Spatial Cosmology Assembly, Act II
With Silvia Franceschini, Morad Montazami & Joanna Warsza
Free participation
Organized by the Center for Spatial Cosmology (CSC) at HafenCity University Hamburg.
Team: Michael Hirschbichler, Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Can Grothmann, Ali Al-Saadi, Rosa Cors
Introduction and moderation: Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Michael Hirschbichler
To launch its public program, the Center for Spatial Cosmology cordially invites you to the Spatial Cosmology Assembly – a four-part series on how cosmologies and spaces shape one another in times of ecological crisis, technological transformation, and social fragmentation.
The second act with Silvia Franceschini, Morad Montazami and Joanna Warsza, taking place at the Kunsthaus Hamburg, turns to terrestrial spaces as ecological, social and political terrains, foregrounding extractive frontiers, contested territories, and curatorial and artistic practices that negotiate resources, belonging and possible futures.
Rather than fixing a single theme, the Assembly invites questions, methods, stories and perspectives as contributions to what “spatial cosmology” can be or become. “Assembly” here is understood as both practice and setting: a shared encounter where knowledge is not delivered but formed together and where positions remain open and responsive to the space and those present. Each act is conceived as a situated constellation in which artistic, scholarly, and everyday forms of knowledge meet on equal footing through conversations, lectures, screenings, and visual, sonic, or performative propositions.
Act I: Kunstverein in Hamburg, 3 December 2025, 6:30 pm
Act II: Kunsthaus Hamburg, 11 December 2025, 6:30 pm
Act III: HafenCity University Hamburg, 18 December 2025, 6:30 pm
Act IV: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 22 January 2026, 6:30 pm
The Center for Spatial Cosmology (CSC) is a newly founded transdisciplinary platform that links art, architecture and anthropology. It is anchored in the Professorship of Experimental Creation led by Michael Hirschbichler at HafenCity University Hamburg.
The project is supported by Hamburg Innovation.