FROM MEASURE TO MATTER: PLANETARY PRACTICES BEYOND CALCULATION

26.02.2026 - 27.02.2026
With Angela Ka Ki Lee, Eduardo Kairuz, Sam Spurr

26. and 27.02.2026 / daadgalerie

A GEO and HAAU collaboration, led by the 2025 Planetary Transitions Artists in Residence Sam Spurr, Eduardo Kairuz, and Angela Lee
Invited guest: Daniel Barber, Professor of Architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven

Workshop: Thursday 26th, Friday 27th February, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

This transdisciplinary two-day workshop brings together creative thinkers from architecture, art, critical theory and social sciences to explore questions of scale and representation within contemporary energy regimes. Set against a backdrop of escalating climate crisis, widening social inequity, and profound geopolitical turmoil, the workshop responds to the growing recognition that predominantly data-driven approaches to planetary action have failed to motivate serious, sociopolitical transformation. In response, the aim is to foreground material, spatial, embodied, and affective practices as critical sites of inquiry.
The workshop will conclude with a public panel open to all.

 If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please contact Sam.Spurr1@newcastle.edu.au.

Public Panel: Friday 27th February, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

The roundtable discussion offers an opportunity to engage with a wider public audience and share the findings of the workshop. This will be given in the round with the invitation for participation by the audience. Building on the ideas and methods developed over the course of the workshop, this conversation will trace emerging discussion threads and open them up for collective reflection. Participants from architecture, art, environmental and social sciences will speak to the questions of matter, scale, and embodiment that shaped their collaborative work. The event aims to situate these insights within broader debates around contemporary energy regimes, inviting dialogue, critique, and new perspectives.

Workshop and panel in English
Free admission

daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161, Berlin-Kreuzberg

The DAAD Arts and Media program, the City of Potsdam and the Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) have launched a new fellowship programme, the ‘Planetary Transitions: Potsdam Artist Residency’. The fellowship is open to artists from abroad or those who have only recently moved to Germany and will be realised at the RIFS. The fellows work on their projects on campus and are supported in networking with researchers at RIFS as well as cultural and scientific institutions in the greater Potsdam/Berlin area.