Seminar WiSe 2025/26
Marina Resende Santos, İnci Nazlıcan Sağırbaş

The Earth We Tread II
Reimagining Land Relations Through Insurgent Practices

What does “land” mean? How do you define “terra”? And “Boden”? These varied and disputed meanings reflect our complex relations with the grounds we inhabit. Today, the interlocked crises of the environment and displacement call for a restructuring of those relations. With this aim, we’ll draw from insurgent practices such as global land use movements, especially from peasant, local, migrant, and indigenous perspectives.

We will foster our imagination through artistic and design research, combined with embodied exercises, mapping workshops, and site walks. Through readings and site visits, we will discuss the perceptions of land, the agency of non-humans, and spatial practices that challenge dominant narratives of development, extractivism, and exceptionalism in our own contested and layered ground in and around Berlin.

Throughout the semester, we will continue to collectively produce a Land Glossary, which we started in the summer semester. The course will culminate in a printed edition of the glossary and a public gathering, where we will present our interventions and mappings created.

This is an X-Tutorial funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the State of Berlin as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments by the Berlin University Alliance. 

Teaching Days
October 25 - 26, 10 am - 4 pm
December 06 - 07, 10 am - 4 pm
January 24 - 25,  10 am - 4 pm

Make-Up Project Space 
Papierstraße 11
13409 Berlin

Application
mail until October 22 to incisagirbas@gmail.com & marina.resende.santos@tu-berlin.de

Photo: © May Makki, 2023

Download poster here.