Incomprehensibility: World-Chaos and Chaos-World
The complexity of the 21st century seems to be perceived as threatening chaos. Images that have partitioned the world for so long and allowed us to dwell comfortably in manageable categories such as the West are being called into question and jeopardized. Once again, right-wing populism and fascism are rising with the claim to keep these categories in order. In “Incomprehensibility: World-Chaos and Chaos-World” I propose to work on imaginaries that deal with the complexity of the world in a different way. Based on Édouard Glissant's concept of the Chaos-World, which sees the world as being in Relation, I ask: How can we design with and for a chaos of diversity? Published in: Tom Bieling / Michelle Christensen / Florian Conradi (Ed.). 2025. NERD III - New Experimental Research in Design. Positions and Perspectives. Birkhäuser. You can buy the book → here.
Fata Morgana. An Essay Journey.
Fata Morgana. An Essay Journey explores the optical phenomenon of the Fata Morgana and its mythical namesake, Morgain Le Fay, as a figure of thought to explore transcultural and transgeographical relationships between landscape and identity. Published by VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, 13 (2025). You can read the text → here.
Zwischen den Stühlen stehen. Ein Dialog über das Dazwischen als metaphorische Figur und Herausforderung der Gestaltung.
In conversation with Frieder Bohaumilitzky. In: Jörg Sternagel / Eva Schürmann (Ed.). 2024. Denken des Medialen. Zur Bedeutung des „Dazwischen“. Bielefeld: transcript. → Open Access PDF
From Reproducing to Passing On – Publishing as Part of a Critical Spatial Practice.
In: Carlos Natálio / Daniel Ribas / João Pedro Amorim (Ed.). 2024. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, vol. 15, n. 2. Pp. 198-203. → Open Access PDF
Anordnungen.
In: Haarmann / Lagaay / Bieling / Körschkes / Ivanova/ Bohaumilitzky / Scholz (Ed.). 2023. Specology – Zu einer ästhetischen Forschung. Hamburg: adocs.
Design of Unrest: Right-wing Metapolitics – Paralogy – Knowledge Spaces – Chaos.
With Anke Haarmann / Tom Bieling / Frieder Bohaumilitzky. In: Johanna Mehl, Carolin Höfler (Ed.). 2023. Attending [TO] Futures – Matters of Politics in Design, Education, Research, Practice. Hamburg: adocs.
Flickering Landscapes. On Community, Myth and Territory.
2022. Published by Neo-Metabolism (Hg.): Utopian Thinking Vol. 2. → https://n-m.world/Flickering-Landscapes
Designing Unrest.
With Anke Haarmann, Tom Bieling, Frieder Bohaumilitzky. In: Interactions, Volume 29, Issue 2, 03-04.2022. S. 20–21. → https://doi.org/10.1145/3517211
Neighborhood Parliament – A Collective Scenario Making.
With Ina Römling. In: Foraita, Herlo, Vogelsang (Ed.). 2020. Matters of Communication. Formen und Materialitäten gestalteter Kommunikation. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
Dialogische Strukturen.
With Ina Römling. In: 2020. Neuwerk #7 – Kontakt. Halle: Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule.
Der Kampf gegen das Chaos geht nicht ohne Affinität zum Gegner von statten.
In: 2020. DESIGNABILITIES Design Research Journal (09). → https://tinyurl.com/y3wv3j6z
Auf dem Zuweg vor der Sieben.
In: 2018. Protocol Nr. 10 – Magazin für Architektur im Kontext. Berlin: Universität der Künste Berlin.
Konversationsräume.
2018. Denken über Design Nr. 11. material 383-11. Hamburg: Materialverlag.