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Official account of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces" at TU Berlin
Web: http://sfb1265.de/ || Blog: http://bit.ly/34Ajg1X || Podcast: https://is.gd/FRNSZ4
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📢Call for applications! #jobs
With our next funding phase due to start in January, we are now looking to fill a range of positions!

If you're interested in socio-spatial change and are looking for a PhD, postdoc or student assistant position, take a browse here:
sfb1265.de/en/aktuelles...
Job vacancies at Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” - SFB 1265 „Re-Figuration von Räumen“
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Gegenwärtig lassen sich dramatische räumliche Veränderungen beobachten: Zum Jahresabschluss ziehen wir in einem neuen Working Paper Bilanz aus 8 Jahren Forschung & Theoriebildung des SFB zum sozialen Wandel aus Raumperspektive und geben einen Ausblick auf die nächste Phase!

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December 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
New podcast episode out now!

Eva Korte (TU Berlin), Judith Keller (HU Berlin), and Khushboo Jain (FAU) in conversation with Michele Lancione (Politecnico di Torino) on ideas from his latest book “For a liberatory politics of home” (Duke University Press).

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December 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
If you missed this year's conference "Designing Refiguration – Refiguring Design", you can now rewatch several lectures on our Youtube channel!
Including talks by Georgeen Theodore, Gabu Heindl and Deane Simpson ⬇️🎧📺
#Design #Planning #Architecture #SpatialResearch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZaT...
Georgeen Theodore – People, Property and Practice: Neighborhood Planning Now in the USA
YouTube video by SFB 1265 Re-Figuration von Räumen
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December 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
📢Neuer Call!
Es wird eine Doktoratsstelle zur Durchführung qualitativer Interviews und Analysen zur digitalen Plattform von Airbnb im Teilprojekt C07 „Plattformökonomie“ des SFB 1265 an der FAU Erlangen angeboten!
Hier geht's zur Ausschreibung ⬇️
www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/wiss-pr...
Wiss. Projektstelle TV-L 13, 75% am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt transnationale Arbeit (m/w/d)
www.jobs.fau.de
December 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Save the date!

Das Symposium „Soziologische Positionen zum Planen und Bauen“ diskutiert den Beitrag der Soziologie zu räumlichen Transformationen - organisiert von der HfWU, in Kooperation mit SFB 1265, IRS Erkner & IBA’27 Stuttgart.

📅15.–16.01 📍Nürtingen
Zur Anmeldung👇
www.hfwu.de/anmeldung-sy...
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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📣 Job alert! 📣

For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026!

www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
3 research associates in social science (m/w/d)
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We're thrilled (and proud) to share this exciting news from our postdoc @dstoltenberg.bsky.social, who will be leading her own Emmy Noether group from next year! We're also delighted that the group will be associated with the #SFB1265.
Congratulations, Daniela!
Time to share some news I've been sitting on: starting in January, I will lead a @dfg.de Emmy Noether Group at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social! We will investigate how local public spheres are constituted under conditions of digitalization & globalization.

www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/...
Local Digital Public Spheres
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New Special Issue out now in Historical Social Research (HSR) @gesis.org! 📄📖
"Varieties of Refiguration - On Multiple Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements, and the Economy" offers a distinctive spatial and refigurative perspective to the sociology of economics and its multiple spatial arrangements.⬇️
Out now: #HSR 50.4 - Varieties of #Refiguration I
On Multiple #Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements, and the #Economy. (Nina Baur, Elettra Griesi, Lara Espeter, Florence Eyok, Elmar Kulke & Lynn Sibert)
The contributions in this HSR Special Issue analyze multiple spatialities in three key areas:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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💡 Publication alert!
@icsjournal.bsky.social

Based on interviews with youth activists in FFF Turkey and Israel, we explore how local conditions can complicate transnational collaboration — and how the “weak ties” that make connective action possible can also make it fragile.
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Großer Erfolg für die #TUBerlin: Die @dfg.de bewillgt einen neuen & einen bestehenden #Sonderforschungsbereich. 👏 Insgesamt rund 20 Mio. Euro gibt es für die #Forschung zur Pilzbiotechnologie & Raumsoziologie @sfb1265.bsky.social. Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die Geförderten! 💐
Weitere Infos 🧵⬇️(1/4)
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New open access book out now! 📖

"The Social Quality of Public Space" edited by Martina Löw & Letteria Fassari available @routledgebooks.bsky.social!

Using public spaces, the book demonstrates the benefits gained from an experience-based approach to quality.

Get it here:
doi.org/10.4324/9781...
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📢Call for applications! #jobs
With our next funding phase due to start in January, we are now looking to fill a range of positions!

If you're interested in socio-spatial change and are looking for a PhD, postdoc or student assistant position, take a browse here:
sfb1265.de/en/aktuelles...
Job vacancies at Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” - SFB 1265 „Re-Figuration von Räumen“
sfb1265.de
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We’re thrilled to share that the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (@dfg.de) will fund the #SFB1265 for a third funding phase! 🚀🎊🎉

This support allows us to continue our research on socio-spatial change and deepen our interdisciplinary work!

More to come soon!
www.tu.berlin/news/pressem...
www.tu.berlin
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Große Freude: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (@dfg.de) fördert unseren #SFB1265 für eine dritte Förderphase!🚀🎊🎉

Damit können wir unsere Forschung zu sozialräumlichem Wandel weiter voranbringen und die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit ausbauen!

Bald mehr dazu!
www.tu.berlin/news/pressem...
www.tu.berlin
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Reminder: the call is still open!
📢Call for Papers:
For a special issue of the "Journal of Mixed Methods Research", #sfb1265 researchers @viviensommer.bsky.social, @dstoltenberg.bsky.social and Ludovica Tomarchio invite contributions that connect mixed methods approaches with spatial theory! 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Call for Papers: Mixed Methods Research for Socio-Spatial Studies - Vivien Sommer, Daniela Stoltenberg, Ludovica Tomarchio, 2025
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June 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New Special Issue out now!

'Making a Home: Subjectivities and Spaces in Times of Refiguration' edited by #sfb1265 PI Jochen Kibel and Makau Kitata is out now in the Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Journal!

Read the articles here (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/toc/real20/1...
Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies
Making a Home: Subjectivities and Spaces in Times of Refiguration. Volume 11, Issue 4 of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Some impressions from our exhibition “Investigating Refiguration.”

Drawing on "Spacetimes Matter" (Jovis) and new collaborations, we explored how multiple temporalities and spatialities can be empirically mapped through experimental methodologies.

For more see: sfb1265.de/en/media-cen...
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our annual conference continues with a full house for talks by @gabuheindl.bsky.social and Jane Rendel!
#sfb1265
#RefiguringDesign
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We're continuing the first conference day with the panel discussion "The International Building Exhibition (IBA) as an Instrument of Refiguration"
#sfb1265 #DesigningRefiguration
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Our annual conference is just getting started!
#sfb1265
#DesigningRefiguration
#RefiguringDesign
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The first SPACE TALKS Zine is out!
Emerging from our lecture series, it extends our discussions on spatial thinking in a collaborative, experimental format.
This issue examines how neglecting informality obscures complex urban dynamics in the Global South.
Download here:
sfb1265.de/en/media-cen...
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
📢Reminder
Joins us at our annual conference:
"Designing Refiguration - Refiguring Design - Exploring Practices of Changing Spaces"
Registration closes on 31st of October!
#SocialChange #Design #Sociology #Architecture #UrbanPlanning
📢Registration is now open for the 7th International Conference of the #CRC1265!

"Designing Refiguration - Refiguring Design" will explore the role of design in socio-spatial change and its potential to address societal challenges.
📆6./7. Nov. 📍TU Berlin

Register here 👇
sfb1265.de/veranstaltun...
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Venice has been pictured endlessly for centuries.
In the #sfb1265 art and research project "Imaginations of Venice", Stefanie Bürkle investigates the city's transformation in relation to this vast circulation of images.

🎬Learn more about the project here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=34FB...
Imaginations of Venice
YouTube video by Bildende Kunst_Stefanie_Buerkle
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Wie prägt die Digitalisierung der Lehre & Forschung die Planung von Hochschulbauten und Campi?
In der neuen Ausgabe von Arch+ sprechen #sfb1265 Sprecherin Martina Löw und Christa Reicher (RWTH Aachen) mit Thorsten Erl und Tobias Hönig über Raumfiguren des
Hochschulbaus.👇
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October 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📢Registration is now open for the 7th International Conference of the #CRC1265!

"Designing Refiguration - Refiguring Design" will explore the role of design in socio-spatial change and its potential to address societal challenges.
📆6./7. Nov. 📍TU Berlin

Register here 👇
sfb1265.de/veranstaltun...
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM