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- March 16, 2026
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
contributors

Berit Jagels
Tutor

Hanna Shi
Student Assistant, Tutor
Lea Struckmeyer

Tabea Schamp
Student Assistant, Tutor
2025/2026
Current annual theme
Sensing Zones

Sensing Zones
Cities and urban societies are facing a multitude of challenges. Climate change, social problems, and the digital transformation are currently among the most pressing issues cities must deal with. The warming of the atmosphere is increasingly felt in urban areas, while zones of overheating emerge. Heatwaves affect cities in particular, endangering the health of vulnerable populations, especially …