Seminar WiSe 2025/26
Dr. Juliana Canedo

COLLOC
Collaborative production of transformation knowledge in self-organized occupations

The “COLLOC 2025” Workshop is part of the collaborative “COLLOC Workshop Series”, which aims for the production of transformation knowledge. This kind of knowledge is made possible through the participation of many stakeholders, such as local actors and students. This collaboration structurally anchors an expansion of transdisciplinary cooperation and research in connection with teaching. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and share their expertise on a concrete social problem in a local context as they practice, test and reflect on mutual learning, transdisciplinary work with various actors from science and society. It takes place in three phases that follow a transdisciplinary process design.

Methodologically, appropriate tools are planned that will enable permanent participation in the entire workshop process as well as further training for transdisciplinary research and networking.

The workshop will mainly focus on the self-organised occupations in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By working closely together with community leaders, activists, residents, practitioners, academics, and students, the workshop will address the need for integrating knowledge coming from various actors and disciplines in order to tackle complex urban development challenges in a more suitable and innovative way. Together, we will design context-appropriate interventions and reflect on their impact in the future development of the self-organised occupations.

The “COLLOC 2025” Workshop is organized by TU Berlin, Office for Science and Society in cooperation with Habitat Unit, the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg/ Department of Urban Planning, and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism.

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