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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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)’ – …
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.
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