MAKING FUTURES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Independent Curator and Writer
Berit Fischer is an independent curator and writer who has worked internationally since 1999. She currently is a PhD researcher at the Winchester School of Art/Southampton University, UK and investigates how the curatorial can activate a micropolitical and holistic making of social empathy as an approach on post-representational curation. Beyond the PhD, her curatorial research interests focus on socially produced spaces, the specification of art as a producer of new knowledge and a means to permeate the status quo, the creation of fields of action, and the development of spaces for critical engagement.
In addition Berit Fischer is a Yoga practitioner since 1999 and received her 200 hours Ashtanga Yoga teaching certification in 2013 through the Ashtanga Studio Berlin (Andrea Lutz) and Manju Pattabhi Jois (oldest son of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, recognized worldwide as the foremost authority on Ashtanga Yoga). She has participated in numerous workshops with Nancy Gilgoff, Manju Pattabhi Jois, Matthew and Carla Vollmer and Regina Ehlers. In her own practice and teaching she seeks awareness and connectivity within and around us.
Christopher Dell lives and works as a theorist and composer in Berlin. According to Reclam Jazz Lexicon, he is one of the leading vibraphonists in Europe for which he has been awarded with several prizes. Dell is the director of ifit, Institute for Improvisation Technology in Berlin. He teaches architectural theory at the Universität der Künste Berlin and at the Architectural Association, London. He has been a guest Professor for Urban Theory at the HCU Hamburg and TU Munich. Together with others, he is the founder and initiator of the research project Universität der Nachbarschaften (The Neighborhoods' University) at the HafenCity University, Hamburg. Christopher Dell's scientific focus is on the practices and organizations of today's cities. In inter-disciplinary work constellations, he seeks relational forms of action as a method to conceptualize design. His book Replaycity (Berlin 2011), plays with musical perspectives, where urban spaces are co-created through everyday actions. He translates this into a Technology of Improvisation as an urban practice for the 21st century.
Dr. Izaskun Chinchilla is Phd Architect from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) where she got her Master level and where her Doctorte Thesis Project "The Structure of the Ecological Revolution in Architecture" was awarded with a Magna Cum Laude in February 2016. Dr. Chinchilla is Honor International Fellow from Royal Institute of British Architects from February 2017. She is driving her own office since 2001. She has a long and deep experience in research, education and public engagement. She is Senior Teaching Fellow, Senior Research Associate and Public Engagement Fellow at Barlett School of Architecture (UCL London). She has also taught in École Special (Paris), HEAD University (Geneva), University of Alicante (Escuela de Arquitectura Universidad de Alicante), Madrid University (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), CEU San Pablo University (Madrid) and IE (Segovia). Her designer activity is accompanied by a research dedication that has taken her as visiting scholar to Columbia University in New York, École de Mines de Paris and Princeton University in New Jersey and also to the Institut d ́Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (Barcelona), in a Postgraduate Master. In 2012 she was awarded with a Public Engagement fellowship from University College of London.
As speaker she has participated in forum, lectures and debates in more than 80 international destinies and more than 100 different magazines and publications has talked about the proposals from her office. Her work has taken part of the exhibitions in 8a Biennale di Venezia, 10a Biennale di Venezia, V Bienal de Arquitectura y Diseño de Sao Paulo, in traveling exhibitions as Panorama Emergente Iberoamericano or Europan 7 and in different museums and Galeries including Gallery "mad is mad" (Madrid), Arquerias de Nuevos Ministerios del Ministerio de la Vivienda (Madrid) , la Casa Encendida (Madrid), Museo de Teruel (Teruel) and several Profesional Associations for Architects in Spain and several Universities in the same Country.
Job Titles:
- Social Worker at Amaro Foro E.V
Georgi Ivanov is a social worker at Amaro Foro e.V. Berlin and the contact and consultation point "Nevo Drom" ("New Way"). The project targets the demand of (new)comers from EU countries, mainly Bulgaria and Romania, and acts as a bridge between existing structures and the self-empowerment potential of the group.
Job Titles:
- Implementation Researcher
- Member of the Architecture Collective Zuloark
Juan Chacón is a member of the architecture collective Zuloark. Zuloark is a distributed architecture and urbanism open office, founded in 2001. Developing flowing and collaborative professional working models and building co-responsibility environments through shared authorship projects ever since. Zuloark is involved in different contexts such as "El Campo de Cebada" or "Inteligencias Colectivas". Zuloark's work has received a number of international awards and has been shown in several renowned cultural institutions such as New York MoMA, Akademie der Kunste Berlin, Lisbon Architecture Triennale or Matadero Madrid. The office has recently won the "European Capital of Culture San Sebastian 2016" Information Pavilion Competition, which construction has been finished in 2016. Zuloark is materialized in every achieved project and it is redefined while it grows. It's a living structure, thought and constructed as a "critical object". Zuloark never equals Zuloark.
Lena is a designer and photographer specialising in editorial design. Born in the Black Forest, Germany, she has lived and worked in Berlin since 2010. She studied Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and has since worked with innovative design studios such as Projektbüro .Henkelhiedl, Nordsonne Identity and Bildmitte. She was responsible for uncube's editorial design between 2013 and 2016. Her photographic and film work focuses on documentary projects such as Willkommen in Wies or the documentary film stimmig - 10 Vokalexkursionen as well as portraits. She is currently a postgraduate fellow at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin.
Lore Ameel studied architecture and urbanism in Belgium and in France. She has worked as an architect for 10 years researching spatial quality, ecological materials, and narratives in projects. In Berlin since 2015, she has been focusing more on arts and the issue of the human scale in architecture.
Markus Bader studies architecture in Berlin and London. He graduates at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL with an architecture degree. He is a cofounder of the raumlaborberlin group, that he runs together with Andrea Hofmann, Axel Timm, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Fransesco Apuzzo, Frauke Gerstenberg, Christof Mayer, Jan Liesegang und Florian Stirnemann. He teaches as guest professor at the Peter Behren School of Architecture, the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the University Kassel. Since 2016, he leads the chair of design and building planing at the institute for Architecture and Urban Planing at the UdK Berlin. He is a member of the Berlin Art Counsel and is involved in the initiative Haus der Statistik, Berlin.
Mauricio Corbalan studied architecture and urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA). He was a member of the m777 collective (1999-2004) and since 2004, he is co-director with Pio Torroja of m7red, an independent research and activism group focused on the analysis and description of complex scenarios based in Buenos Aires. Previously m7red was building open data platforms at the Matanzas-Riachuelo River basin (2009-2014) and currently they are working on the spatial consequences of Sandra's declaration as a non-human person. M7red has collaborated with Jeanne van Heeswijk, Forensic Architecture, raumlabor and Teddy Cruz.
Merve Bedir graduated from Delft University of Technology (PhD), and Middle East Technical University (BArch). She is a member of Matbakh-Mutfak, a transnational women collective in Gaziantep, and a founding member of MAD (Center for Spatial Justice) in Istanbul. Merve is part of Future+ / Aformal Academy, an independent school for urbanism and art in Shenzhen.
Moritz Ahlert has been a researcher in the Habitat Unit since October 2017. Moritz Ahlert studied architecture in Hannover and the Universität der Künste (University of Arts) in Berlin from 2004 to 2009. From 2013 to 2014 he was a research associate at the DFG (German Research Foundation) working on the research project »Urbane Interventionen« at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (University of Arts) Hamburg. His areas of focus are: architecture, public space and mapping.