Sensing Common Grounds. Towards Collaborative Speculation

The roundtable addresses current challenges at the intersection of critical humanities scholarship and design research by discussing nuanced means of knowing and making. It attends to collaborative speculation in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts to sense and unearth common grounds through the reality of the ecological predicament. Together with our guests, we ask about the narratives, prototypes, norms, materials and media that hold knowledge (and non-knowledge) of such speculations and public imaginaries: How to unlearn and unmake dominant modes of worldmaking by cutting across disciplines, foregrounding embodied knowledges, situated inquiry and extra-academic encounters?

Alice Jarry (Concordia, Montréal)
Camilla Andersson (Stockholm)
Claudia Mareis (HU Berlin)
Julia Lohmann (Aalto, Helsinki)
in conversation with Léa Perraudin and Martin Müller

The event is part of the closing activities of CollActive Materials, an experimental laboratory of the Berlin Clusters of Excellence »Matters of Activity« (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and »Science of Intelligence« (Technische Universität Berlin), funded by the Berlin University Alliance.