Assembly Research Collective

The authors are a project-based group of students and lecturers from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG Karlsruhe), studying exhibition design and scenography and art theory. At the center of their shared interest is the question of how an assembly can be understood, shaped, and reflected upon as an artistic practice. The work on the Fragmented Documentation of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes emerged from this common interest and approaches documentation not as a neutral record, but as a situated, polyphonic process. In parallel, the topic of assembly in art was explored from different perspectives: theoretically in the seminar Art of Assembly (Florian Malzacher) and practically in the seminar Ministry for the Future (Constanze Fischbeck) Prof. Constanze Fischbeck (Scenography), Edona Ibrahimi (Art Research and media philosophy), Josephine Leicht (Scenography and Exhibition Design), Prof. Florian Malzacher (Dramaturgy and Curatorial Practice), Elisabeth Potemkin (Art Research and Media Philosophy), Ewa Wasilewska (Art Research and Media Philosophy) Joanna Flößer (Communication Design), Moritz Schneider (Communication Design), and Kristian Vrahr (Communication Design) translated the approaches developed into the design for a website.