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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Residency
2023
un/healthy grounds
health care
Exhibition
3D LIDAR scanning
Dominic Schwab
forced migration
Wanda Spahl
Workshop

Spatial Narratives – Installation

Wanda Spahl and Dominic Schwab

In this video, Wanda Spahl and Dominic Schwab give insight into the Spatial Narratives installation they held in the scope of the mLAB Residency Geography of Ghosts, from 1.5.-3.5.2023 at the Institute of Geography in Bern.

 

INSTALLATION

1.5.–3.5.2023 at the Institute of Geography in Bern

The installation Spatial Narratives displayed a hybrid media geography that unfolds the work in progress of the interdisciplinary collaboration GEOGRAPHY OF GHOSTS. Mapping multiple media/meanings of healthcare for refugees (mLAB Residency). Through integrating artistic research methods into classical social science methods Spatial Narratives formed a fragmented landscape of experiences, legal frameworks, spaces and affection.

 

 

 

The installation attended to the in/visibility of refugees in the public (healthcare system) and to their place in liminal space and reflected upon this through various modalities and media.

 

WORKSHOP

Date: 3.5.2023

 

The workshop (by Wanda Spahl & Dominic Schwab, with support by Ewa Wasilewska) conveyed and discussed our working methods. “GEOGRAPHY OF GHOSTS. Mapping multiple media/meanings of healthcare for refugees” is an interdisciplinary collaboration that combines classical social science methods with artistic research methods. It discusses insights from Wanda Spahl’s ethnographic research about forced migration and health in Vienna, Austria, in a hybrid media geography.

For the site-specific documentation of healthcare institutions, asylum accommodations and public infrastructures, we drew upon “Spatial Sampling”, an artistic research method that Dominic Schwab is developing in his ongoing PhD: We captured entire rooms with high resolution terrestrial laser scanning (LIDAR) and took photos of smaller objects and specific points of interest with the method of photogrammetry. By combining our collected spatial samples with spoken stories from interviews with refugees, healthcare workers and social workers, we created “Spatial Narratives” in a real time game engine.

The workshop introduced our approach in-depth and invites participants to experiment with spatial data collection methods in smaller groups (LIDAR, photogrammetry and participatory online libraries). It also reflected upon what kinds of new knowledge “Spatial Narratives” can create and upon their artistic value and meaning.