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School of Commons
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Instant Fiction

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Anna Dial
Natalia Pais Fornari
Eco-Anxiety Büro
Michiel Huijsman
Jeremy Knowles
Exercises for Digital Age
Color Sadness Spectrum
Chubby Bambino collaborative fanzine workshop
Commoning Karaoke
Hand breast heart-Kollektiv
Pages of Ephemeral Chronicles
verwandlungen/metamorphoses
Another possible story, feminist reading and writing workshop
Residual Flourishing
Intikuren: Paths & Perspectives
What if...? A Transdisciplinary Discourse on the Future of Healthy, Green Cities
Diary Study: secret of wetness
In Celebration of Obsolescence
Embracing Slowness
The Value of a M2
Nomadic Sun
Recollections Like Threads






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Michiel Huijsman in Residency
October 2024

Co-Making Matters hosted artist, researcher, and curator Michiel Huijsman for a week-long residency focused on sonic environments and listening practices in public space. Based between Amsterdam and Berlin, Huijsman has been co-coordinating Soundtrackcity since 2009—a curatorial collective and artistic research agency investigating the sonic dimensions of urban life.

During the residency, Huijsman transformed the Co-Making Matters container into a personal listening space and workshop site. The space functioned as a meeting point for listening from, to, in, and with the world—blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, self and unfamiliar other. His research combined walking, sound studies, and participatory methods, building on prior work done in the area.

This residency revisited and expanded upon Huijsman’s 2021 project involving the Sonic Aggregator, an artistic listening object presented at Alexanderplatz, where he conducted participatory research on the diverse sonic milieus around Haus der Statistik. In October 2024, Huijsman returned to further develop these investigations and to lay the groundwork for a larger project on Sonic Placemaking planned for 2025.

As part of the residency, two public listening walks were organized:
  • Full Moon Walk – Thursday, 17 October 2024, 19:00–21:00
  • Sunday Morning Walk – Sunday, 20 October 2024, 10:00–12:00

Both events invited participants to reflect critically on their sonic ambiance, considering the ethics and politics of everyday sounds, and the right of way within shared environments. The walks centered around Alexanderplatz, exploring questions such as:

How do sonic sensorial qualities of urban spaces play into (in)justice, (in)equality, and power relations in public space, particularly around Alexanderplatz?

The walks and discussions included invited guests and collaborators from Berlin with personal and professional ties to the area. Through this collective inquiry, Huijsman introduced a methodology of walking as meeting and walking as being, engaging both human and more-than-human perspectives to question the affordances of the city’s auditory landscape.
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