Alexander van Wickeren (he/his) is a historian and cultural researcher focusing on commodities and capitalism, European global and colonial history, cultural memory, and the history of knowledge. He earned his doctorate in Cologne and Paris with an award-winning dissertation. He is currently working on a project with the working title Witnessing Colonial Violence: Apartheid, Music and South African Activism in Western Europe, 1970s-1990s. He is Scientific Director of the DFG Research Impulse “Cultural Memory in Crisis” since April 2026.
Carolin Höfler (she/her) is Professor of “Design Theory and Research” at the Köln International School of Design, TH Köln. She acquired her PhD in art history from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, as well as her diploma in architecture from the TU Berlin. She is spokesperson for the DFG-funded collaborative research project “Cultural Memory in Crisis” at TH Köln. Her research interests include design processes, material systems and medial spatiality, spaces of memory and ephemeral urbanism, combining investigative methods with drawing analysis.
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