“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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.