Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Nordeuropa-Institut

The Media Practice research group explores the impact of media on everyday life, culture, and society through interdisciplinary approaches utilizing perspectives from anthropology, ethnology, geography, visual communication, and practical media production studies, among others. In this seminar, the lectures and the workshops will approach creativity and collaboration by focusing on dialogue and visuals as elements. In lectures and workshops, we will work on the topic from different perspectives; theoretical, collaborative research, media-based methods, and embodied practices.

• Gudrun Rudningen and Aina Landsverk Hagen: On Collaborative Creativity: An Introduction
• Becky Beamer: Documentary as Witness, Bricoleur, and Sustainable Research Practice
• Aina Landsverk Hagen and Gudrun Rudningen: Creativity & Exploration: Matter out of Place
• Frode Nordås: How can TikTok's duet feature create an interactive dialogue between two users.
• Patrick Kollman: Kino-eye(s) - Collaborative documentation of the world with the film camera in your pockets
• James Lowley: Creativity & Experimentation: Matter in Place

Collaborative Future Making is based on humanity's inability to imagine how the world could be different. A key concept is 'critical imagination'. It involves questioning fundamental assumptions, norms, and structures to broaden our perspectives on what could constitute socially, culturally, ecologically, and economically sustainable futures. It explores how we can imagine these alternative futures and collectively design, test, and debate them. We do this through prototypes and discussions involving people from all societal sectors. The interdisciplinary research platform includes perspectives from humanities, design, and social sciences. The block-seminar will among others introduce the research project “Grief and Hope in transition”, who worked with citizens in a village in Skåne to explore transitions in everyday practices, values, imaginations and world views. In some cases, this transition also involves loss, in terms of resources, things and mobilities.

Lecturers:

• Dr. Per-Anders Hillgren is a professor in interaction design at the School of Arts and
  Communication and coordinates the research platform Collaborative Future-Making
  at Malmö University.
• Kristina Lindström is a Senior lecturer at the School of Arts and Communication and works within the intersection between participatory design, speculative design, and feminist technoscience. tutaj
• Prof. Dr. Laura Popplow is professor in participatory design and transformation design at Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Cologne International School of Design, where she has built the interdisciplinary bachelor of science Code & Content.

Nyksund Reloaded is an international artistic research project re-activating “The International Nyksund Project” (1984-92), an innovative but largely unknown youth and environmental programme in the former fisher village of Nyksund, Northern Norway in the 1980-90´s. The project was initiated and led by pedagogues, engineers, and architects from 1980s West Berlin.

3000 youths from all over Europe participated in its time. They aimed to create a
Utopia for young people, an eco-youth-city of the north. What are the relevance
of their ideas and practices today? What can be learned from the exchange
between the participants and the local community? How can an archive of their
legacy be material for re-thinking sustainability and place development in
rural areas?

Asking such questions Nyksund Reloaded explores how materials of the past may help us address future challenges.

Nyksund Reloaded consists of Hai Ku / artist and researcher Elisabeth Brun, with the Berlin-based media artists Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hámos

In this block seminar, we will explore how we can interact with the Nyksund space by using the archive. The students will test the prototype, and through discussions and collaboration explore further developments of the interface and usage of the Nyksund archive.

Lecturers:

• Dr. Elisabeth Brun, PhD. is a filmmaker, media artist, and theorist, working in the intersection of philosophy, experimental film practice, and visual art.
• Katja Pratschke: as a media artist and artistic researcher, Katja Pratschke (Berlin) has been collaborating with Gusztáv Hámos (Budapest/Berlin) on the theory and practice of intermedia arts for over 20 years.
• Prof. Dr. Shintaro Miyazaki is media studies and STS scholar working in the field of Digital Media and Computation, with a special interest in the intersection between music and critical media research.