Fieldstations is a non-profit association based in Berlin. It was founded in 2016 by Christophe Barlieb with the support of Matthias Böttger, Cornelius Meyer, Nadine Kuhla von Bergmann, Hauke Helmer, Katharina Barlieb, Matthias Graf von Ballestrem, Lidia Gasperoni, and Thomas Stadler. Board 2016-2017: Christophe Barlieb, Cornelius Meyer, Matthias Böttger, Nadine Kuhla von Bergmann; Board 2017-2020: Christophe Barlieb, Jose Alcocer, Lidia Gasperoni, Matthias Böttger; Board 2020-2022: Lidia Gasperoni, Matthias Böttger, Christophe Barlieb, Corneel Cannaerts; Board 2022-present: Lidia Gasperoni, Corneel Cannaerts, Andrea Rossi, Hauke Helmer.
CHRISTOPHE BARLIEB is a cybercraft architect specializing in architecture design, fabrication, media theories, and practices. Co-founder of Meyk i.Gr., a new decentralized cyber manufacturing platform. Author of “Cybercraft: Das neue Paradigma,” co-editor of “Media Agency – Neue Ansätze zur Medialität in der Architektur.” Best known for the Green Desert Mine, Whispering Wind, and Vardø Arks projects. Full Professor, Chair of Design and Construction in VR/AR, and head of the Cybercraft Lab at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Regensburg, Faculty of Architecture and Regensburg School of Digital Sciences (RSDS). Co-founder and co-director of the CyberCraft Kolleg (CCK) at OTH Regensburg. Before tenure, Professor of Architecture Media at the Technical University of Berlin, Associate Professor at the Technical University Braunschweig and Technical University Berlin, and Visiting Professor at Shenkar College, Tel Aviv.
MATTHIAS BÖTTGER is an architect, curator and professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst HKG FHNW in Basel, where he leads the HyperWerk Institute. He is also curator of the German Architecture Centre DAZ in Berlin. He is a board member of Fieldstations.
CORNEEL CANNAERTS is an architect and researcher interested in the impact of computational design and robotic and digital fabrication on the culture and practice of architecture. He has obtained a Master’s degree in Architecture from Ghent University and a PhD in Architecture from SIAL/RMIT University Melbourne. He is currently researching and lecturing at the Faculty of Architecture of the KU Leuven and was a guest researcher at the Architectural Robotics and Computation Lab of the Aarhus School of Architecture. He has worked as an architect and designer, realizing projects both in his own name and in collaboration with architects and artists. His research and work have been presented, published and exhibited internationally and he has lectured and taught workshops internationally. He has co-founded MMlab, a digital fabrication lab at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture.
CLUB REAL is a group of artists, founded in Berlin in 2000, that has been realising participatory, site-specific projects, among others Organisms Democracy, a participatory project that strives to involve humans from all backgrounds as representatives of the citizen species with a strong focus on the neighbourhood of the state premises. Club Real currently consists of Mathias Lenz, Paz Ponce, Marianne Ramsay-Sonneck, and Georg Reinhardt.
DE JENZ is a collaboration between artists Vibeke Jensen and Santiago De Waele. Vibeke has lived and practiced as an artist in New York and Berlin for decades, and is also a visiting professor at Bergen School of Architecture since 2010. Santiago is from Belgium where he has built public artworks as technical director and co-curator of the Bruges Triennial for contemporary art and architecture from 2014-2021, and before that for three iterations of the Beaufort triennial sculpture project along the Belgian coast
LIDIA GASPERONI is an architectural theorist and philosopher. She is associate professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). Between 2018 and 2024 she was teaching and research associate at the Department of Architectural Theory of TU Berlin. She studied philosophy in Rome, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Berlin. She obtained her PhD from the TU Berlin and an associate professor habilitation in Italy in the field of philosophy. She teaches architectural theory and philosophy, with a focus on media philosophy, Anthropocene theories, and aesthetics at the TU Berlin and previously at the UdK Berlin as well as the University of Kassel. Her publications include: Versinnlichung (De Gruyter, 2016); Media Agency, with Christophe Barlieb (transcript, 2020); Artefakte des Entwerfens, with Anna Hougaard et al. (TU Verlag, 2020); Site of Coexistence (IQD, 2021); Construction and Design Manual: Experimental Diagrams, DOM publishers 2022; and Epistemic Artefacts. A Dialogical Reflection on Design Research in Architecture, with Matthias Ballestrem (AADR 2023). Regarding the Anthropocene see: “Anthropocene,” International Lexicon of Aesthetics, 2022 and “Anthropocene Masterpiece(s). Reversing the Logic from the Pieces to the Masteries,” Viceversa, 2022.
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KLAUS PLATZGUMMER is a tutor for History and Theory Studies at the AA School of Architecture and a research associate in the Department of Architecture Theory at TU Berlin. Platzgummer received an MA in History and Critical Thinking in Architecture with Distinction from the AA and holds an MSc in Architecture from ETH Zürich. Platzgummer studies media and techniques for the storage, transmission and organisation of data, information and knowledge in design and construction processes. He focuses on researching their transformations and geneses through the advent of electronic media, describing the sociotechnical assemblages and the global geographies that form and analysing their role in the orchestration of epistemic violences. Moreover, Platzgummer studies the methodological challenges and capacities that electronic media holds for historiography. He is part of the Augmented Historical Pedagogies research group, an international collaboration between MIT, Technion and TU Berlin.
PHILIPP REINFELD was „akademischer Rat“ and Deputy Head of the Institute of Media and Design (IMD), Dept. of Architecture, TU Braunschweig until 2022. Studied architecture at TU Berlin (Dipl.-Ing.) and architecture and urban research at AdBK Nuremberg (M. Arch.). 2016 PhD “Image-Based Architecture. Fotografie und Entwerfen” at the Institute for Architectural Theory and Architectural History at Innsbruck University (2018 published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag). 2006 to 2008 artistic assistant postgraduate study programme for architecture and urban research, AdBK Nuremberg. Teaching assignments at the Cologne International School of Design (KISD), TH Köln and Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. 2006 to 2013 partner in the architecture practice BOOM/ERA in close project cooperation with brandlhuber+. Editor of the publication series “Architektur der Medien | Medien der Architektur” (Architecture of Media | Media of Architecture) with Kassandra Nakas.
JENNIFER RAUM is a PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar. Her doctoral research explores utopian thinking with a focus on posthuman perspectives. Drawing on a wide range of theories from ecocriticism, philosophy and architectural theory, she traces realities beyond human exceptionalism. She is based in Nuremberg, Germany, where she finished her Master’s degree in Architecture in 2017. Since then, she has taught and lectured at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology, where she has led classes for undergraduate and postgraduate students in various design studios and seminars. Her teaching practice focuses on architectural theory, philosophy, and the environmental humanities.
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ANDREA ROSSI is an architectural researcher, computational designer and creative coder. He is a doctoral candidate at the DDU Digital Design Unit at TU Darmstadt, as well as research associate at the Experimental and Digital Design and Construction chair at the University of Kassel. His current focus is on combinatorial design, robotic fabrication and novel biomaterials. He is the developer of Wasp, an open-source Grasshopper plug-in for combinatorial design. Previously, he has been lecturer at UIBK Innsbruck, research associate at ETH Zurich, and robotic fabrication specialist at Coop Himmelb(l)au and at IndexLab – Politecnico di Milano. He taught courses and workshops on digital design tools and fabrication at various institutions worldwide, as well as on several online platforms. He holds a BSc in Architecture (2011) from Politecnico di Milano and a Master of Arts in Architecture (2013) from the Dessau International Architecture Graduate School.
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ISABELL SCHRICKEL is a PhD candidate at the Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation (Leuphana University / Arizona State University). She studied Media Theory, History and Journalism in Berlin and Basel. In 2017 Isabell was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Department of the History of Science. Her research interests include the history and epistemology of the environmental sciences and the evolution of sustainability thinking.platforms. He holds a BSc in Architecture (2011) from Politecnico di Milano and a Master of Arts in Architecture (2013) from the Dessau International Architecture Graduate School.
GABRIELA VOLANTI is an artist based in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle have featured Gabriela Volanti’s work.
BIRGITTA WEIMER is an artist engaged in the Anthropocene. In her installations since the 1990s, there have been recurring phenomena that could be described as stylistic devices of the Anthropocene: The magnification of biological microstructures undermines the anthropocentric worldview and relegates humans to a subordinate role. The multiplication of simple forms gives rise to emergent structures analogous to nature. Working with non-humans teaches her humility. Using mirrors, she includes the viewer in what is observed, thus eliminating the separation between subject and object. In short, she is working on a new visual language of the Anthropocene. Birgitta Weimer ‘s sculptures and installations can be seen in some German art museums such as Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Osthaus Museum Hagen and Kunsthalle Mannheim.
TILL ZIHLMANN teaches and researches as a research assistant at the Institute for Building Climatology and Energy of Architecture at the TU Braunschweig. After completing his Bachelor’s degree at the UDK Berlin, he worked as an architect for three years. During his Master’s degree at the TU Berlin, he met the Designosaur. The story “How I Met the Designosaur” led him to conceive the Post-Designosaur Studies in Architecture. What drives him is the question of contemporary design and new narratives in a present that is unknown to us – an alien environment. Post-Designosaur Studies in Architecture develops practices at the intersection of natural science, humanities and design. The practices serve as a tool to overcome habitual thought patterns and should help to develop a new view towards our environment – the context in which we design. In this sense: Design Imprints. Not Buildings!
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