Transscalar Critical
Cartography

      Design-Driven PhD at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture
   Promotor: Prof.Dr.Corneel Cannaerts,
    Co-Promotor: Prof.Dr. Lidia Gasperoni

Atlases traditionally collect two-dimensional projections of territory on flat media, organized according to scale, location or governance. Yet as critical cartography reveals, maps are not neutral and objective representations of space, but perpetuate existing power structures. While digital technologies have made maps interactive, zoomable, and three-dimensional, they are not less political. Today’s mapping platforms, run by governments and big tech companies, are enabled through a vast technological apparatus of remote sensing, cloud computing, and data centres that deeply impact the territories they represent.

Sky Scalarities - sketched series of scalar perspectives

In my PhD at  Arch KU Leuven I develop a transscalar map and Rhino 3D-model, the Hyperfield, that represents sky imaginaries and atmospheric territory. A hybrid of Hyperobject and social field, the Hyperfield models the atmosphere across multiple scales at once: from the sky surrounding the domestic home, to the satellites in the exosphere. The transscalar map holds and situates encoded relationalities of contemporary sky media and selected historical precedents through analytical architectural drawing. The cartography links to an online interface, the Sky Lexicon, revealing the myth and meaning of a flattened and colonized atmosphere. Hand-drawn situated practices extend this transscalar atlas through the concepts of ecological nonscalability and perspective as a symbolic form, where the scale of the imaginary and territory meet.

    Ein literarisches Flugblatt

Magazine, print, March 2021 - ongoing
Texts in cooperation with Arne Schmelzer and Sandra Meireis
Das Föhtong is a literary magazine reflecting on happenings and places of the city, inspired by the COVID Pandemic. 
The project launched in March 2021 and has published three editions so far. The next exemplar is coming this year.

The magazine is conceived as a street pamphlet, returning to writing as an expressive means of experiencing the urban context. 

Das Föhtong (written how Berliners would pronounce ‘Le Feuilleton’) is an edition of urban pamphlets, made by hand and sent by mail to subscribers.

info: http://dasfoehtong.de/

The poster for the opening event of the third edition

Screenshot of the website launching the second edition

    Wohnen wir jetzt hier?

Urban installation, documented in 56 analogue photographs b/w
The curtain functioning as a portable two-dimensional void throughout the public spaces of Berlin. The question “Wohnen wir jetzt hier?” is German for: 
“Do we live here now?” and was posed by commuters, when confronted with the improvised installation hung in the one of the U-Bahn carriages.

    architectural magazine

Magazine design and concept with Cora Waschke / internal office magazine for O&O Baukunst
The magazine offers insight to a variation of current topics in architecture, assembled monthly collaging together from all relevant and not-so-relevant newspapers for the entertainment the information of the employees.
Texts are mostly written by Cora Waschke, the changing interview format was curated by me as well as the general design. 

 Year: 2018 - Working as PR Assistant for O&O Baukunst