Jeannine Wintzer

Mirko
Winkel

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

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

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

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

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

Adrien
Mestrot

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

Stefan
Brönnimann

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

Sinje
Grenzdörffer

Sinje Grenzdörffer (she/her) is a Postdoc researcher in Economic Geography and Transformation Studies at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern. Her research explores the transformative potentials of economic practices and structures in the light of liveable presents and futures. Her focus is on transdisciplinary and transformative methods and formats of knowledge creation and scientific communication.

Prisca
Pfammatter

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.

Sarah
Hartmann

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

Luca
Tschiderer

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

Johanna
Paschen

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

Elisabeth
Militz

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

Nora
Komposch

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

9th Science Filmmaking Marathon

7th GLOBAL SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL

Call Special Issue: Climate, arts, and activism

Queering Gender, Work, and the Family Farm

Reflections on the EcoArtLab Residency

6th Global Science Film Festival 2024

8th Science Filmmaking Marathon

Final Presentation: «Dialogue as a means to understanding and empathy»

Book Launch - Vom Baden Lernen

7th Science Filmmaking Marathon

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

Report: Unplaces in the Periphery

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

Call for Research-Art Collaboration: ON UN/HEALTHY GROUNDS

4th Global Science Film Festival 2021 Bern-Zurich

“Critical Sustainability Research” with the Social Learning Video Method

Conversing Alps in Times of Climate Crisis

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

Climatology & Climatography of Care

Call for Research-Art Collaboration - GLOBAL IN/JUSTICE

System Relevant!

System Relevant! is now online. Developed from interviews with 37 essential workers in Zurich and Lausanne, this interactive digital tool gives voice to people whose labour kept cities running during the COVID-19 pandemic while often remaining overlooked: workers in retail, childcare, cleaning, and public transport. Through the fictional but research-based characters Sarah, Peter, Ivana, and Silvina, users can explore everyday experiences of work, care, mobility, housing, and precarity in urban space.

Created as part of the NFP80 project Urban Essential Workers at ETH Zurich under the overall direction of David Kaufmann, System Relevant! was developed in close collaboration with the mLAB at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern. Based on research and texts by Carole Ammann, the tool was shaped through the joint work of Mirko Winkel, who led the idea and implementation from the mLAB side, and Carolin Schurr, who contributed conceptual guidance. In collaboration with designers Christophe Merkle and Leon Thau, the team translated the research material into an interactive, map-based narrative format that connects interviews, urban spaces, and everyday routines. The result is a public-facing tool that makes visible the lived realities of essential workers beyond the healthcare sector.

Explore the website here:
https://system-relevant.ch