Field visit to Romania
At the beginning of June the VISION team went for a field visit to Romania. We explored the city of Iași and rural areas around …
MA thesis defended! “Framing Strategies of Anti-Tesla Movements in Grünheide, Germany: A Comparative Case Study”
On 30 April 2025 VISION Research Assistant Khrystyna Kai has defended her MA thesis entitled: “Framing Strategies of Anti-Tesla Movements in Grünheide, Germany: A Comparative …
This Week Doesn’t Really Exist at SIEF congress in Aberdeen & online
On 3 June 2025, our short ethnographic docummentary “This Week Doesn’t Really Exist” by Piotr Goldstein, Olga Łojewska and Maksymilian Awuah, will be screened at …
“This Week Doesn’t Really Exist” at Ethnografilm Festival in Paris
This Week Doesn’t Really Exist – VISION Project’s first short ethnographic docummentary – forms part of the official selection at this year’s Ethnografilm Festival in …
VISION presentations at Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Birmingham
At the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK conference ‘Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move’ the VISION team will be represented by two presentations: …
VISION Sound installation at STS Hub 2025 multimodal exhibition in Berlin
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 …
Lecture on Using Visual and Sensory Ethnography in Migration Studies
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 …
“This Week Doesn’t Really Exist” at this year’s Ethnografilm Paris
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 …
Motivations in Motion: The Multi-Dimensional Protest Against Tesla’s Gigafactory in Grünheide
By Khrystyna Kai and Marianne Schinnerl-Reiss
Sonic Methodologies for Infrastructural Entanglements
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 …
Congratulations from VISION!
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 …
Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice: Re-imagining “throwntogetherness”
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 …
Transitory centers: The promenade in Słubice
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 …
The sounds of infrastructural ecologies: The bridge in Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice
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 …
Wastelands between Tesla and A10
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 …
Walking the post-industrial spaces of Eisenhüttenstadt
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 …
VISION Team at the Volkswagen Stiftung symposium ‘Potentials and Challenges for Europe’
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 …
VISION Team at the European Sociological Association conference
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 …
Commuting Mobilities: Blind spots and potentials of a trans/national perspective
by Magdalena Nowicka
VISION at the Biannual EASA Conference in Barcelona
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 …
Student exhibition ‘Beyond words’
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 …
VISION Team at the IMISCOE conference in Lisbon
Between 2 and 5 July 2024 the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference “Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn” took place at the ISCTE – …
Guided visit to Grünheide and the Tesla factory area
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 …
Elicitation techniques in qualitative interview
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 …
Interview in qualitative research
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 …
Beyond words: using visual, sensory, creative and multimodal methods in qualitative research
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 …
Mobility Changes at the Erkner Junction? Citizens’ Perspectives on Tesla and Traffic
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 …
VISION at Lange Nacht der Forschung/ Long Night of Research
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 …
Living Labour: Film viewing and panel discussion
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 …
Interview with Forum – Das Brandenburger WirtschaftsmagazinInterview with Forum
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 …
Researching Living with/in Difference Creatively
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 …
Adjusting the Lens: Conviviality-as-necessity in the German periphery
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 …
The Miner at Work: On difficulties foregrounding the process instead of the results
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 …
When worlds collide: The impact of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Grünheide
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 …
Reality of Life and Work in Logistics in Großbeeren
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 …
Influence of the Tesla Giga-Factory on the perceived quality of life for youth in Grünheide
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 …
Tesla´s impact on young people´s opinions on live quality in Grünheide
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 …
Influence of the Tesla Giga-Factory on the perceived quality of life of young people in Grünheide
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 …
Keynote by Magdalena Nowicka „Konvivialität als Leben-mit Anderen und Leben-für Andere“
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 …
Meandering flows: The mobility infrastructure of Romanian workers in Brandenburg
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 …
VISION presence at IMISCOE Annual Conference 2023 in Warsaw
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 …
‘Active (Citizen)’ – Can Anyone Be an Activist? at LNDW Berlin
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)’ – …
Cfp: Multimodal Research and Publishing Workshop
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.
Two VISION presentations at ASA 2023 conference
SOAS, University of London11 – 14 April 2023 At the upcoming annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA), VISION Project …
“Three Films About Everyday (Migrant) Activism”
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, …
VISION Presence at RAI Film Festival Confrence 2023
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 …
Parking soundscapes – change of shift
Here are two soundscapes which we have recorded at the parking in front of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide on 23 January 2023.
Presentations & lectures 2019-2022
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 …
Articles
Here you will find information on academic journal articles and other texts related to the project.
Convivial feminist methodology
“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 …
Our twitter address
We are pleased to say that we now have a twitter account! Please follow our news on: https://twitter.com/convivialEurope
