Student publication enabled by FG BSG :: Designing the Survival Lounge 

Based on Sara Ahmed’s book :: ‘Living a Feminist Life’ 

The Survival Lounge project is a series of seminars focusing on the design, construction, and inhabitation of an intersectional feminist Survival Lounge inspired by Sara Ahmed’s book ‘Living a Feminist Life’. It is a Survival Lounge dedicated to the voices of the unheard.  

In this book that you are holding in your hands you will read about the history behind its creation and learn about the whole design process. It tells the story of a group of people who worked collectively to design a Survival Lounge for their fellow students during a digital summer semester in 2020. It also gives an insight into the practical experience of an intersectional feminist design process.  

Despite being physically separated, each behind a screen and in the middle of a pandemic, we united all our voices in this project, together more than ever. 

Digital Summer Semester 2020 

ISBN 978-3-9822233-3-9 

Click here to download the book (pdf)

Authors of the publication 

Mohammad Allan, Natasha Nurul Annisa, Seyedehkosar Asghari, Serdar Ayvaz, Ilayda Birgül, Merlina Stephans Dupeyron, Neside Sevinc Durgut, Eda Özge Düzgün, Felita Felita, Galina Grinberg, Emmanouil Martakos Galiatsatos, Sena Gür, Christine Hartl, Jakob Michael Holtz, Rowaa Ibrahim, Gabriel Paul Jacobs, Ekaterina Kropacheva, Tildem Kirtak, Antonia Maria Leicht, Iryna Myronchuk, Elise-Phuong Ha Nguyen, Sofia Andrea Orellana, Neo Mara Räther, Miranda Rigby, Santiago Sanchez, Nikita Ashleigh Schweizer, Laura Schwarzenberger, Neele Sofie Thrän, Rima Ubeid, Leoni Weyrauch, Greta Wörmann, Veronika Zaripova