Mirko
Winkel

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Mirko Winkel is the coordinator of the mLAB. The artist and curator teaches at the University of Bern and other places with the aim of synthesizing art with scientific research and socio-political concerns.

Susan
Thieme

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Susan Thieme is professor of Critical Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern. She brought the Global Science Film Festival to Bern and co-developed the Social Learning Video Method. She is co-founder of the mLAB.  MORE

Carolin
Schurr

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Carolin Schurr is professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. As a feminist geographer, she has developed and experimented with affectual and visual methods to grasp the emotional effects of globalization processes on our intimate lives. She is co-founder of the mLAB.  MORE

Alexander
Vorbrugg

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Alexander Vorbrugg is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. His research interests include visual forms of research and science communication. He is part of the coordination group of the mLAB. MORE

Laura
Perler

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Laura Perler is a postdoctoral researcher in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. In her research she investigates inequalities in relation to reproductive technologies and the Swiss asylum system. In her projects she uses audiovisual approaches and collaborates with artists. Together with Mirko Winkel, she is currently organizing a traveling exhibition on egg donation. She is part of the coordination group of the mLAB. MORE

Stefan
Brönnimann

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Stefan Brönnimann is a professor in Climatology at the University of Bern. His research focuses on weather and climate reconstruction, climate models, climate dynamics, effects of volcanic eruptions on climate and climate and society interactions. MORE

Elisabeth
Militz

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Elisabeth Militz is an Assistant Professor for Social and Digital Geographies at the University of Innsbruck. As a feminist political and cultural geographer, her focus lies on global/intimate relations and digital transformations. She experiments with affectual and feminist digital methodologies for human geographies. MORE

Adrien
Mestrot

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Adrien Mestrot is a professor in Soil Science at the University of Bern. Part of his research topics is analyzing the biogeochemistry of soils under global change to improve environmental health and food production.  MORE

Nora
Komposch

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Nora Komposch is a PhD student and assistant in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. Her research interests are geographies of the body, care and reproduction, migration and labor, and politics of the global intimate. MORE

Prisca Pfammatter

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Prisca Pfammatter (she/her) is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern. Her research explores the experiences of queer farmworkers in Switzerland, using dance-based methodologies to examine the intersections of gender, sex, sexuality, and social sustainability in agriculture.

Johanna
Paschen

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Johanna Paschen is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. Her research interests include social and environmental justice, transdisciplinarity and artistic research. In cooperation with the Academy of the Arts Bern, she is involved with the research project EcoArtLab. MORE

Luca
Tschiderer

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Luca Tschiderer is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. His research focuses on alternative practices of work in health- and care related contexts. As part of his PhD project he uses social learning videos as a participatory method towards workers inquiry. MORE

Sarah
Hartmann

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Sarah Hartmann is a Postdoc student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. Her research looks at issues around work, transnational mobilities and future transformations in healthcare from a critical sustainability perspective. MORE

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Carolin Schurr
Mirko Winkel
2022
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research studio

Research Studio: Mapping the Global Intimate 

In the spring semester of 2022, Carolin Schurr and Mirko Winkel organized a research studio for master’s students. The studio explored how intimate experiences and (trans)national interconnections can be made visible with the help of artistic mapping processes.

The students experimented with different forms of maps, from analog to digital, from text-based to sensorial maps. They studied the relationship between the production and reception of maps. Each individual project faces the challenge of bringing together quantitative data with intimate qualitative data. These resulting, highly diverse maps aimed to draw attention to issues of global reproductive justice or injustice.

 

Projects by Anja Ruckstuhl (left) and Carolin Glauser (right)

 

Anja Ruckstuhl produced a sculptural body map that explores beauty norms in social media and relates them to transnational cosmetic surgery tourism.

Carolin Glauser has created a wooden analog map, inspired by the looks of children’s toys, to depict the use of and access to contraceptive methods in different countries around the world.

Projects by Claudio Andenmatten (left) and Fabienne Frey (right)

Claudio Andenmatten has designed a Panini sticker magazine that addresses the injustices migrants face working in preparation for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and how this relates to funding structures.

Fabienne Frey has created an interactive digital map of the effects of pesticides on the bodies and reproductive capabilities of female agricultural workers.

Projects by Hanna Pütters (left) and Kai Brun (right)

Hanna Pütters has drawn a comic on the subject of gender and war. It deals with the story of a female Afghan “war hero” and the stereotypes that women encounter in armed conflicts.

Kai Brun was inspired by a pharmacy. He uses packs of pregnancy tests and condoms to present data on the unequal opportunities for family planning for different genders.

Project by Serafin Schneider

Serafin Schneider created a sensory map by experimenting with cords and their textures to create more awareness of the problems that blind people face in professional athletics.