X-Student Research Group: Body-Space (2): spatial gestures of home-making (Seminar)

Body-Space (2): spatial gestures of home-making

A project-course (as part of the X-Student Research Groups) at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin

Description:

Body–Space co-research group explores home-making as an embodied and spatial practice, focusing on migrant, queer, and racialized experiences. We investigate how home is built and unbuilt through memory, movements, and the textures of everyday life, and how sensorial and collaborative methods can help us capture these spatial gestures. In the last semester, Body–Space traced individual and collective trajectories across biographical, network-based, and territorial dimensions, using collage, drawing, mapping, and oral zine as collaborative research methods. Our investigations brought nuanced perceptions of home-making, weaving, for example: emotional labor in building home between places while crafting intimacy; situated negotiations of gender euphoria and dysphoria within home-making during post-surgery recovery; political alliances and social ties as anchors during dislocations along the time. This semester, we will co-create a cartography of embodied home-making by curating these nuanced meanings and adding new layers through reflection and practice. We will then create the Body–Space zine, experimenting with different stages of zine-making to reflect on multimodal ways of producing and sharing knowledge.

Project leader: Mariana Morais (Contact: mariana.morais.luiz@campus.tu-berlin.de)

Language of the Group: English

Dates: first meeting Monday, 13.10.2025, 14:00-15:30 Uhr (MAR 4.064), then weekly+block: 14:00 - 18:00 (Block Seminar October 17.10, 20.10, 24.10, 27.10, 31.10 + Launch and final gathering tbd with the group)

Room of the Group: first meeting is at MAR 4.064, other meetings at MAR 1.008 (MAR Building), Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin,

Further information:

·       Information on participation in an X-Student Research Group

·      Module description X-Student Research Groups

Body-Space (2): spatial gestures of home-making

A project-course (as part of the X-Student Research Groups) at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin

Description:

Body–Space co-research group explores home-making as an embodied and spatial practice, focusing on migrant, queer, and racialized experiences. We investigate how home is built and unbuilt through memory, movements, and the textures of everyday life, and how sensorial and collaborative methods can help us capture these spatial gestures. In the last semester, Body–Space traced individual and collective trajectories across biographical, network-based, and territorial dimensions, using collage, drawing, mapping, and oral zine as collaborative research methods. Our investigations brought nuanced perceptions of home-making, weaving, for example: emotional labor in building home between places while crafting intimacy; situated negotiations of gender euphoria and dysphoria within home-making during post-surgery recovery; political alliances and social ties as anchors during dislocations along the time. This semester, we will co-create a cartography of embodied home-making by curating these nuanced meanings and adding new layers through reflection and practice. We will then create the Body–Space zine, experimenting with different stages of zine-making to reflect on multimodal ways of producing and sharing knowledge.

Project leader: Mariana Morais (Contact: mariana.morais.luiz@campus.tu-berlin.de)

Language of the Group: English

Dates: first meeting Monday, 13.10.2025, 14:00-15:30 Uhr (MAR 4.064), then weekly+block: 14:00 - 18:00 (Block Seminar October 17.10, 20.10, 24.10, 27.10, 31.10 + Launch and final gathering tbd with the group)

Room of the Group: first meeting is at MAR 4.064, other meetings at MAR 1.008 (MAR Building), Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin,

Further information:

·       Information on participation in an X-Student Research Group

·      Module description X-Student Research Groups

Body-Space (2): spatial gestures of home-making

A project-course (as part of the X-Student Research Groups) at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin

Description:

Body–Space co-research group explores home-making as an embodied and spatial practice, focusing on migrant, queer, and racialized experiences. We investigate how home is built and unbuilt through memory, movements, and the textures of everyday life, and how sensorial and collaborative methods can help us capture these spatial gestures. In the last semester, Body–Space traced individual and collective trajectories across biographical, network-based, and territorial dimensions, using collage, drawing, mapping, and oral zine as collaborative research methods. Our investigations brought nuanced perceptions of home-making, weaving, for example: emotional labor in building home between places while crafting intimacy; situated negotiations of gender euphoria and dysphoria within home-making during post-surgery recovery; political alliances and social ties as anchors during dislocations along the time. This semester, we will co-create a cartography of embodied home-making by curating these nuanced meanings and adding new layers through reflection and practice. We will then create the Body–Space zine, experimenting with different stages of zine-making to reflect on multimodal ways of producing and sharing knowledge.

Project leader: Mariana Morais (Contact: mariana.morais.luiz@campus.tu-berlin.de)

Language of the Group: English

Dates: first meeting Monday, 13.10.2025, 14:00-15:30 Uhr (MAR 4.064), then weekly+block: 14:00 - 18:00 (Block Seminar October 17.10, 20.10, 24.10, 27.10, 31.10 + Launch and final gathering tbd with the group)

Room of the Group: first meeting is at MAR 4.064, other meetings at MAR 1.008 (MAR Building), Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin,

Further information:

·       Information on participation in an X-Student Research Group

·      Module description X-Student Research Groups