have in common is their endeavor to bring underrepresented stories and actors (polar oceans, East German lakes, post-Soviet rural women) to the fore and to explore new forms of knowledge production and dissemination that transcend traditional academic boundaries. The projects illustrate the potential of artistic-scientific research to examine complex ecological and sociopolitical challenges in a profound and engaging way. Our speakers include:

• Nika Grigorian (HfK Bremen)
  Women's Cultivation Practices in Post-Socialist Rural Contexts
• Cory Tamler & Alex Viteri (UdK Alumni)
  Gruss vom Helenesee
• Aniella Sophie Goldinger (TU Berlin)
  ENVIRONING TERRITORIES: Data-extractive practices and the mediation of space in the Southern and Arctic Ocean

Access Information

The event will be held in spoken German and English. Drinks and snacks will be available. The room is wheelchair accessible, but the accessible toilet is currently unavailable due to renovation work. If you have any special accessibility requirements, please contact us in advance so that we can provide you with the best possible support.

Free entry, no pre-registration necessary

Date: Tuesday, 18. November 2025
Time: 5 – 7pm
Venue: Room 202, Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences, Einsteinufer 43, Berlin
Contact: bas3@intra.udk-berlin.de

We look forward to seeing you at the Colloquium!