Tijana Stevanović
@tijana
weeping revolutionary frowning with a ‘recession grimace’ architectural humanities via cultural studies, history, labour, technologies @UCL parent of a toddler with four mother tongues
Reading Harun Farocki and seeing intersections with Sérgio Ferro‘s view of building industry that I will briefly reflect on tonight at IAS
oh Berlin, really? now, when I am moving out of Volksbühne’s neighbourhood?!
This has been a highlight of 2025, esp. the essayfilm, not included below
📣Publication day🎉 ⚒️ ‘Through its engagement with the groundbreaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a history of architecture ‘seen from the building site’, the book sets out a programme for a new field of Production Studies for architecture and other disciplines.’
It is not Germany if there is no statelessness drama experienced. Radical filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta was also an ‚alien’ until her 1st marriage in FRG. Show @ n.b.k. +Babylon,Berlin. Esp.enjoyed ‚Die blierne Zeit’ exhibit, correspondence w Gudrun Ensslin‘s sister Christiane, &Christa Wolf.
‘69, not just l’année érotique, but also a year when some architects in the manufacturing sector - surprise, surprise - sided with Enoch Powell
This is actually the first time in my life to see coal as a household fuel. And it is (checks notes) in leafy Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, 2025. Not in the picture, single human carrying these full baskets of coal on his back.
From the time when Palestinian lives in Gaza still meant something to the world. Grandad's photos as a financial officer in UNEF peackeeping mission in Sinai 1965. Mostly joy and posturing: refereeing football matches in Gaza, holidays in Lebanon, some matcho socialising. 1/2
Enzo Traverso's fierce critique of the return to 'Grossdeutschland', in New German Critique. End both funny and horrifying.
Discovered that preschool children in the 80s, 90s, ... today's Germany got to know that being a Baumesiter also meant having a peculiar ethnic background, gulp #hiddencurriculum
'Interesting'. Little Georg Grosz museum closes after only 2,5 years of its exsistence. The newish Berlin coalition doesn't want to continue co-financing it.
Memorials errected in the late 80s to the politically prosecuted in (the 30s) Berlin's artist colony, Wilmersdorf. Obscured by the construction works, curiously
German media hype about RAF today and recent arrest of Klette smells like agressive revisionism of 'German autumn'
Something that terrifies + enrages both the university lecturer and the mum of a young daughter in me. Young men growing more conservative than their grandfathers, while young women becoming ever more liberal and open-minded. Seemingly the same generation, but not really
A coincidence just made my day. This Wilhelm Reich's book was published in the 30s Berlin by the publisher that used to be based two streets away from my current residence. #oldsocialistwest
today I randomly remembered that Spivak really did appear once in Aesop cosmetics' magazine 😮
Bad photo of a great project on partisan photography archive by Davor Konjikusic unwantedimages.org
Jenny Odell's writing on 'uncommon times' feels both sobering and makes me want to weep
Haven't read the book, but the poster title seems appropriate for my first post on the new platform 'Wir alle sind auf dieser Welt nur Gastarbeiter'. Berlin Hassliebe