The project Terrestrial Cosmologies – Moving along Rivers and Mountains is an experimental cooperation between art and design students, lecturers and practitioners from Vienna, Batman and Hamburg. Integrating the fields of art education, experimental and eco-social design, site-specific poetry, and artistic research, the interdisciplinary program explores decolonial pedagogical methodologies, community practices and artistic/design approaches within rural infrastructures along the Tigris river in the Kurdish region of Southeast Turkey.
Terrestrial Cosmologies took place between 19th-26th April 2026 within the Erasmus BIP program as a collaboration between the Batman University Turkiye, Fine Arts Academy (Prof. Pelin Tan), University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Experimental Design Class (Prof. Dr. Jesko Fezer), and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Art and Communication Practices (Prof. Annette Krauss, Prof. Sofia Bempeza).
With special thanks to Pelin Tan, Ibrahim H. Demirel, Emrah Işık, Jesko Fezer, Merve Gül Özokcu, Zelal Gezici, Jakup Ayhan.
Art and Communication Practices Group Stella Binar, Hannah Höll, Edo Katavić, Radostina Kostadinova, Niklas Wolf, Sofia Bempeza, Annette Krauss
Event
Pedagogies of Care and Design in Batman. A Public Gathering and Report from a Collaborative Journey
Date & Place Sunday, 5th of July, 3 – 5 pm Floating University Berlin
with Jesko Fezer, Pelin Tan, Sofia Bempeza, Annette Krauss, Merve Gül Özokcu, İbrahim Halil Demirel, Zelal Gezici, Studio Experimental Design – HFBK Hamburg, Art and Communication Practices – Angewandte Wien, Batman University
3 Projects – Collective Landscape Kitchen Yakıtlı / Zêwa Alîka – Terrestrial Cosmologies: Moving Along Rivers and Mountains – Ecological Threshold Space Amphitheater Workshop
A Blended Erasmus Project 2026, Batman University (Türkiye), University of Fine Arts, HFBK Hamburg (Germany), University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria)
