»Memory Practices – Societal Perspectives«
Research Day of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences 2024
The research day examines memory practices that constitute cultural memory (Erinnerungskultur) by taking up societal perspectives – notably in regard to examples such as heritage, virtuality and intersectionality. It analyzes the diversity of memory practices as coexistence of different references to the past in the present and investigates the various functions and strategies that actors pursue by »doing memory«. It thus contributes to the development of a scientific field of memory studies that conducts research for (and with) society, makes memory studies effective for civil society, shapes social innovations and places major social challenges at the centre of its research.
Time: Mon, May 6, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 11, KISD / CICS, Ubierring 40, 50678 Köln
Organisation:
Darío Morazán (dario.morazan@th-koeln.de)
Dr. Alexander van Wickeren (alexander.van_wickeren@th-koeln.de)
Talks with a German title will be held in German, talks with an English title in English.
The event is open to the public and free of charge.
10:00 – 10:10 a.m.
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Regina Urbanek
Dean, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, TH Köln
Prof. Dr. Carolin Höfler
Vice Dean for Research and Transfer, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, TH Köln
10:10 – 10:45 a.m.
Memory Practices: Introduction
Darío Morazán, Dr. Alexander van Wickeren
Scientific Coordination Research, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, TH Köln
10:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Decolonising the Museum: The exhibition »RESIST! The Art of Resistance« at Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Nanette Snoep
Direction, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne
11:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Coffee break
1. Panel: Heritage – Publics & Morality
11:45 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
»Der Rand des Denkbaren ist das, was man heute Erinnerung nennt.«
PD Dr. habil. Barbara Oettl
CICS – Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, TH Köln
12:10 – 12:35 p.m.
Post Mortem: Virtual Bauhaus
Prof. Björn Bartholdy
CGL – Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln
12:35 – 13:35 p.m.
Lunch break & Exhibition
2. Panel: Virtuality – City & Policy
1:35 – 2:00 p.m.
Erinnerungskultur und identitätspolitische Raumproduktion
Prof. Andreas Wrede
KISD – Köln International School of Design, TH Köln
2:00 – 2:25 p.m.
Beyond the Glass Case: Bringing Cultural Heritage to Life with VR
Savish Uttam
CGL – Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln
2:25 – 2:55 p.m.
Coffee break & Exhibition
3. Panel: Intersectionality – Gender & Race
2:55 – 3:20 p.m.
Female Rage: The Visual Language of the Global Women’s Protest
Prof. Dr. Iris Utikal & Juliana Gutiérrez Cática
KISD – Köln International School of Design, TH Köln
3:20 – 3:45 p.m.
Decolonial Forms of Conveying Colonial Heritage: Approaches to Developing Playful and Multimodal Memory Artifacts in Museums
Dr. Philipp Bojahr
CGL – Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln
3:45 – 4:00 Uhr
Concluding Remarks
This is an on-site event and we kinldy ask everyone to attend in person. If this is not possible for you, please register for online attendance via the following link by May 5, 2024: https://t.ly/EJvrj
Image: »What will replace you?« by Gift Uzera, Muningandu Hoveka, and Nicola Brandt, Windhoek, Namibia, November 24 , 2022. The photograph is part of the work »Man of War: Leave My House«.
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»Memory Artefacts«
Research Day of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences 2023
The research day invites to reflect on »Memory Artefacts«. In recent years, questions about memory culture and collective memory have been booming in the cultural studies. The aim of the event is to mobilize the expertise available at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences and other institutes of the TH Köln on media artifacts – i.e. physical as well as digital objects, places and systems that are subject to human intervention – for the development of new perspectives on memory culture. The research day serves the faculty and the cooperating institutes of TH Köln as a central stage towards a joint interdisciplinary collaborative project.
Time: May 8, 2023
Venue: Room 11, KISD / CICS, Ubierring 40, 50678 Köln
Organisation: Dr. Alexander van Wickeren
09:00 – 09:05
Begrüßung
Prof. Dr. Regina Urbanek, Dekanin
CICS – Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, TH Köln
09:05 – 09:25
Einleitung
Dr. Alexander van Wickeren
Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften & Fakultät für Architektur, TH Köln
1. Panel: Politik
09:25 – 09:50
(Whose) memories set in stone?! – Erinnern als räumlich-urbane Praktik und Ausdruck von Widerstand und Emanzipation
Sonja Gaedicke MA
Institut für Geschlechterstudien, TH Köln
09:50 – 10:00
Urbane Spuren des Kolonialismus, Imperialismus und Nationalismus – Mediales Re-Framing von »Erinnerungsartefakten« in der Stadt Köln
Prof. Andreas Wrede
KISD – Köln International School of Design, TH Köln
10:00 – 10:20
Schlamm – ein neues Material der Erinnerungskultur? Artefakte als Teil einer Resilienzstrategie der Hochwasserkatastrophe 2021
Prof. Dr. Tilly Laaser
CICS – Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, TH Köln,
Heike Wernz-Kaiser MA
Stadtverwaltung Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
10:20 – 10:35
Diskussion
10:35 – 10:50
Kaffeepause
2. Panel: Digitalisierung
10:50 – 11:15
Querying digital memory: beyond prompt-engineering
Prof. Dr. Lasse Scherffig
KISD – Köln International School of Design, TH Köln
11:15 – 11:40
Materielle Zeugen, digitale Muster. Zur Inszenierung einer ambivalenten Wirklichkeit
Prof. Dr. Carolin Höfler
KISD – Köln International School of Design, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, TH Köln
11:40 – 11:55
Diskussion
11:55 – 13:00
Mittagspause
3. Panel: Vermittlung
13:00 – 13:10
Magisches Dreieck – Erinnerungsartefakte, Kulturguterhalt und Didaktik
Prof. Dr. Andrea Pataki-Hundt & Marlen Börngen MA
CICS – Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences
13:10 – 13:35
Playmode Cultural Heritage
Prof. Adrian Heritage
CICS – Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences
13:35 – 13:50
Gezielt Besser Erinnern – Spiele als Lernartefakte
Prof. Dr. Greta Hoffmann
CGL – Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln
13:50 – 14:05
Diskussion
14:05 – 14:20
Abschlussdiskussion