The joint post-disciplinary colloquium for artistic and scientific research at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) will continue in 2025.
The Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) and the Hybrid Plattform cordially invite you to attend.

Early career researchers and artists from both universities will present their research projects under the theme:

Research Ecologies – encounters, disruptions, common ground

In a time of multiple crises that span across different geographies, time scales and political cycles, it is increasingly necessary to surpass disciplinary boundaries. It is at these sites of cross-disciplinary encounter that we can begin to address the major challenges of our time: social polarization, the climate emergency, the biodiversity crisis and ongoing social injustice. 

Cross-disciplinary encounters that are not simply concurrent, but equally irritant, are an important part of defining a common ground in research, allowing for more holistic solutions to our current challenges. The 2025 colloquium series focuses on artistic and scientific research questions in the face of current social phenomena and discourses, and offers a stage for projects that work on transformation topics in the context of climate and biodiversity, sustainability, social cohesion, the decolonial, digitalization as well as new technologies.

The colloquium offers space for content-related experiments while seeking an open exchange between the disciplines and faculties of TU and UdK.

Join us for our first event on April 29 2025 on the topic of “The weight of water: saturation and scarcity”.
Three research projects will discuss the interplay between historical power relations, technological interventions in natural systems and changing ecological conditions. From energy infrastructure in Russia to the draining of land in Brandenburg and water districts in Lagos, the projects deal with questions of social injustice and inequality with regard to the distribution of resources and environmental changes.

Pablo Quiroga Devia & Francesca Ceola (TU Berlin, CRC 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces"): Encountering waterfront shifting spatio-materialities in Lagos – an artist and a researcher experimentation

Julia Lazarus (UdK Berlin): Conditions of drought – Investigating the many levels of water

Jeanna Kolesova (UdK Berlin): In Zombie Fire 


Date: Thursday, the 29th of April 2025
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences, Einsteinufer 43, Berlin 
Further information: Free admission and no registration required
Contact: kolloquium_ @hybrid-plattform.org