Feminist Reading Collective 2026

This seminar is conceived as a feminist seminar collective organized as a book club and grounded in feminist approaches to knowledge production that understand theory as collectively generated, situated, and continuously negotiated. While the organizing team provides a shared framework, the overall concept, scheduling, guest lectures, and a possible initial selection of readings, the thematic focus, theoretical directions, and working formats remain open for collective co-creation throughout the semester. The seminar centers on an in-depth engagement with feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on feminist spatial theory, feminist spatial practices, and the application of feminist perspectives to spatial questions. Through collective reading, discussion, and reflection, participants explore how feminist approaches challenge dominant spatial epistemologies and open alternative understandings of space, power, embodiment, care, materiality, and difference, while reflecting on implications for spatial analysis, design practices, and methodological approaches. Following a feminist didactic approach, the seminar emphasizes non-hierarchical learning, shared responsibility, reflexivity, and care, understanding knowledge as partial and learning as a relational, collective process. Overall, the seminar seeks to create a space for collective learning, theoretical depth, and methodological experimentation, approaching feminist theory and feminist spatial practice as lived and practiced forms of knowledge production.

Tuesdays (bi-weekly): 14:15 – 17:45, R. CampusTower2

Teaching: Collectively organized by participating students, Prof. Bernd Kniess

  • Photo: Berit Jagels
    Photo: Berit Jagels

contributors

2025/2026

Current annual theme

Sensing Zones

Sensing Zones

Sensing Zones