Translation is a feminist practice. It is a labor of care, reaching across boundaries to listen, hold, and carry meaning from one place to another. To translate is to assert that no voice is too distant, no story too unfamiliar, no knowledge too obscure to be shared. This text reflects on the feminist politics of carrying stories across affective, geographical, and linguistic borders.

An edited version of the text was published on Futuress.org in December 2025.
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Using Karlsruhe as an example, “Whose Stories” asks who is remembered in the context of urban (hi)stories—and who is not. In a digital map, a row of audio works makes tangible and discusses who is given visibility and under what circumstances. While critically examining what already exists, the collection aims to retell and broaden prevailing stories and give space to experiences and memories rendered invisible in dominant urban remembrance.
As an incomplete compendium, the collection captures empowering moments, gives space to personal memories, and discusses social relations. It is a critical contribution and a joyful extension to archiving, documenting, and collecting practices, as well as a plea for deep listening and respectful curiosity, for asking questions and opening up space.

With contributions by: Susanne Asche, Vanessa Bosch, Mélanie Cao, Jaya Demmer, Mascha Dilger, Katrin Dort, Feministisches Kollektiv Karlsruhe e.V. (FKK), Flâneusen, Vera Gärtner, seraina maria kober, Hanna Müller, Annette Niesyto, Hanna Scherwinski, Josefine Scheu, Volker Steck, and Leia Walz.

The project was funded through UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts

“First, Then... Repeat” is a collection of methods and aspects of collective learning and sharing practices across different localities, timelines, and experiences.
“Across Distance and Difference” explores the possibilities and challenges of (re)connecting despite different life situations, rhythms, and localities. With two prompts and an interview, it looks for rituals and playful approaches to giving time and space for personally meaningful things in a world strongly shaped by time precarity.

The interview with artists and designers Francisca Khamis Giacoman and Tina Omayemi Reden discusses the bodily aspects of video calls, the notion of “one digital space,” and how digital communication has changed since COVID-19.

In two parts, the work investigates corporeality in digital communication such as video calls, phone calls and voice messages.
The first part, Hybrid Encounters, consists of interviews with performers and somatic coaches Roni Katz, Julia Bonn, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, and Tina Reden. The conversations share how their workshop formats were translated into a digital setting and examine different aspects of listening and speaking.
The second part, In Close Distance, is dedicated to the performative dialogue format Between Us by performer and choreographer Roni Katz. Together with the artist, three different digital settings were investigated in terms of texture, intimacy, and corporeality. Recordings of the performative investigations were shown as a 6-channel sound installation in the atrium of the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design in February 2022.
Excerpts of the first part can be read here.

The “Glossary of Undisciplined Design” looks into undisciplinarity as a feminist unpacking of the field of graphic design, dogmatic rules, discriminatory structures, and a particularly one-sided canon. Carried by a decidedly fragmentary and collective backbone, the GUD handbook combines various theories and narratives of varying densities—from visual essays, hands-on experiments, interviews, or advertorials, to poems, speculative tales, and academic writing.
“E for Embracing Differences” is an excerpt of the project “I don’t know. Are you sure?”—an experiment on embracing frictions and disagreement when working together.
Read more about the project below.

C for Collective Uncertainties is an excerpt of the conversation “I don’t know. Me neither” held at the Glossary of Undisciplined Design Symposium in February 2020. While giving insights into the projects F for Failing Queerly, P for Professional Amateur, and E for Embracing Differences—all published in the Glossary of Undisciplined Design—, the conversation dives into the underrepresented surprises of failure, the joys of amateurism, and the power of redefining weakness.

19 tender rituals, joyful interventions and narratives in the face of loneliness—developed by various artists, designers and writers as an invitation to experiment and engage with broader forms of relationships and notions of the self.
Check out all 19 approaches on the website and read the text on Futuress.org.

Feminist Findings presents stories on the labor, loves, networks, hierarchies, friendships, fall-outs, struggles, victories, economics, designs, and daily lives of womxn in the past, working out what it might mean to organize a feminist praxis.
The Courage To Take Space sifts through the German 70s feminist magazine Courage. Mapping women's cafes, pubs, and feminist bookstores listed in the classified ads, the texts asks: Where did these spaces go, and how has the feminist movement changed to this day?
Read the whole text on Futuress.org

I don’t know. Are you sure? searches for a way of working together that actively engages with friction and appreciates differences instead of seeking the comforts of compromise and middle ground. The collection of fifteen collaborative methods is accompanied by short interviews reflecting on topics such as conflict, sharing skills and resources, and the resilience.
A free pdf can be downloaded here.