Reflections on the EcoArtLab Residency
6 Global Science Film Festival 2024
7th Science Filmmaking Marathon
Final Presentation: «Dialogue as a means to understanding and empathy»
Book Launch - Vom Baden Lernen
Panel: The Future of Art and Science Collaborations
Gendered Spaces – Art and Science in Dialogue about the Production of Space
La Frontera: (Intimate) Borders in Latin America
Residency: Healthy Grounds – But for whom?
5th Global Science Film Festival 2023: Bern Edition
Spatial Narratives – Installation
Exhibition: Care-Arbeit erzählbar machen
Lunch Cinema: Weaving Threads Across Borders
Residency: GEOGRAPHY OF GHOSTS
Workshop: Creative Methods in Health Geographies
Workshop Call: Transitional Justice
Film & Geography: Work/Health/Care
Short Film Program: Reproductive Justice
Exhibition: Making Babies in Bern
5th Global Science Film Festival 2023: Zurich Edition
Exhibition: Making Babies in Berlin
Elusive Exposures Event Series
Research Studio: Mapping the Global Intimate
Video Installations around the Baths
mLAB Symposium - Other Cartographies
Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges
EcoArtLab: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Theatre of Transformation Workshop: Transforming Margins
Master's Thesis: Co-production of Knowledge through Filmmaking
Health Care Unbound
Animating the Commons
Reproductive Geopolitics
Call for Research-Art Collaboration: ON UN/HEALTHY GROUNDS
4th Global Science Film Festival 2021 Bern-Zurich
Mapping Possible Worlds
“Critical Sustainability Research” with the Social Learning Video Method
Conversing Alps in Times of Climate Crisis
Toxic Textures
Digital Geographies of the Global Intimate
mLAB Symposium - The Inspired Discipline
Call for Research-Art Collaboration: UN/CERTAIN CALIBRATIONS
Explorations into the World of Radical Cartographies
Producing and Reflecting Maps
Climatology & Climatography of Care
Call for Research-Art Collaboration - GLOBAL IN/JUSTICE
Homelessness in Bern
More-Than-Human Geographies
Residency: GEOGRAPHY OF GHOSTS
Wanda Spahl and Dominic Schwab
Mapping multiple media/meanings of healthcare for refugees
GEOGRAPHY OF GHOSTS. Mapping multiple media/meanings of healthcare for refugees is a collaboration between the social scientist Wanda Spahl and the architect Dominic Schwab. The project discusses social science research about forced migration and health in a hybrid media geography. A narrative landscape of (psycho-)geographies and personal maps unfolds refugees’ and healthcare practitioners’ experiences. Spatial data captured through 3D LIDAR scanning technologies merge with personal stories, political statements and conceptual thoughts. The project attends to the in/visibility of refugees in the public (healthcare system), to their place in liminal space, and ultimately to the digital experience of these through the lucid, spectral and inconsistent documentation of spaces and materialities by artistic usages of digital mapping technologies. Furthermore it discusses the epistemological potential of 3D LIDAR scanning; also through further developing the method of Spatial Sampling that integrates online accessible digital assets with site-specific data, and thus creates a more general understanding of the forced migration and health that abstracts from the concrete contexts of subjective experiences.
“As residents at the mLAB, we are interested in discussing scientific questions through a transdisciplinary approach and through finding novel modes of combining different methods. We experiment with different research strategies and a variety of media to provoke friction and communicate scientific findings in an unconventional manner. By combining spatial data with spoken narratives from Wanda’s interviews with refugees and healthcare workers we aim to create Spatial Narratives. Previously to our residency in Bern, we spatially documented healthcare institutions and asylum accommodations in Vienna, which we will interweave now with voices in German, Somali, Dari and Arabic. A real time game engine serves us as a digital tool for experimentation and as a stage to tell the Spatial Narratives in a multiple media installation to a wider audience.”
Wanda Spahl is a social scientist. Her research interests include social studies of health, biopolitics, digitalisation, critical migration studies and artistic research. She is enrolled at the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ongoing PhD on forced migration and health, in September 2023; results partly published in EASST Review and Bioethics). From 2020 to 2022, she was a researcher in and co-leader of the international and longitudinal qualitative interview study “Solidarity in Times of a Pandemic“. From 2018 to 2022, Wanda Spahl was a university assistant at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna.
Dominic Schwab is an architect, teacher and researcher based in Vienna, Austria. He holds a master degree in art and architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts and is a faculty member at the ./studio3, Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. Currently he is pursuing a PhD with a research focus on the spectralities of media-technologies and how they inform a spatial design practice that reflects on architecture in the age of archives. He is co-founder of the Vienna Architecture Summer Schooland SOAP,some online architecture practice, which aims to explore the architecture of the World Wide Web. His work has been widely screened and exhibited, including Ars Electronica Barcelona Garden 2021, AUT Innsbruck 2021, Greenwich Heritage Gallery London 2016, Wien Museum 2016, Rundgang Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2016/17/18 and others.
In 2022, Wanda and Dominic co-founded PARABOL – Verein für künstlerische Forschung.