In Transit | Dialogue Series

In the Dialogue Series: In Transit, participants will talk about land and territory, the concepts of ownership and translocation, protection and borders. Some speakers will also share their personal experience with exile, transit, inclusion and exclusion, longing and belonging. Protagonists from literature, sociology, arts and philosophy are invited for a conversation, a reading or a performance to add a special voice to these global, challenging and pressing themes.

This series is part of ANCB's long-term programme Borders and Territories: Identity in Place, discussing the spatial consequences of geopolitical, socio-cultural, economic and ecological aspects of home, displacement, migration and identity in a transdisciplinary dialogue. It also represents a continuation of the ongoing project Transit Spaces in collaboration with the ZEIT-Stiftung.

Depending on the conditions, the Dialogues Series: In Transit will be presented as hybrid, physical or online events and the ANCB website will be constantly updated. More dialogues will be announced soon via newsletter.

The two exhibitions Purgatory by Ai Weiwei and City of Refugees by the University of Houston that this series accompanies, will be on display at Aedes Architecture Forum until 7 January 2021 during the usual opening hours.

NEXT DIALOGUE

Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 6.30 pm (online, in English)
#6 Philip Gumuchdjian, Director Gumuchdjian Architects, London in conversation with Benjamin Tallis, Policy Officer for Civilian Crisis Management, The European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management (CoE), Berlin
In three dialogues within the In Transit series, Benjamin Tallis and his guests look at the connection between people and 'their' places and how it affects our sense of belonging and community in terms of inclusion and exclusion. In the second of these dialogues, architect Philip Gumuchdjian and Benjamin Tallis will talk about home as a place where people are appreciated, the resurgence of the local in pandemic times and architecture’s responsibility to facilitate community and a more bespoke utilisation of public space by creating platforms of possibilities that engage the passer-by.

UPCOMING DIALOGUES

Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 6.30 pm (online, in English)
#7 Karoline Postel-Vinay, Director of Research, Sciences Po, Paris in conversation with Benjamin Tallis, Policy Officer for Civilian Crisis Management, The European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management (CoE), Berlin

February 2021 (tbc)
Etel Adnan, Writer, Poet and Visual Artist, Paris in conversation with Klaudia Ruschkowski, Dramaturg and Writer, Berlin/Volterra
The Lebanese-American poet, painter and philosopher, born in Beirut in 1925, will talk with Klaudia Ruschkowski, her long-time German translator, about being a pioneer in crossing borders thanks to her spirit's nomadic essence, and how she established 'home' in her writings and paintings.

February 2021 (tbc)
Christian Katzer, General Director of Médecins sans Frontières Germany, Berlin

February 2021 (tbc)
Dialogue between Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture, London and Wolfgang Kaleck, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin
Eyal Weizman and Wolfgang Kaleck will talk about human rights violations at the EU's external borders against migrants seeking protection and the criminalisation of initiatives supporting these migrants