The Survival Lounge is part of the exhibition [FRAU] ARCHITEKT*IN, organised by the Berlin Chamber of Architects, the Institute of Architecture (TU Berlin) and the Architekturmuseum (TU Berlin) in cooperation with BHROX bauhaus reuse, Ernst-Reuter-Platz.
[FRAU] ARCHITEKT*IN can be seen from 3 June to 8 July 2021 at the bauhaus reuse Pavillon, Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Berlin.
The three Survival Lounge seminars, i.design – ii.build – iii.inhabit, were organised by the Chair of History of Architecture and Urbanism at the Institute of Architecture, TU Berlin, and taught by Sarah Rivière, Hermann Schlimme and Helle Schröder. The concept for a student-run Survival Lounge was proposed by Franziska Neßeler in an earlier seminar held by Sarah Rivière and Matthäa Ritter-Wurnig at the Chair of Building Technology and Architectural Design.
The Survival Lounge project aims to create a space for intersectional feminist thought, exchange, support and performance. It is part of a larger fight against inequality and discrimination in society, in academia, in the built environment and in the architectural profession. Sara Ahmed’s book Living a feminist life (2017) contains a Killjoy Survival Kit of things that “I know I need to do and to have around me to keep on going on,” and here we support each other’s survival in this sense: validating identity, empowering ongoing projects, and boosting every voice as a vital contribution to ongoing feminist discourse.
In 2020 the Survival Lounge was designed and built as a prototype: as a liminal zone of doubt, immersion and gathering, a zone of tidal nature, located on (or at both sides of) a threshold, a place where doubt could be transformed into potential through discussion and reflection. Due to the COVID-situation this lounge cannot be presented as a physical space today. Instead we offer a virtual Survival Lounge with interactive spaces of contradiction and recalibration, reflection and togetherness, power and support. Please use the links below to cross the threshold: Welcome to the virtual Survival Lounge.
Element House
Eléonore Hayar, Vani Monjaraz Tec, Selen Sönmez
Element Film
Nura Hoda Dag
Element Bar
Paul André Walter
Teachers:
Sarah Rivière
Hermann Schlimme
Helle Schröder
Student collaborators:
Ho Kim
Esin Mehmed
Marcus Matznick
Thalia Staschok
Publication survival lounge. i. design
Christine Hartl
Serdar Ayvaz
Publication survival lounge. ii. build
Tildem Kirtak [ongoing]
Guest critics:
Hille Bekic (AK Berlin)
Rita Brand
Nathalie Dziobek-Bepler (Baukind)
Martina Gross-Georgi
Jane Rendell (The Bartlett)
Eike Roswag-Klinge
Gudrun Sack (AK Berlin)
Wiltrud Simbürger
Felix Tholl
Support:
Sermin Devecioglu [IfA CIP-Pool]
Benjamin Herrmann [IfA CIP-Pool]
Theresa Jung [tailor]
Jochen Lochner [Büro Happold]
Paula Longato [Büro Happold]
Felix Tholl [craftsman]
Students
Sommersemester 20 (i. design)
Natasha Nurul Annisa
Seyedeh Kosar Asghari
Serdar Ayvaz
Ilayda Birgül
Eda Özge Düzgün
Neside Sevinc Durgut
Galina Grinberg
Sena Gür
Christine Hartl
Jakob Michael Holtz
Rowaa Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim
Gabriel Paul Jacobs
Tildem Kirtak
Antonia Maria Leicht
Ekaterina Kropacheva
Emmanouil Martakos Galiatsatos
Iryna Myronchuk
Elise-Phuong Ha Nguyen
Sofia Andrea Orellana von Frey
Mara Neo Räther
Miranda Rigby
Laura Schwarzenberger
Nikita Ashleigh Schweizer
Merlina Stephens Dupeyron
Neele Sofie Thrän
Rima Ubeid
Mohammad Wa’el Moh’d Hilmi Allan
Leoni Marieke Weyrauch
Veronika Zaripova
Students
Wintersemester 20 | 21 (ii. build)
Natasha Nurul Annisa
Alina Behrend
Rieke Davideit
Noha Elhady
Alexander Hartway
Jakob Michael Holtz
Tildem Kirtak
Miranda Rigby
Elio Wohlgenannt
Students
Sommersemester 21 (iii. inhabit)
Eléonore Hayar
Nura Hoda Dag
Vani Monjaraz Tec
Katjuschka Owusu
Selen Sönmez
Paul André Walter
The Survival Lounge is co-financed by the Architektenkammer Berlin
Bild: (c) Seyedehkosar Asghari
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