We have some exciting news at CRC 1265! We are happy to announce that the Collaborative Research Center 1265 „Re-Figuration of Spaces“ will be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a third funding phase and thus for a further four years, from January 2026 to the end of 2029! We look forward to the coming years and will keep you informed about new projects and results here on a regular basis.
Thank you to everyone involved for making this possible! To our collaborating institutions @tu_berlin@humboldt.uni@uni_fau , the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and of course to the DFG!
Find out more about the next funding phase here: /geplante-teilprojekte-2026-2029/
Also find new job offerings for the next phase here: /aktuelles/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen-des-sonderforschungsbereichs-1265-re-figuration-von-raeumen/
Photos 1 & 2: Workshop at the CRC 1265 Conference „Mapping as Joint Spatial Display“ at HKW Berlin
Photo 3: Opening of the exhibition „Spatial Conflicts“ at Bauhaus Reuse (BHROX)
Photo 4: CRC 1265 Spokesperson Martina Löw
Photo 5: Table Configuration by Nikolaus Gansterer for the publication „Atlas of Spatial Figures“
#sfb1265 #sociology #refiguration #sociologyofspace #urbanstudies #architecture #urbanism #ethnography #anthropology #tuberlin #huberlin #fauerlangennürnberg #interdisciplinaryresearch
📅 Save the date: May 21, 4 – 6.30 pm📍TU Berlin
We warmly invite you to our inaugural event “Spaces for the Future” on May 21, which marks the beginning of the third funding phase of our Collaborative Research Center. It features a keynote lecture by Professor Sujata Patel titled “The Peripheral Gaze, Critical Theory and Anti-Colonial Social Theory.”
To join us at the event, please register here before May 15: /de/events/019c41df-731d-7a48-a9af-389a87fb90ae/apply (link in Bio)
We hope to see you there!
🎥Now Online: The 8th Intersections-Film „Multiple Spatialities VIII: Umkämpfte Räume“ (in German language).
Im achten Schnittstellenfilm des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1265 Re-Figuration von Räumen sprechen Martina Löw (Sprecherin des SFB), Francesca Ceola und Qusay Amer (C08) sowie Margherita Tess und Indrawan Prabaharyaka (C05) über umkämpfte urbane Räume aus ihren jeweiligen Kontexten der Raumproduktion von Geflüchteten, sowie der zunehmenden Erhitzung städtischer Räume in Zeiten der Klimakrise.
Concept: Janin Walter, Henrik Aleith and Thomas Adebahr
Find the video on our YouTube channel @sfb1265 !
#sfb1265 #video #socialsciences #sciencecommunication
🎥 Online now! Watch the lectures from our 7th international conference in November 2025 on our YouTube channel now!
The conference „Designing Refiguration / Refiguring Design. Exploring Practices of Changing Spaces“ aimed to examine how spatial refiguration is designed, how it influences design, and how design can foster innovative rethinking that addresses the growing complexity of social change and its spatial implications.
watch now:
Jörg Stollmann (SFB 1265) – Designing Homophily. A Visual Essay
Ignacio Farías (SFB 1265) – Design in Re (Minor): On the Processuality of Re-Figuration
Angela Million (SFB 1265) – Hybrid (Youth) Spatiality: Planning under Refiguration
Philipp Misselwitz (SFB 1265) – Architectures of Asylum and Changing Practices of Solidarity in Berlin
Séverine Marguin (SFB 1265) – Staging Desirability in West-African Afronovelas
Jochen Kibel (SFB 1265) – Refiguring Landscapes - Designing Subjects?
as well as lectures from
Georgeen Theodore (Interboro) – People, Property and Practice: Neighborhood Planning Now in the USA
Deane Simpson (Royal Danish Academy) – On the Multiscalar, and Other Refigurations
Gabu Heindl (Universität Kassel) – Composing Holes and Decomposing Wholes: Nonsolution as a Concept in Planning Practice
find the videos here:
/@sfb1265 /videos (link in Stories & Bio)
📝 New on the CRC 1265 Blog: „Between Borders and Blankets: The Hidden Realities of Homeless EU Citizens“
On a recent trip to Brussels Zoé Perko, former PhD Candidate at CRC 1265, was struck by stark contrasts between polished European institutions and harsh realities of homeless people side by side. In the new entry Zoé reflects on homeless EU citizens’ right to movement:
„That morning in Brussels, I couldn’t shake the image of someone sleeping under a panel in Schuman station, just steps away from the gleaming offices of the European institutions. It captured, in a single frame, the contradictions at the heart of the Union: a project built on promises of free movement and equality, yet unable to guarantee basic access for all who live within its borders, let alone for those arriving from beyond them...“
Zoé Perko was a scientific researcher and PhD candidate in the subproject C01, “The Borders of the World II,” where she analysed tensions surrounding regional free movement regimes in Europe, Latin America, and West Africa. She wrote this blog post during her visiting fellowship at the Department of Transnational Legal Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2025.
Diesen Freitag, 6. Februar 2026, trifft der SFB 1265 „Re-Figuration von Räumen“ auf den SFB 1482 „Humandifferenzierung“ (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)!
Auf dem Podium: Martina Löw, Silke Steets und Jochen Kibel (SFB 1265, TU Berlin) sowie Stefan Hirschauer, Gabriele Schabacher und Mita Banerjee (SFB 1482, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz). Moderation: Tilo Grenz (Kreuzlingen)
Dies ist eine Sonderveranstaltung im Rahmen des Workshops „Dis/Kontinuitäten Theoretischer Empirie: Bilanzen, Perspektiven und Potenziale“, der am 6./7. Februar am Institut für Soziologie stattfindet. In der Podiumsdiskussion geben die beiden soziologisch geleiteten SFBs Einblicke in ihre Formate der Theoriebildung und diskutieren Chancen und Herausforderungen transdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit. Die Veranstaltung findet auf Deutsch statt.
Weitere Informationen findet ihr auf unserer website: /veranstaltungen/podiumsdiskussion-transdisziplinaeres-theoretisieren-und-formate-sozialer-theoriebildung/ (link in Story)
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
🎇🎧Starting the new year with a new Podcast Episode!
📻 Space Oddity #28 – Idea(l)s of home disentangled: A conversation with Michele Lancione
Host: Eva Korte
Guests: Michele Lancione, Judith Keller, Khushboo Jain
In this podcast episode, Eva Korte (PhD candidate, TU Berlin), Judith Keller (postdoctoral researcher, HU Berlin), and Khushboo Jain (PhD candidate, FAU Nürnberg-Erlangen) are in conversation with Michele Lancione (Politecnico di Torino), exploring his idea of a “liberatory politics of home,” which he outlined in his latest book. The episode was recorded as part of a workshop on different ideas and ideal of home, which explored the spatial politics and practices surrounding home research. Reflecting on the intricacies and the emotional labor involved in doing home research, the conversation with Michele Lancione helps to work through and reflect on issues such as research practice, fieldwork, positionality, and the political implications of our work.
Enjoy listening! Out now on our website: /einblicke/space-oddity/#space-oddity-28-ideals-of-home-disentangled (link in Bio) on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!
#sfb1265 #podcast #sociology
❄️🎄🎆 Wishing everyone happy and restful holidays and a good start into the new year. We’ll be taking a short social media break over the holidays to recharge - see you next year! We are excited to share with you the start of the third funding period in 2026! ✨💫
Out into space 🚀
Spacetimes Matter explores mapping as a critical, artistic and multimodal practice — spanning diagrams, games and immersive virtual environments to rethink spatial and temporal relations.
Edited by Jamie-Scott Baxter, Anna Juliane Heinrich, Séverine Marguin, Vivien Sommer
Design @studiogretzinger
Published by @jovis_verlag@sfb1265
#bookdesign #mapping #criticalmapping #spatialpractice #graphicdesign
As we are slowly starting to wrap up the year of 2025, let us remind you of some new entries from our interview series „looking back…“ on the CRC 1265 Blog!
„Looking back…“ is a series of short interviews with PhD candidates and PostDocs, reflecting on their experience at the CRC 1265.
The newest entries feature Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, a researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development at Technische Universität Berlin. He is a member of the CRC 1265 subproject A02 “The Spatial Knowledge of Young Adults” and a scientific coordinator of the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS);
Dr. Daniela Stoltenberg, postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin and the CRC 1265 in the subproject B05 “Translocal Networks.” Her research interests lie in communication geography, digital public spheres, new social movements, and computational research methods;
Dr. Sung Un Gang, scholar of media and cultural studies at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin. As a research associate at the CRC 1265, he investigates the everyday spaces and digital communication practices of queer inhabitants in Seoul, South Korea. His main research areas include queer and intersectional feminism, urban culture and space, and postcolonial historiography;
and Nicolas Zehner, PhD, postdoctoral researcher at the CRC 1265 at Technische Universität Berlin, as well as an associated researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute. Nicolas holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh. His research investigates the co-constitutive relationship between science, technology, and urban development.
enjoy reading! Find our blog here: /blog/ (link in bio)
#sfb1265 #tuberlin #blog #phd #postdoc #sociology #ethnography #culturalstudies #urbanstudies #urbanism #architecture #academia #socialsciences
📰 Build your own zine! 🗺️
Available on our website now is the first edition of our new „Space Talks“ Zine collection. This first edition by Dr. Jayde Lin Roberts and Jae-Young Lee focusses on the topic of „Urban Informality: A Persistent Matter of Concern“, based on research in Yangon, Myanmar 🇲🇲. Download, print and fold your own zine now via our website (link in Stories & Bio) - Swipe for an instruction how to fold your own zine! Find the full-length version alongside citation data on our website:
/einblicke/multimodale-formate/space-talks/urban-informality/
In Myanmar, formal institutionalisation does not necessarily correlate with justice, transparency, efficiency or societal benefit. Since the country’s second coup in 1962, the military government has used law and order rather than rule of law (see Cheesman, 2015) to impose regulatory mechanisms in arbitrary and repressive ways. As such, informal economies play a crucial role in the daily survival of many and actively reshape Yangon’s cityscape.
On the streets of Yangon, vendors and customers alike navigate the intricate web of pricing, territories and services through local and relational networks. Known as nalehmu (the notion of understanding in Burmese), this relational logic knits together mutual obligations and trust established through long-term interactions. Unlike formal contracts, nalehmu assures accountability and access through personal relationships rather than relying on the imagined consistency of legal systems.
This issue of SPACE TALKS critically explores how the neglect of informality as a concept can obscure complex mechanisms of urban life at the theoretical margins in the Global South.
#sfb1265 #spacetalks #zine #interdisciplinaryresearch #sociology #urbansociology #urbanstudies #architecture #urbanism #ethnography #tuberlin #myanmar
We are happy to announce that a new addition to our publication series with @routledgebooks has been published! „The Social Quality of Public Space“ ed. by Letteria G. Fassari and Martina Löw is now available in open access via /reader/download/f7188167-dbeb-49d6-8737-fc0a1f2b78fd/book/pdf?context=ubx (link in Stories)
Swipe for a summary and table of contents and enjoy reading!
#sfb1265 #sociology #urbansociology #sociologyofspace #urbanstudies #urbanism #architecture #routledge
