Projektarbeit

Die Startwoche 2023 widmet sich dem Thema "Collecting" aus fünf verschiedenen gesellschaftspolitischen und wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven. Während wir uns durch den Alltag bewegen, nehmen wir viele Praktiken des Sammelns als selbstverständlich und notwendig an, während andere Praktiken - wie besonders im Rahmen der Digitalisierung - eher einem kritischen Diskurs unterliegen. Doch welche Techniken, Motive und welche Ordnungsverfahren spiegeln diese Systematisierungen wider? Wie unterscheidet sich die materielle Sammlung von Dingen von der Erhebung abstrakter Informationen? Welche gesellschaftlichen Ideale begründen die Nutzung oder gar die Zerstörung oder Auflösung von Sammlungen und welche Folgen hat das Sammeln in den unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Kontexten?

Im Rahmen der Startwoche wirst Du diesen und weiteren Fragen in dem von Dir gewählten Schwerpunktthema gemeinsam mit Deiner Projektgruppe auf den Grund gehen. Zur Auswahl stehen Dir dabei folgende Themenbereiche:

  1. Kunst & Archive | Art & Archives
  2. Daten & Werte | Data & Values
  3. Macht & Rechte | Power & Rights
  4. Natur & Ressourcen | Nature & Resources
  5. Vertrauen & Anerkennung | Trust & Recognition

Nachstehend findest Du eine Übersicht über die Themen, die Du für Deine Projektarbeit wählen kannst. Klicke auf den Titel eines Themas, wenn Du mehr über den Inhalt erfahren möchtest. Oder scrolle einfach durch die fünf verschiedenen Schwerpunkte. Jedes Thema wird von drei Projektgruppen bearbeitet, die jeweils von einem oder einer akademischen Berater*in betreut werden, die euch während der Projektarbeit unterstützen.

Handreichungen zur Projektarbeit

In der Startwoche wirst Du von vier Modi des Denkens begleitet: Kooperatives Ich und Fragendes Ich, Vision und Kritik. Du kannst sie unterhalb dieses Textes herunterladen. Diese Handreichungen haben zwei Funktionen: Zum einen dienen sie als Basisinformationen zu den vier Aspekten Kritik, Vision, Fragen und Kooperation. Sie bieten eine erste Einführung in diese akademischen Modi, die im weiteren Verlauf des Studiums an der Leuphana Universität von großer Bedeutung sein werden. 

1st Topic: Art & Archives

Paintings, sculptures, drawings, and letters, as well as samples of sounds and smells, can be found in the collections of museums and archives. Collections offer a window into historical periods, diverse cultures, customs, and geographies. They contribute to a rich tapestry of human history and its understanding, but they are also both highly selective and inherently biased. Who decides what is selected, preserved, arranged, and classified? The practice of collecting is also an act of exclusion, marginalizing certain voices and perspectives while investing significant resources and expertise in acquiring, preserving, and studying the material being collected.  What efforts, resources, and appropriation processes are legally or ethically justifiable to place objects in the service of science, art, or society? Exploring the practices of collecting reveals how we have cared for art and archives, for better, but often also for worse.

Collecting the past and present for the future - responsibility and sustainability Clean up the museum!

Academic: Heike Düselder | Project Group Number: 01, 02 & 03

„Museums are the conductors of memory“, said the Dutch historian Adriaan de Jong many years ago. What a great responsibility! What happens if we forget something important? Should only works of art be preserved in the museum? What is so important in the present that it should be remember 100 years from now? Your challenge will be to create a vision for the museum of the future that focuses on social responsibility und sustainability. 

Research, transparency and ownership – Dealing with collections from colonial contexts in German Museums

Academic: Maik Jachens | Project Group Number: 04, 05 & 06

Since a few years (museal) collections from colonial contexts are an almost daily topic in German and international media. While prominent cases such as the Benin bronzes stand out, they are far from being representative. This project offers an insight into the task of investigating the origin of a collection from colonial contexts by looking closely at a set of objects kept in the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover. Its primary aim is to raise awareness for the complexity of the topic and the various questions underlying the future handling with such collections.

Retrospective Vision - Collecting Futures

Academic: Stephanie Regenbrecht | Project Group Number: 07, 08 & 09

Collections are at the heart of our museums and thus carry the complex founding intention of preserving the cultural achievements of the past and present into the future. However, the crises of the present and an increasingly global society challenge this system and make its problematic issues visible: Whose heritage do museum collections actually represent and is the endless accumulation of physical objects sustainable and contemporary? In this project group, we will get to know innovative museum projects on the topic of collecting in recent years, ranging from participatory processes of co-determination to digital access to the inclusion of non-European perspectives and deacquisition (de-collecting). Against this backdrop, we want to develop and discuss new narratives and forms of presentation for cultural objects of various kinds in the museum.

Revisiting Sound Archives – Critical Listening and New Auralities

Academic: Maren Haffke | Project Group Number: 10, 11 & 12

The visual term perspective has an aural equivalent: aurality. Parallel to the way our perspective organizes the way we look at a picture (who or what is in focus, who or what is in the background or out of frame) the aurality of a given sound recording structures the way we listen to it: whom do we identify with, who or what is silent, where do we localize the demarcation between making sense and making noise? In this project group we will lend our ear to current reevaluations of sonic knowledge production in and around sound archives and question how we listen to the past. What is present and what is absent in collections that have colonial history? Are there ways to make audible the ways in which sound archives amplify, contest, or repress certain voices and narratives? Can we challenge our perceptions and develop a new understanding of our relationship to sound and memory? 

Tricking figures: an Amazonian collection in Germany and the relationship between people, things and images

Academic: Fernanda Mendonça Pitta | Project Group Number: 13, 14 & 15

One group would work searching for information regarding Theodor Koch-Grunberg's trips to the Amazon, the collections he assembled, and where they are in Germany and Brazil, Students will be expected to research the Berlim collection of wax figurines and discuss how they pair with the Hamburg collection through the exam of the objects and writing sources. Finally, they will be encouraged to think of how we can address missing collections and their communication, both to communities related to these collections and to the general public. MARKK's collections were severely impacted by WWII, some items of Koch-Grunberg's collection disappeared in the war, Students will be encouraged to think of ways of working with the archives (catalog files with the drawing of the objects, documentation) in order to present these missing collections.

Saltpetre, Lithium and Copper. Collecting exhibits and memories from Chile. A search for traces for the German Port Museum in Hamburg

Academic: Ursula Richenberger | Project Group Number: 16, 17 & 18

The German Port Museum is dedicated to the various aspects of the "port" space, a hub where goods, knowledge and people are exchanged. An outstanding exhibit in the collection, which will be expanded in the future, is the sailing ship PEKING from 1911. It sailed to Chile from 1911 to 1932 to transport saltpetre, a valuable raw material at that time, from the Atacama Desert to Hamburg. This ship is and will be the starting point for many stories and for the launch of a collection. There´s a need to ask questions in order to find an approach to start this.
Who speaks? Whose stories, whose objects can be displayed? Whose stories are excluded so far? How can we prevent the collection from being biased? How can the museum collect ethically, professionally, participatively, give space to the diverse perspectives on the history and present of the connection between Chile and Germany and act sustainably?

Art(ificial) Intelligences: Collecting the Invisible

Academic: Sandra Neugärtner | Project Group Number: 19, 20 & 21

As MoMA’s “Never Alone”-Exhibition demonstrates, the debate about whether digital art qualifies as “art” is a tired if not outdated one. But if we approach the topic from the perspective of the institution and look at it in terms of the function of the museum, such as that of the collection/archive, the question immediately arises of the point of preserving art made of bits and bytes. We want to explore how digital media, the exploitation of the virtual worlds of the Internet and programming language, net art, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), digital commons, cyberfeminism, and performativity of data have entered the art world and contaminate the traditional functions of the institution, sometimes even render it obsolete when it comes, for example, to the question of object value, accessibility, visibility, and discourse.

2nd Topic: Data & Values

Data and value are interconnected concepts in the context of information and its usefulness. Data consists of raw, unprocessed facts, figures, and symbols. It contains individual pieces of information that, on their own, may not hold much significance. Value, on the other hand, refers to the usefulness, importance, or worth that data carries when it is transformed into meaningful information. Data in its raw form has the potential to hold value, but it is through the analysis, interpretation, and the appropriate application that data transforms into valuable information, allowing organizations to make informed decisions and achieve their objectives. The collection process of data is of paramount importance for its social and economic value. The way we collect data directly impacts its quality, relevance, and its usability! Likewise, the collection of data is always grounded in social, organizational, or individual values and decisions as to what is valuable enough to be collected in the form of data - and what is not. It is therefore worthwhile exploring which values are represented in collected data, which information is deemed unworthy to be collected in the form of data, as well as how these decisions then shape the social and economic value of data. 

Collecting minds: Generative AI & Surveillance capitalism

Academic: Stefanie Habersang | Project Group Number: 22, 23 & 24

We are living in a world of surveillance capitalism, where data is the most valuable commodity, and artificial intelligence (AI) is the most powerful tool to extract and exploit it. Surveillance capitalism is a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff to describe the new logic of accumulation that emerged from the digital economy, where data is extracted from people's online and offline activities and turned into predictive products that influence their behavior. New forms of generative AI are transforming the practices and consequences of surveillance capitalism, by enabling more sophisticated and invasive forms of data collection, processing, and monetization which in turn pose new challenges for democracy, human rights, and social (in-)justice.

Valuable exhibit or stolen memory

Academic: Melanie Janßen-Kim | Project Group Number: 25, 26 & 27

In museums worldwide, one can find objects that were bought, taken, or traded. For the museum, these are beautiful items, valuable artifacts that attract visitors. In the places where these objects originated, they were a part of the cultural heritage and a valuable part of history. Which value holds more significance, that of the collector or that of the culture of origin? Where do these objects belong, and what does their return or retention in the museum say about our current values today?

Mobile phones (Handys): The showcases to the world

Academic: Liselotte Hermes da Fonseca | Project Group Number: 28, 29 & 30

Can values be created through views and looks? The question could perhaps be turnes around: Can we gaze or look without creating values? For centuries, museums have been collecting 'valuable' things and exhibiting them – and we sink our gazes into the showcases to experience these values. Change of view: How many hours a day do we sink into our screens and how much valuable information do we collect doing so? Unlike (perhaps) the showcases, however, there is a gaze back from these screens: We too are 'seen'. We too have become valuable, we too are being displayed. Whether showcase or screen, both invisible glass screens enable (without laying a hand on?) a gaze that is supposed to give values and knowledge. – Together we will take a look at these connections between gazes, values and knowledge to see how and if they are conceivable – at the place of knowledge, the university.

Playful Learning of Artificial Intelligence Ethics

Academic: Johannes Katsarov | Project Group Number: 31, 32 & 33

The increasing usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in diverse areas, e.g., translation, art generation, medical research, or the screening of CVs, raises many ethical issues: biased algorithms can reinforce discrimination, AI can be used to deceive people, uncontrolled AI can lead to harmful outcomes. An important question is how students and professionals can be sensitized to these risks and problems. At Leuphana, a digital game has been designed to promote this sensitivity. We will focus on the question, whether and how this game sensitizes learners for ethical risks, and on some testing materials that have been developed for this purpose. You will discuss the digital game and testing materials critically, and generate visionary ideas how the game and tests could be improved.

What if transforming data into things, and things into data, were as simple as using a smartphone? What if everyone could make (almost) anything?

Academic: Raphael Haus | Project Group Number: 34, 35 & 36

In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that computer capabilities would double every 2 years for the next 10 years. It did not take just 10 years. We see this trend continuing until today. In parallel, over the past decade, the number of Fablabs has also doubled. A Fablab focuses on digital fabrication, in other words, learning how to convert data into physical objects and vice versa. The principles are based on open-source hardware development and distributed design. So the intriguing question is whether we can foresee the continued doubling of Fablabs and the scaling of digital fabrication for another 50 years? How would this transformation impact work, education, and play? Could this be the key to sustainable production and consumption?

Data Driven Society: What data do we need? What value do we want to achieve?

Academic: Stefanos Dimitriadis | Project Group Number: 37, 38 & 39

We all leave our traces on the Internet.
These are not visually recognizable footprints but data of various kinds. Our data is collected by companies, government institutions and NGOs. The collected data is processed by algorithms so that it can be successfully analyzed. This is usually done legally and sometimes illegally. Basically, these organizations are interested in understanding their citizens better, making their customers personalized offers that are irresistible, and drawing society's attention to social and ecological grievances. In this panel we want to find out which data we should collect in the future as a data-driven society and which benefits we can generate with this data.

3rd Topic: Power & Rights

The relationship between power and rights is multifaceted and complex. Power can both facilitate the promotion and protection of rights and present obstacles to their realization. Conversely, rights may be understood both as a constraint on power or as an expression of power. Rather than approaching these two concepts through the traditional State vs. citizen paradigm, we will consider their meaning and relationship in the context of inter-State relations in the 21st century. Moreover, we will not limit our study of power and rights to the disciplines of international law and international relations but will also consider other, for example historical, perspectives. Questions that we might consider include whether the notions of power and rights of States are necessarily in tension or whether (and how) they can be reconciled. For this purpose, we will take a look at current events and crises on the regional and global level to revisit notions and narratives such as sovereignty, multilateralism and the rules-based international order. In particular, we will consider the role and shapes of international cooperation as a tool to accumulate collective power while safeguarding rights.

Ecodesign and fast fashion - EU-initiatives for more sustainable clothing

Academic: Thomas Schomerus | Project Group Number: 40, 41 & 42

The EU initiative against fast fashion is to be implemented, among other things, through new regulations on ecodesign. Under the new Ecodesign Regulation, clothing articles can be subject to more extensive sustainability requirements. For example, this concerns the durability and reparability of products, as well as reusability and recyclability.

The power of individual economic action in the socio-ecological transformation

Academic: Harald Hantke | Project Group Number: 43, 44 & 45

In the socio-ecological transformation process, two ideal-typical action paradigms confront each other with regard to economic activity: Commercial-economic action and household-economic action. Even if action is currently taken neither according to one nor the other ideal type, this confrontation shows a space of possible actions. We can all play an effective role in this space of possible actions.

Collecting 'Platzverweise' (orders of the police to leave). Defund the police and stop racist profiling in the so-called danger zones!

Academic: Simone Borgstede | Project Group Number: 46, 47 & 48

Black people and people of colour (POC) are stopped by the police in St. Pauli-Süd again and again. Some young Black men even try not to move in this neighbourhood anymore though they live here. Since 2016, a special police task force is occupying the area by day and night. Their narrative is that they fight 'publicly visible drug-related crimes’. Their practices can be categorized as racist profiling. They force Black people and POC to leave the area through ‚Platzverweise’. We will explore what this means to the affected people and how a strategy of defunding the police can open up alternative perspectives. 

Exploring Migration & Identity

Academic: Lea Gathen | Project Group Number: 49, 50 & 51

In a world marked by ever-evolving global dynamics, the concept of migration has become more relevant and complex than ever before. People from diverse backgrounds and cultures find themselves traversing borders, seeking new opportunities, and adapting to unfamiliar environments. As educators, scholars, and curious minds, we recognize the imperative of comprehending this phenomenon with depth and empathy.

Spaces of discipline and freedom: “PANOPTIC” or “BANOPTIC” institutions?

Academic: Olga Kytidou | Project Group Number: 52, 53 & 54

Looking for freedom or restriction in the facilities and spaces of Lüneburg, the groups of this project will look for places, buildings, rooms or locations, with or without people, to answer the following questions What does being free mean? Where can I have freedom? To what extent is my presence protected or restricted? The evaluation of the place will be approached with the theory of the "panopticon" (Foucault).

Power and Rights of (Anti-)Fascist Networks: From Allyship and Aesthetics in the Cultural Political Space

Academic: Cornelius Gesing & Anne Sonnenfroh | Project Group Number: 88, 89 & 90

With the topic we aim to investigate the moment when identities of different people come together and unite in a network. The motives for network formation are always either to secure or to claim rights (power). Aesthetics are used to make these motives visible. They are the key to communicating a network's identities to the outside world. Anyone who agrees with the motives of a network and uses their privileges to promote its visibility becomes a so-called ally. Allys support the spread of this network's aesthetic to other networks. If the motives are not agreed with, representatives of opposing identities can develop counter-aesthetics - a fight for the sovereignty of interpreting their own identity begins. We examine the building, communication and maintenance of networks using the example of (anti)fascist identities.

4th Topic: Nature & Resources

When Alexander von Humboldt explored the Americas, the collection of plant and animal specimens to ship them to Europe was a core objective. His and uncountable further collections compiled over centuries are an important source for natural sciences until today. For example, herbaria with dried plants or collections of wild bees can tell us the historical geographical distribution of species which today became (locally) extinct, and we might be able to link this loss of species to specific environmental drivers like changes in land use or climate. Without the collection of samples and data, we would not have been able, for example, to document the ongoing substantial loss of biodiversity. More recently, the collection of molecular and genetic data moved into the focus. 

Human-wellbeing would not be possible without the resources nature provides. However, it is a challenge to exploit resources in a sustainable way. Moreover, resources may depend on biodiversity, and, for example, with each species lost through overexploitation of tropical rainforests, we miss the chance to detect natural chemical compounds potentially valuable for pharmaceutical use. While it is obvious that the collection of resources does not only have ecological consequences, but a strong economic component, also the legal perspective has broadened its scope in the past decades: to whom belongs knowledge collected from nature?

The trouble with ‘collecting’ capital: exploring radical alternatives of non-(capital)accumulating economies"

Academic: David Abson | Project Group Number: 55, 56 & 57

The current dominant economic systems of the world are premised on the unlimited and unsustainable accumulation of human-made capital (primarily infrastructure capital and financial capital). This capital ‘collection’ is dependent of the liquidation of limited stocks of natural capital, undermining the long-term ability of the environment to maintain itself and our economics systems. In these projects you will critically explore, radical alternatives to the current system that are not premised on unlimited capital accumulation, or on capital accumulation that is not dependent on the conversion of natural capital (for example circular economies, steady state economics, sharing economics, degrowth etc.).

Can we save the world by eating? The Planetary Health Diet

Academic: Leonie Schmitt | Project Group Number: 58, 59 & 60

The way we collect and harvest food significantly impacts the health of our planet - agriculture alone is responsible for 30 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Simultaneously, in countries like Germany, half of adults are overweight and face a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases due to unhealthy diets, while globally, 2 billion people suffer from malnutrition. To address this complex issue, scientists from the EAT-Lancet Commission have developed a concept aimed at nourishing our global population in a healthy and diverse manner without further burdening and exploiting the planet and its biodiversity: the Planetary Health Diet (PHD). Together, we will critically engage with the PHD and explore implementation possibilities, discussing what a dietary transition might look like.

Exploring relationships between the circular economy and the natural environment

Academic: Lukas Hogenschurz | Project Group Number: 61, 62 & 63

Our current economic system is based on a linear one-way system where raw materials are extracted from nature, transformed into products, and eventually disposed of. This causes constant pressure on the environmental system. In the project group, students will discuss how a circular economy can decrease pressure on environmental systems and how knowledge “created” by nature can be used to further advance the circular economy.

Sensory walking in neighbourhoods: criteria for well-being and favourite sites

Academic: Pia Redenius | Project Group Number: 64, 65 & 66

The project focusses on sensory experiences: We are walking the districts around the Leuphana University Lüneburg with a short research diary focussing on hearing, smelling, seeing and feeling. The project will connect sensual experiences with well-being. Additionally, it will be associated with the context of local sustainability.

Psychology and Sustainability: The Self-Regulation of Pro-Environemental Behavior

Academic: Timur Sevincer | Project Group Number: 67, 68 & 69

Protecting the environment is a pressing global challenge. Environmental threats include global warming, nature conservation, and clean air and water, among others. Although to address some of those challenges large-scale political decisions are needed, scientists, policymakers, and laypeople have recognized the importance of individual behavior change to master those challenges. In this project, we will shed light on what psychology and motivation science can contribute to help people behave in a more sustainable way. 

Mountain sports and the preservation of biodiversity

Academic: Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo | Project Group Number: 70, 71 & 72

While the world’s mountains encompass a great diversity of species and habitat types, some of them rare or endemic, these ecosystems are threatened worldwide. Among others, the variety of mountain sports (e.g. ski, climbing, trail running) results in a threat to biodiversity due to high erosion, big infrastructures associated, etc. Nevertheless, mountain sports can also have positive effects on biodiversity and sustainable sport models can guarantee the socio-economic development of mountain regions while ensuring biodiversity conservation. In this topic, we will discuss about the intricate relationship between mountain sports and biodiversity and we will collect ideas on the changes needed in mountain sports to promote nature conservation in the era of climate change.

5th Topic: Trust & Recognition

During their lives, people, organizations, and institutions collect resources and strive for recognition. Whether they succeed in their attempts to gain recognition, however, depends on the given situation, the involved people's personality, and how situations are organized. Moreover, the society in which people and organizations exist, plays a dominant part in how to gain recognition. E.g., in the case of a democratic society, arguments, respectful communication, reason, and performance gain recognition. In an autocratic society, in contrast, recognition goes to those who are loyal, obedient, assertive and, if necessary, unscrupulous and ruthless. In both cases, however, there are various situations that are uncertain and risky, and that therefore require trust (Lewis & Weigert, 2012). But what is trust? Various academic disciplines define trust as a state that involves the willingness of a person or group to make themselves vulnerable to another person, group, or institution whose reaction to the demonstrated willingness to trust cannot be predicted and/or controlled (Bormann et al., 2022). Within the focus, we will look at different facets of the relationship between recognition and trust. However, since recognition and trust are highly specific per situation, please choose a context that particularly interests you.

Doing Trust & Recognizing Vulnerability: Who trusts whom, where, when and why?

Academic: Laura Wenzel & Vanessa Schwenker | Project Group Number: 73, 74 & 75

Trust and trust building is an indispensable basis of society: We need trust in order to live and cooperate. However, trust and building trust is not a static condition, but rather an interactive, social process that is context- and situation-specific. Together with the project groups, we would like to explore how doing trust and recognizing vulnerability in different contexts influence each other and which roles for example, social identities, power structures and cultural norms play.

Recognition as a means to increase trust across group boundaries?

Academic: Birte Siem | Project Group Number: 76, 77 & 78

When we interact with a stranger or a person we are only superficially acquainted with, we constantly collect pieces of information (consciously or unconsciously) about whether we can trust the other. One such piece of information is the perceived group membership of the other person (based on dimensions such as race/ethnicity, religion, or gender): Often, we seem to trust members of our ingroups (e.g., people from “our” ethnic group) more readily and more spontaneously than members of an outgroup (e.g., people from a different ethnic group), especially when the outgroup is negatively stereotyped or when we fear being discriminated against by outgroup members. In our project, we will focus on the question whether gaining social recognition from outgroup members can promote trust across group boundaries. In doing so, we will refer to different socially relevant issues (e.g., flight and migration).  

Discover the Concept of Service Learning: Transforming Education & Empowering Communities

Academic: Saskia Samland | Project Group Number: 79, 80 & 81

Service learning is a teaching-learning format that has its roots in the United States and has gained recognition in German universities since 2003. Participants of Service Learning projects gain practical experience in community service while simultaneously acquiring and reflecting on academic knowledge in the university. It intended to develop specialized knowledge by referring to real needs in society and to foster the personalities, political awareness aswell as strengthens learners' social engagement and responsibility towards their community (Reinders, 2016).

"I profess" - Trust and casing in the social drama of work

Academic: Lars Alberth | Project Group Number: 82, 83 & 84

“I profess.” This phrase is the common denominator of any professional service rendered to all sorts of clients. However, this dedication to the clients’ individual problems comes with a specific drama: While the client has to be honest and open about their past action and their individual failings, they also have to trust the professional to provide a remedy for their acute trouble. This trust is grounded in expectations of professional competence. Good service results from having worked on innumerable clients by turning the latter into “cases of X”, a collection which allows proper professional work (diagnosis, inference, and treatment), but might also eat away at the client’s trust.

Africa-Europe relations: time for trust?

Academic: Ilsemargret Luttmann | Project Group Number: 85, 86 & 87

In official political speeches the relations between Europe and the African continent are framed in terms of trust and partnership intentionally used to create the impression of shared interests and values, equal rights, and conviviality. In this workshop we try to investigate into the – manipulative – use of these terms by European governments and institutions and then to have a critical look at the subsequent concrete strategies aimed at putting such a highly valued relationship into practice. Trust is built on recognition. What politics do European powers/authorities implement to do justice to their claims of trust and recognition? You have the unique chance to discuss these urgent questions with Nigerian critics from different social, ideological and professional backgrounds. 

Overview of Project Topics


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Project Topic


Academic

01


Art & Archives


Collecting the past and present for the future - responsibility and sustainability
Clean up the museum!


Heike Düselder

02
03
04


Art & Archives


Research, transparency and ownership – Dealing with collections from 
colonial contexts in German Museums


Maik Jachens

05
06
07


Art & Archives


Retrospective Vision - Collecting Futures


Stephanie Regenbrecht

08
09
10


Art & Archives


Revisiting Sound Archives  – Critical Listening and New Auralities 


Maren Haffke

11
12
13


Art & Archives


Tricking figures: an Amazonian collection in Germany and the relationship between people, things and images


Fernanda Mendonça Pitta

14
15
16


Art & Archives


Saltpetre, Lithium and Copper. Collecting exhibits and memories from Chile.
A search for traces for the German Port Museum in Hamburg


Ursula Richenberger

17
18
19


Art & Archives


Art(ificial) Intelligences: Collecting the Invisible


Sandra Neugärtner

20
21
22


Data & Values


Collecting minds: Generative AI & Surveillance capitalism 


Stefanie Habersang

23
24
25


Data & Values


Valuable exhibit or stolen memory 


Melanie Janßen-Kim

26
27
28


Data & Values


Mobile phones (Handys): The showcases to the world


Liselotte Hermes da Fonseca

29
30
31


Data & Values


Playful Learning of Artificial Intelligence Ethics


Johannes Katsarov

32
33
34


Data & Values


What if transforming data into things, and things into data, were as simple as using a smartphone? What if everyone could make (almost) anything?


Raphael Haus

35
36
37


Data & Values


Data Driven Society: What data do we need? What value do we want to achieve?


Stefanos Dimitriadis

38
39
40


Power & Rights


Ecodesign and fast fashion - EU-initiatives for more sustainable clothing


Thomas Schomerus

41
42
43


Power & Rights


The power of individual economic action in the socio-ecological transformation


Harald Hantke

44
45
46


Power & Rights


Collecting ‚Platzverweise’ (orders of the police to leave).
Defund the police and stop racist profiling in the so-called danger zones!


Simone Borgstede

47
48
49


Power & Rights


Exploring migration & identity


Lea Gathen

50
51
52


Power & Rights


Spaces of discipline and freedom: “PANOPTIC” or “BANOPTIC” institutions?


Olga Kytidou

53
54
55


Nature & Resources


The trouble with ‘collecting’ capital: exploring radical alternatives of non-(capital)accumulating economies"


David Abson

56
57
58


Nature & Resources


Can we save the world by eating? The Planetary Health Diet


Leonie Schmitt

59
60
61


Nature & Resources


Exploring relationships between the circular economy and the natural environment  


Lukas Hogenschurz

62
63
64


Nature & Resources


Sensory walking in neighbourhoods: criteria for well-being and favourite sites


Pia Redenius

65
66
67


Nature & Resources


Psychology and Sustainability: The Self-Regulation of Pro-Environemental Behavior


Timur Sevincer

68
69
70


Nature & Resources


Mountain sports and the preservation of biodiversity


Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo

71
72
73


Trust & Recognition


Doing Trust & Recognizing Vulnerability: Who trusts whom, where, when and why?


Laura Wenzel &

Vanessa Schwenker

74
75
76


Trust & Recognition


Recognition as a means to increase trust across group boundaries? 


Birte Siem

77
78
79


Trust & Recognition


Discover the Concept of Service Learning: Transforming Education & Empowering Communities


Saskia Samland

80
81
82


Trust & Recognition


"I profess" - Trust and casing in the social drama of work 


Lars Alberth

83
84
85


Trust & Recognition


Africa-Europe relations: time for trust?


Ilsemargret Luttmann

86
87
88


Power & Rights


Power and Rights of (Anti-)Fascist Networks: From Allyship and Aesthetics in the Cultural Political Space


Cornelius Gesing &
Anne Sonnenfroh

89
90