
Lockdown Madness / Julia Beck & Nadine Sturm
35-year-old Charlotte wanted to turn her life around, and she wanted to do it properly. She has been struggling with her job at the advertising agency for a long time and things are not going well with her family. But only her best friend knows how much she is seething. And maybe that‘s just as […]

(de)Compressor / Bogdan Casovskij & Valeria Kirejenko
To construct our research, it was decided to give it a form of a diary. To understand it as a wholesome, it needed to be encumbered additionally to traditional architecture Gestaltung with ideas from outside, from culture and science.We choose to work with Henry Carson who was mentioned in our previous studies on “Technobiophilia”.He is […]

The Deus ex Ma(s)china series / Lorenz Foth
lat. Deus ex Machina English: ‘god from the machine’ is a term used to describe the event of a seemingly unsolvable conflict being solved abruptly and surprisingly by an unexpected force in a plot. Bringing a surprising effect and e.g. making a happy ending or a comedic moment possible – as suggests Varun Gwalani in […]

Undercover Daydreaming: Playing with Architecture / Stephanie Topf
The “Anthropogame” is a speculative journey–a miniature experience–for urban explorers and wanderers through the anthropogenic cityscape of tomorrow. It is a kind of futurespective that offers help in an interactive way to gain a better understanding of the possible challenges a city might face in the future.The game developed here might be seen an action […]

The only Exit / Dominik Kroell, Philipp Wisiol, Stephan Hoellwarth
Global pandemics, natural disaster, the effects of climate change or nuclear accidents led top a global, worldwide isolation. We are imprisoned in our own homes and the intact world as we know it, has stopped. These disasters are pushing us forcefully forward to a new digital, virtual age at breakneck speed. How do we satisfy […]

Nature’s Revenge: The Aftermath Of Climate Change – The Movie Script / Chloe Stiefer
A spacious, two-floor loft penthouse on the 52nd floor of a skyrise building near the Marina Bay, covered in blue and golden façade panels. The lights of the penthouse are turned off. The living area and the kitchen space are ranging a vast 8-meter ceiling height. A gargantuan chandelier adorned in clear crystals is dangling […]

Followings: Form follows sound follows form / Larissa Groß
Juhani Pallasmaa, a finnish architect who has been dealing with perception in and of architecture during his whole career, emphasizes that in contrast to our impression of architecture as a dominantly visual experience, it is actually a multi-sensory one, where in his view seven realms of sensory experience – eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton […]

Transhuman Territory / Melanie Hofmeister & Maxime Victor
„I still think, that within a few generations it will be possible to transform the substrate of our humanity.“ Nick Bostrom Humans have always striven for something higher. Whether it is overcoming death or attaining a state of omniscience. This ambition has driven humans for thousands of years and has brought many new discoveries and […]

A journey around the hyperconscious / Magdalena Recheis & Florian Fesel
A 27-year old french man called Xavier de Maistre who undertook a journey in his bedroom in 1790. He loved discovering, as it was a trend already at this time. Discovering the world and travelling to other continents. Xavier’s dream was to fly, so he tried to build a pair of giant wings and wanted […]

Nature’s Revenge: The Aftermath Of Climate Change / Chloe Stiefer
The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of the 22nd decade has led to a global lockdown.With most of the countries across the continents deciding on a quarantine obligation for its citizens, everyday life has changed. Most outdoor activities were not permitted during the spring months in 2020.People were so-to-say forced staying at home, staying indoors. […]

Paratecture Theory / Leo Schleith
It is hard to define where our current Anthropocene era is thriving, but one must agree that the ongoing problematic of climate change, and exploitations of natural resources can neither lead to a brighter future for mankind nor to a Sci-Fi highly technologically advanced society (as pictured in many utopian, as well as dystopian, stories). […]

Car:Lessness – A desire Named No Streetcar / Stephanie Topf & Leo Schleith
“Any I that responds to the Anthropocene—that intercepts the Anthropocene as address— responds to and within a broad, uncomfortable, and for most of the human population frankly unfair we. More than a conceptual tool for altering our relationship to the earth—as a particularly potent enthymeme in climate activist discourse—the Anthropocene is a material interruption that […]