Prof. Dr. Robert Stock

Articles in Edited Volumes

Stock, R. 2024. »Politiken der Langsamkeit. Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen Disability-Forschung und Environmental Dis-/Humanities.« In KörperZeiten. Narrative, Praktiken und Medien, edited by Wallerstein, Konstanze, Röderer, Fabian, Bolz, Manuel Schriftenreihe der Isa Lohmann-Siems Stiftung, Bd. 17. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 195-218.
https://doi.org/10.5771/9783496030928-195

Stock, R. 2022. »Hearing echoes as an audile technique.« In Techniques of Hearing, edited by Schillmeier, Michael, Stock, Robert, Ochsner, Beate London: Routledge, 55-65.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003150763-6

Stock, R. 2019. »Gehmaschinen: Menschen, Tiere und Gehirn-Maschine-Schnittstellen als hybride Kollektive.« edited by Bolinski, I., Rieger, S. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 89-108.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04941-4_6

Stock, R. 2016. »Körper im/als Schaltkreis. DIY-Apparaturen und audiovisuelle Praktiken sinnlicher Wahrnehmung.« In Technisierte Lebenswelt. Über den Prozess der Figuration von Mensch und Technik, edited by Adam, M.-H., Gellai, S., Knifka, J. Bielefeld: transcript, 89-104.
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430798-005

Articles

Asa, P., Krauthausen, K., Stock, R., Dierichs, K. 2024. »Architectures of syntopia: An interdisciplinary speculative model for constructions with insect-infested wood.« In Material transitions in architecture and construction: Social implications, appropriation, and outcomes for sustainability, special issue. TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 33 (3): 48-56.
https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.7153

Stock, Robert. 2024. »Blindness, Acoustic Environing and Sensing Technologies (ca. 1950-1980).« In Media and Disability - Part I, special issue. PuntOorg International Journal, 9 (1): 5-30.
https://doi.org/10.19245/25.05.pij.9.1.2

Stock, R. 2022. »Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems.« Mobilities, 18 (1): 132-147.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2057810

Stock, R. 2022. »Mobilität und Tuning-Prozesse. Zur Reorganisation materiell-sensorischer Praktiken blinder Fußgänger:innen durch digitale Medien.« Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, 2022: 25-50.
https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2022.03

Ochsner, B., Spöhrer, M., Stock, R. 2021. »Rethinking Assistive Technologies: Users, Environments, Digital Media, and App-Practices of Hearing.« NanoEthics, 16: 65–79.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00381-5

Stock, R. 2013. »Retina-Implantate. Neuroprothesen und das Versprechen auf Teilhabe.« AugenBlick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, (58): 100-111.
https://doi.org/10.25969/MEDIAREP/2690

Reviews of Books & Exhibitions

Stock, R. 2022. Coreen McGuire 2020: Measuring difference, numbering normal. Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period und Jaipreet Virdi 2020: Hearing Happiness. Deafness Cures in History. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-021-00321-8

Stock, R. 2021. Kyle Devine: Decomposed. The Political Ecology of Music. Decomposed. The Political Ecology of Music, Kyle Devine, MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews, 38 (1): 61-62.
https://doi.org/10.25969/MEDIAREP/15803

Exhibitions

Büsse, M. (curator), de Visscher, E. (curator), Banz, C., Dean, M., Dierichs, K., Eder, M., Eigen, L., Guiducci, L., Hehemeyer-Cürten, J., Jalkh, H., Kycia, A., Mareis, C., Nyakatura, J. A., Rasehorn, F., Rešetar, I., Ribault, P., Sauer, C., Sauer, I., Schneider, M., Stock, R., Shone, J., Wenig, C. Design Lab #13. Material Legacies. Exhibition. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum of Decorative Arts. Kunstgewerbemuseum. 3 November 2022 - 26 February 2023.
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/kunstgewerbemuseum/exhibitions/detail/design-lab-13/
Highlighted by TAZ, 15.11.2022.

Public Engagement

Almpani-Lekka, Dimitra, Asa, Pelin, Dierichs, Karola, Ficht, Johanna, Göngrich, Erik, Kieffer, Lynn Hyun, Kubelík, Anna, Meyer, Vera, Stock, Robert, Wilhelm, Nora. 2024. Symbiotic Futures 1.0. Workshop. Berlinische Galerie, with Philippi, Nils. Berlin. Germany. 5 June 2024.
https://berlinischegalerie.de/veranstaltung/symbiotic-futures-1-0/

Stock, Robert, Saerberg, Siegfried. 2023. Be_hinderte Natur. Beschädigte Landschaften und sinnliche Diversität in anthropozänen Umwelten. Podium discussion. Klima_Ungerechtigkeiten, Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften im Humboldt Labor. Humboldt Labor, Berlin. Germany. 17 June 2023.
https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/gespraech/klima_un_gerechtigkeiten-79726/

Stock, Robert, Wenig Charlett, Behrendt, Ferréol, Stolle, Nikolai. 2023. Round Table »Rinde: Gestaltung mit Resten«. Podium discussion. Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Berlin. Germany. 26 January 2023
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/9695/round-table-rinde-gestaltung-mit-resten

Talks & Presentations

Robert Stock. Diskontinuierliche Zeitlichkeit: Crip Time und die Perspektive der Environmental Dis-/Humanities. Panel Presentation at the KörperZeiten. Narrative, Praktiken und Medien, ZEITERZÄHLUNGEN UND KÖRPERWISSEN. Warburg-Haus, Hamburg. 11 February 2023.
https://www.gw.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/aktuelles-forschung/2023/tagung-koerperzeiten.html

Stock, Robert. Acoustic Ecologies: Electronic travel aids for the blind as filtering technologies (ca. 1950-1970). Panel Presentation at the Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics, SESSION 2.2.4. MULTI- AND CROSSMODAL PERCEPTION I. Montreal, CA. Concordia University. Hybrid. 4 May 2023.
https://sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/ucs3/en/ucs-iv

Stock, Robert. Mangroves Matter: Troubling Knowledges, Vernacular Architecture and Climate Resilience at the Coasts of Postcolonial Mozambique. Panel Presentation at the Luso-Ecologies: More-Than-Human Complexities, Agency, and Resistance in the Lusophone Anthropocene, Plant ecologies. Oxford, Uk. Hybrid. 30 March 2023.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/10550/mangroves-matter

Stock, Robert. Forests as Techno-Natures: Translating Digital Environmental Subjects. Panel Presentation at the EASST Conference "The Politics of Technoscientific Futures", ForeSTS. Madrid. 6 July 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/8441/forests-as-techno-natures-translating-digital-environmental-subjects

Stock, R. Sonic E-Mobility: Blindness and Mobility-Technology-Assemblages. Panel Presentation at the Conference Uncommon Senses III 2021, Session 2.2.4: SENSORY ALTERITY/CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES I. Montreal, Canada. Virtual. 7 May 2021.
https://sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/ucs3/en/uc3-2021/schedule/601/Session%202%202%204:%20SENSORY%20ALTERITY/CRITICAL%20DISABILITY%20STUDIES%20I

Stock, R., Schwesinger, S. Sounding Out the Anthropocene Ocean. Talk at the 25. Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Conference »Digital Matter«, Water As Medium. Berlin. 5 July 2009.
https://www.drha.uk/2021/

Invited Moderation/ Comment

Jasper, Sandra, Cubasch, Alwin, Stock, Robert, Gruendel, Anke. Sandra Jasper: Botanical Alterlife. Deep Material Futures: Exploring the Different Temporalities of Active Matter, MoA's Annual Conference, Wastelands, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 16 November 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/9051/deep-material-futures

Events & Workshops

Christoph Brunner, Rahel Kesselring, Robert Stock. With Contributions by: Lara Almarcegui, Clara Balaguer, Martino Morandi, Vishnu Vardhani Rajan, Katherine G. Sammler, Femke Snelting Critical Times II: Ecologies of Relation II. Buitenplaats Brienenoord and RASL Rotterdam Arts and Science LAB, Rotterdam NL. 11 April 2024 - 13 April 2024.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/13303/critical-times-part-ii-ecologies-of-relation

Vera Meyer, Nora Wilhelm, Erik Göngrich (Mitkunstzentrale), Dimitra Almpani-Lekka, Pelin Asa, Karola Dierichs, Lynn Hyun Kieffer, Aarhus School of Architecture, Anna Kubelík, Robert Stock. Symbiotic Futures 1.0. Berlinische Galerie. 5 June 2024.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/13726/?preview

Brunner, Christoph, Kesselring, Rahel, Mareis, Claudia, Stock, Robert Critical Times I. Multiple Matter. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 17 November 2023 - 18 November 2023.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/11626/critical-times-part-1-multiple-matter

Auger, James, Mareis, Claudia, Lockwood, Joe, Razghandi, Khashayar, Stock, Robert, Weber, Rasa. Frictioned Functionality. Un/Designing Un/Sustainable Matter. Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 22 October 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/8495/frictioned-functionality-un-designing-un-sustainable-matter

Cubasch, A. J., Cypko, M. A., Geoghegan, B., Miyazaki, S., Moeding, A., Müller-Birn, C., Stock, R. Automation, Control, and Incompetence. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 1 December 2022 - 2 December 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/7904/automation-control-and-incompetence-socio-technical-ecologies-of-responsible-filtering-in-the-20th-and-21st-century

Bieling, T., Şahinol, M., Wiechern, A.-L., Stock, R. ANN: Access and Tinkering: Designing Assistive Technologies as Political Practice. The third »Dis/Abilities and Digital Media« Network Meeting with an Interactive Maker Session. Virtual. 16 September 2021 - 17 September 2021.
https://dis-abilities-and-digital-media.org/index.php/de/treffen-liste/120-3rd-meeting-access-and-tinkering

Stock, R., Dierichs, K., Bonavia, E., Zachow, S., Rodriguez, L., Le Calvé, M., Gholami, M. F., Kim, Y. Workshop »Sounding Invisible Boundaries. Experiments in Haptic Thinking«. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 2 June 2021.

Teaching & Courses

Robert Stock. Dis-Ability Environments: Zur Verschränkung von Be_Hinderung und ökologischer Kritik. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 April 2023 - 17 July 2023.

Razghandi, K., Mareis, C., Stock, R., Auger, J., Lockwood, J., Wenig, C., Norris, L., Stark, S., Weber, R., Bühn, S., Clark, J., le Calvé. M. »Frictioned Functionality: Un/Designing Un/Sustainable Matter«. »Dark Fluidity. An immersive exploration of liquid ontologies in practice along the multispecies material ecologies of the Schwärze river«. MoA's First Interdisciplinary Autumn School., Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 22 October 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/8495/frictioned-functionality-un-designing-un-sustainable-matter

Robert Stock. Postkoloniale Verästelungen des Wissens. Wie Film und Literatur mit Bäumen denken. Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 13 February 2023.

Stock, R. Der Baum am Ende der Welt. Kultur- und wissensgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf Wälder und Holz im Schwarzen Anthropozän. Seminar, Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 18 April 2022 - 18 July 2022.

Memberships

Stock, R. 2020 - 2023. Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media. Speaker.
https://dis-abilities-and-digital-media.org/index.php/en/project