Torben Körschkes
research, art and spatial design
part of HEFT
info at torbenkoerschkes dot de
CV upon request
13.09.–15.09.2023
Hydraritual – Installation und Lesung. Kachelraum, Frappant.
Eröffnung: 13.09. / 19:30 Uhr
Coming soon:
Bieling / Bohaumilitzky / Haarmann / Körschkes: Design of Unrest. In: Attending [to] Futures. Matters of Politics in Design Education, Research, Practice. Eds. Johanna Mehl, Carolin Höfler. Hamburg: adocs
Coming soon:
Haarmann / Lagaay / Bieling / Körschkes / Ivanova / Bohaumilitzky / Scholz: Specology. Zu einer ästhetischen Forschung. Hamburg: adocs
PhD on Chaos and Spatial Imaginations (wt), TU Berlin/HAW Hamburg
Teaching assignment at HAW Hamburg
Selected Projects:
Residency at INSTITUTO, Porto. Funded by the European Union / Goethe Institute and the City of Hamburg
Essay: Flickering Landscapes. On Community, Myth, and Territory, published in: Neo-Metabolism: Utopian Thinking in the Dark Times. Season 2 – A/W 2022
SpecLog, digital research blog
Performative reading: Brief aus… at DIES ist ein Stand in Authren, M1, Hamburg
Errantry, three Drawings, published in PAGE Magazine 10.2022
Presentation at the Conference Disruptive Imaginations, TU Dresden
Presentation: Letter from…, reading at Spring Seminar 2023: Montage, School of Arts Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto
Presentation: Flickering Landscapes. A Poetic Approach to the Relationship of Complexity and Community Through Objects and Stories, lecture and reading at NERD Take Five conference, UdK Berlin
2019–2023, research assistant, Speculative Space, Center for Design Research, HAW Hamburg
Design of Unrest, film originally produced for the conference Attending [to] Futures at Köln International School of Design. 2021
Interview at Çira Report on Architecture, the City and Parliaments
Designing Unrest, published in: Interactions Vol. 29/2 03.–04.22
Teaching: Navigieren in der Chaos-Welt (WS 2021/22), HAW Hamburg
Teaching: Potentials of Speculation I–III, digital lecture serious organised at HAW Hamburg
designforschung.org, redesign and editorial
Der Kampf gegen das Chaos geht nicht ohne Affinität zum Gegner von statten, in:
DESIGNABILITIES Design Research Journal (09), 2020
Teaching: Sprechen über Design (SoSe 2020) at Department Design, HAW Hamburg
Mikropol am Mühlenweg, Hamburg
Lecture: HDK Göteborg / Critical & Ed. Practices dept. arranged by Markus Miessen
copytopia, workshop at GLOBART Academy 2019, Vienna
Design Utopia, Workshop at Die Neue Sammlung, München
Teaching: Atrium Behaviorology w/ Momoyo Kaijima, HCU Hamburg
Konversationskunst with Antje Eske & Kurd Alsleben, UdK Berlin
Residency Bibliothek Andreas Züst
Auf dem Zuweg vor der Sieben, in: Protocol Magazin Nr. 10, Berlin
HEFT Archive at Art Book and Zine Fest Aarhus
DGTF Conference: Neighborhood Parliament – A Collective Scenario Making
Ein Europa der Regionen, open research space / workshop, Dortmund
Konversationsräume, in: Materialverlag, Hamburg 2018
Residency at PACT Zollverein, Essen
Lecture: dialogische Strukturen, Folkwang UdK, Essen
How to Live Together, Kunsthalle Wien (→ Studio Miessen)
ReVision, Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg (→ Studio Miessen)
Klassenraum Lemgo, redesign of a classroom with Z–Werkstatt / Die ZEIT
Der Himmel von Bern (HEFT + BURGHARD)