LECTURE
Negotiating Everydayness

Berlin International University

November 2025

In this lecture, we reflect on our research projects and practices that approach everyday life carefully and critically as an epistemological resource. In one research project in Berlin, we critically examined patterns of consumption and neoliberal, market-driven urbanism; in another workshop project in semi-rural area in Zhejiang (CN), we observed and explored alternative forms of collective living grounded in networks of circular economies that negotiate materials, modest artefacts, and human actors in inherently political ways. By learning from diverse realities of repair, adaptation, and improvisation, we conceive of our practice as a laboratory: a space where knowledge gathered in the fields can be tested, translated, and put into practice.