Between 11 and 14 March 2025, sound installation “Affective Infrastructures” created within VISION Project by Olga Łojewska and Piotr Goldstein was exhibited at the “Diffracting …
on 4 March 2025, Magdalena Nowicka and Piotr Goldstein will deliver a lecture entitled “On Forrest Curtains and Metal Walls: What to do when what …
We are excited and proud that our fitst ethnographic short “This Week Doesn’t Really Exist” was selected for screening at this years Ethnografilm Festival of …
By Khrystyna Kai and Marianne Schinnerl-Reiss
by Olga Łojewska While interviews with the workers allow us to better understand the experience of commuting, focusing solely on the narratives creates a blind …
We are proud to celebrate the accomplishments of Bettina Steinlechner and Julia Prohaska, two sociology students from Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, on the completion of …
This field recording was made during a walk along the Oder River, which forms the boundary between Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice. Despite the river’s visual …
Although the Oder and the bridge constitute the border between the twin cities, the spaces around them function as urban centers. In Słubice, most social …
As “infrastructures are anthropocentric endeavours that are often built over existing ecologies and communities” (Barry, 2019, p. 371), the sonic qualities of place, traced through …
One of my objectives during the field trip to Grünheide was to capture the soundscape of the forest surrounding the Tesla Gigafactory. After taking the …
Founded in 1950, Eisenhüttenstadt is a former model socialist city located along the German-Polish border. Since the collapse of socialism, this city—once a representation of …
Between 4 and 6 of September 2024 the VISION Team took part in the Volkswagen Stiftung symposium ‘Potentials and Challenges for Europe’ in Hamburg. Magdalena …
Porto, 27-30 August 2024 VISION Team members will be representing the project at the European Sociological Association (ESA) conference in Porto, between 27 and 30 …
by Magdalena Nowicka
Magdalena Nowicka and Piotr Goldstein represented the VISION Team at the European Association of Social Anthropologists biannual conference ‘Doing and Undoing with Anthropology‘ that took …
Aesthetically You: Berlin styling choices and personal identity of immigrants Urban Space in Berlin: Sensory Exploration of Identity and Belonging in Different Neighborhoods Beyond safe …
Between 2 and 5 July 2024 the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference “Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn” took place at the ISCTE – …
by Maggi Leung, Professor in international Development Studies, University of Amsterdam On 20 June 2023, a group of 14 students and two instructors from the …
The following class was offered in English during the summer term 2024. Qualitative interviews are used in research when more personal interaction promises to elicit more in-depth …
This course was offered in German in the summer term 2023. It provides a practical insight into the technique of conducting interviews. The course begins …
This course, offered in English during the Winter term 2023/2024, aimed to familiarize students with different non-narrative research methods that can be used to elicit …
by Ann Katzinski Abstract This study investigates the perceived role of the Tesla factory in Grünheide on the mobility dynamics at the Erkner junction since its …
Update: On the 24th of May, the Vision team of Salzburg welcomed visitors at Lange Nacht der Forschung. Throughout the evening, our station engaged a …
Utrecht, May 13, 2024 The VISION Project coorganised an event ‘Living Labour’ that took place at the Louis Hartlooper Complex in Utrecht on 13 May …
Recently, Iepke Rijcken interviewed Agnieszka Martini, the IHK’s International Affairs Representative. In order to find out more about the methodologies used and Iepke’s motivation for …
Berlin’s VISION team is co-organising and participating in international two-day workshop on ‘Researching Living with/in Difference Creatively’ that will take place in Berlin and online …
VISION Note #2/2023 by Paul Sperneac-Wolfer Image 1: Southern Brandenburg, July 2023. View from an agricultural labour camp to theneighbouring village © Sperneac-Wolfer IntroductionIn the …
by Magdalena Nowicka Reflections on teaching the seminar “Interview in qualitative research”, Summer Term 2022, Humboldt University Berlin Enabling students to engage in research has …
by Elisabeth Hanak Imagine you live in a calm region, dominated by fields, forests and even lakes and one day a large company opens a …
by Marek Wessels IntroductionComing from Berlin, I am generally interested in the city’s relationship with its surroundings.Großbeeren is a good example, having a strong link …
by Shenja Li Within natural economic development and progress there is a shifting impact on the surrounding community’s quality of life fabricating an intricate and …
by Philipp Kleimon Abstract: The construction of Tesla´s Gigafactory in Grünheide brought a lot of changes for people in the region. In the context of …
by Stefanie Bachtin AbstractWithin our research project, we wanted to investigate the influence of the construction of the Tesla Gigafactory on the perceived quality of …
During the conference „Räume des Zusammenlebens in der deutschsprachigen und europäischen Literatur“ at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. When? 29.09.2023Programme of the …
by Daniela Trifu The following is the fictional story of an unnamed Romanian migrant worker on his way to Germany. Like many others, he relies …
Counter-Futures: Transnational Labour Regime and Mobile Workers’ Struggles for Better Futures, session chaired by Magdalena Nowicka and Bianca Szytniewski (The COVID19 pandemic and the war …
17 June 2023 – 17:00-17:45 & 23:00-23:45 at ZOiS Berlin Multiscreen installation by VISION’s Piotr Goldstein and Jan Lorenz from UAM Poznań ‘Active (Citizen)’ – …
We are organising a two-day workshop to discuss the opportunities and challenges of multimodal research and publishing. We invite those who already practice multimodality in their research to share experiences and learn from each other. While we, the organisers, focus mostly on the use of multimodality to research migration, transborder work, activism and challenges pertinent to Central- and South-Eastern Europe, we also invite researchers who focus on other issues and other parts of the world.
SOAS, University of London11 – 14 April 2023 At the upcoming annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA), VISION Project …
Please join us for the screening of three short films and a discussion about everyday (migrant) activism within Decolonial Dialogues@Humanities at VOC-room, University of Amsterdam, …
9 March 2023, 15:30 – 17:15 CET. VISION PhD Candidate Iepke Rijcken and Postdoc Piotr Goldstein will present at the 2023 Royal Anthropological Institute Film …
Here are two soundscapes which we have recorded at the parking in front of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide on 23 January 2023.
Nowicka, Magdalena (2019a): Fantasy of conviviality: banalities of multicultural settings and what we do (not) notice when we look at them. Symposium Conviviality, Precarity and …
Here you will find information on academic journal articles and other texts related to the project.
“Convivial feminist methodology” with Prof. Dr. Yvonne Riaño, Universite de Neuchâtel Dec. 6, 9-15:00Rudolfskai 42, Rm HS 115ABJoint event by the Doctoral School PLUS „Gendered …
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