«Commons», understood as the common basis, the common good, the common resource, but also as a practice of «commoning», of working, researching and sharing together, has been a permanent teaching and research topic in the MA Transdisciplinarity and in the research focus Transdisciplinarity FSP-T in the last two years. In addition, the questions of the extent to which the wind tunnel can position itself as a link between teaching and research and how artistic researchers can co-create formats together with students and lecturers formed the starting point for this lab. The wind tunnel on the roof of the Toni-Areal became the object of study. How can the idea of commons/commoning be implemented in an existing institution and its framework conditions, how does this change take place? Can such an institution be transformed into an inclusive - and sustainable - institution without losing its previous identity or institutional orientation? How can this change be initiated from within and created in a collective process? On the one hand, the wind tunnel was examined as an institutional space in which all questions of commonality within an institution can be dealt with; on the other hand, it served as a concrete space for the group to focus on discourses as well as on practice.
The teaching format took the form of a one-week block week and a lab with a two-week rotation and with a voluntary organisational in-between-meeting, where the next lab was planned and created together. The block week took place in the wind tunnel itself. The lab became a kitchen and was enlivened with many guests (School of Commons, Eirini Sourgiadaki, Felipe Ribeiro, Florian Dombois, Aga Pediziwiatr).
Njomza Dragusha, Fabian Gutscher, Prof. Basil Rogger and Prof. Irene Vögeli
Lab, MA Transdisciplinary Studies