CHRISTINA WERNER
has been co-directing the Institut für Raumexperimente since its inception in 2009 as part of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Co-directing involved teaching, curating, moderating, critiquing, and administrating. Her work at the Institut für Raumexperimente emphasized not only an interest in building programmatic links between art and other disciplines but a comprehensive approach to curating the institute’s wide-ranging program of artistic practice and research; workshops, exhibitions and publications; food-related formats; perception experiments; contemplative exercises; field trips; institutional collaborations and collaborative initiatives; as well as an unobtrusive guidance in choreographing and facilitating an open environment for communication and art and knowledge production. By cultivating engagement among divergent fields of theory and practice, the program created an atmosphere of experimentation that challenged the norms by which we learn how to learn and, consequently, unfolded its curriculum in retrospect.

NEW SCHOOL
This is the second event in the series New School, inviting recently founded institutions for teaching and learning architecture and other forms of spatial knowledge production to present their pedagogy. In the first installment, Anastassia Smirnova presented the methodology and backstory of Strelka Institute in Moscow in the lecture The Paradox Box.

Introduction by Björn Ehrlemark
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