Between the lines of module plans, beyond measurable learning objectives, processes unfold that often go unnoticed – but are central to teaching. What if we take this "periphery" as a starting point: as a space where relationships, tensions, movement, and care become tangible, making a different kind of learning possible? In this roundtable, four educators from different institutions and disciplines will come together, whose work raises specific questions about the center and the margins of teaching: Whether through the practice of thinking of theory as a lived space, understanding group processes as a foundational element of learning, or through the consistent engagement with intersectional perspectives.
The event will be held in German.
The panel will take place as part of the exhibition “Soft Spaces, Shared Grounds.”
Juana Awad is a Colombian-Canadian curator, artist, lecturer, and researcher based in Berlin, working at the intersections of aesthetic theory and practice. Her primary interest lies in the intertwining of curatorial and decolonial practices, the impact of institutional processes on the reception of art, and the political potential in exhibition contexts. Her current work is grounded in a decolonial conceptual framework and historicizes diasporic curatorial practices in post-migrant Germany. From 2021 to 2025, Awad was an artistic researcher and lecturer in the field of Theory and History at the weißensee school of art and design berlin. Currently, she is a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study – “inherit. heritage in transformation” at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Ivana Jović has been a lecturer in the BA Process Design program at HyperWerk of the HGK Basel since 2019 and leads the continuing education program at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM). After studying Visual Communication and working as a graphic designer for several years, Ivana completed a Master's degree in Integrative Design in Basel. The subject of her thesis was focused on dialogical process design and the experimental development of the "Freeform" study format at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). As a designer, Ivana is concerned with facilitating – creating spaces for encounters and collaboration – as well as process and communication design with a focus on anti-discriminatory concepts.
Anna Unterstab is an artistic researcher and lecturer in the field of Information Design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. Unterstab works from a feminist and queer perspective and publishes critical design theory. Her latest book, Design intersektional unter die Lupe nehmen – Gestaltung als Komplize von Diskriminierung und als widerständiges Werkzeug, was published by adocs Verlag. In her independent design practice in Hamburg, Anna Unterstab designs exhibition spaces, event and meeting formats, and printed matter for the social and cultural sector. Recurring themes in her work include empowerment, vulnerability, memory culture, power critique, community, and care.
Stefanie Rau is an artistic researcher and lecturer in the field of Artistic-Design Fundamentals at weißensee school of art and design berlin and currently serves as a visiting professor at Hochschule RheinMain in Wiesbaden. She sees teaching as the creation of spaces and has been working since 2021 as part of the artistic research project +dimensions on the intersections of seemingly peripheral learning and teaching spaces.