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I am an architect and spatial researcher based in Berlin and Santo Domingo. My research investigates the social dynamics behind spatial production, the movement of subjects across territories, the spaces they find themselves interacting with, and the narratives that surround them.
My doctoral research examines plural methodologies and epistemologies for investigating how space is assembled in a transcalar manner by focusing on the spatialization of practices of care and social reproduction in plantation territories in the Caribbean.
I am part of the collective spatial:cru. There, we use critical pedagogies of co~creation, re:cognition, and (un)learning to question dominant structures of knowledge and oppressive spatial relations while articulating practices of collaboration.
2024 - Doctoral Candidate, Hochschule Anhalt
2020 - 2023 M.Sc. Architecture Typologies, TU Berlin
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Ismet Berke Çakır, Tri Kien Cao, Pablo Figueiredo, Tanya Jose, Aliya Mohammed, Khadija Umair.
As a point of departure, we considered the “seemingly unimportant labour” of cleaners, gleaners, fixers, and other human or non-human actors whose efforts often go unnoticed in maintaining and sustaining life in urban settings. We echo the belief that this calls for a relational and scaled-down perspective, grounded in embodied knowledge and in getting our hands dirty as we “buck up with the mundane” (Frichot 2019). In this workshop, we introduced and collectively reflected on the entanglements of care, maintenance, and marginalised urban settings.
Participants were asked to combine routine practices—such as walking, sensing, and assembling—as they collected mundane everyday trash to find traces of urban care and maintenance. Considering the different scales at stake, these were combined and assembled using spatial research methods, which included mapping and spatial storytelling.
2025
workshop + lecture
COOP Design Research MA, Bauhaus Dessau
with Lea Weise
workshop + lecture
COOP Design Research MA, Bauhaus Dessau
with Lea Weise
plantation mutations: on architectures of extraction
The seminar revolved around the making and un-making of the plantation: an early exemplary territory of extraction, a geography of racial and gender unevenness (McKrittick 2013), representative of today’s modes of relations (Glissant 1997). A model that is not bound to time or space, as it was perfected so that it can be implemented by “multiple actors in numerous locations, for a variety of purposes” (Gomes da Cunha 2011). Therefore, in the context of the seminar, the plantation is not seen as monolithic, but rather as a laboratory space (Russert 2019) for transferring colonial knowledge and thus producing gender, racial, and labor hierarchies, which have reshaped ways of being, experiencing, and relating to the world.
At the beginning of our course, we explored the complexity and materialisation of the system, and later reflected on its mutation by examining through a spatial analysis of case studies, how its logic has been and continues to be transferred to other economies, landscapes, and spaces.
This course fostered alternative readings of architectural production. It aimed to contribute to a broader understanding of local and global spatial histories by centring spatialities and geographies that remain peripheral and often neglected in architectural discourse.
The seminar revolved around the making and un-making of the plantation: an early exemplary territory of extraction, a geography of racial and gender unevenness (McKrittick 2013), representative of today’s modes of relations (Glissant 1997). A model that is not bound to time or space, as it was perfected so that it can be implemented by “multiple actors in numerous locations, for a variety of purposes” (Gomes da Cunha 2011). Therefore, in the context of the seminar, the plantation is not seen as monolithic, but rather as a laboratory space (Russert 2019) for transferring colonial knowledge and thus producing gender, racial, and labor hierarchies, which have reshaped ways of being, experiencing, and relating to the world.
At the beginning of our course, we explored the complexity and materialisation of the system, and later reflected on its mutation by examining through a spatial analysis of case studies, how its logic has been and continues to be transferred to other economies, landscapes, and spaces.
This course fostered alternative readings of architectural production. It aimed to contribute to a broader understanding of local and global spatial histories by centring spatialities and geographies that remain peripheral and often neglected in architectural discourse.
WiSe 2025/2026
elective module
Master’s of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt
elective module
Master’s of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt
care to map?
Current practices of spatial analysis in architecture often don’t deal –or present limitations when introducing everyday practices of care and social reproduction, leading to a limited perspective on how space comes to be materialized and sustained, and overlooking how often it echoes structures of power.
The seminar aimed to bridge theoretical reflection with practical explorations by departing from various dimensions of feminist theory to explore and introduce other categories, methodologies, and concepts that seek alternative forms of spatial analysis. By having the notion of care as focus, the elective intended to introduce a critical understanding of spatial analysis and its agency (Corner, 2011; Awan, 2017) by looking into spatial mapping methods and tools.
Throughout the seminar, we explored how a feminist approach to mapping can help us, as practitioners and researchers, develop new ways of analyzing, understanding, and visualizing space beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries.
Current practices of spatial analysis in architecture often don’t deal –or present limitations when introducing everyday practices of care and social reproduction, leading to a limited perspective on how space comes to be materialized and sustained, and overlooking how often it echoes structures of power.
The seminar aimed to bridge theoretical reflection with practical explorations by departing from various dimensions of feminist theory to explore and introduce other categories, methodologies, and concepts that seek alternative forms of spatial analysis. By having the notion of care as focus, the elective intended to introduce a critical understanding of spatial analysis and its agency (Corner, 2011; Awan, 2017) by looking into spatial mapping methods and tools.
Throughout the seminar, we explored how a feminist approach to mapping can help us, as practitioners and researchers, develop new ways of analyzing, understanding, and visualizing space beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries.
WiSe 2024
block seminar
Master’s of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt
block seminar
Master’s of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt
on positionality, the everyday and spatial research
We perform, experience, and occupy space through our bodies, making it impossible to talk about most everyday experiences without referring to spaces (Martina Löw, 2024). Although we engage with space collectively, our experiences are individual and shaped by our subjectivity, as well as by social hierarchies embedded in current systems of domination.
Drawing on feminist theory, the seminar aimed to introduce the matter of positionality in parallel with methodologies of spatial research which aim to address such discourse in order to begin to recognize the nuances of spatial experience and embodiment.
We perform, experience, and occupy space through our bodies, making it impossible to talk about most everyday experiences without referring to spaces (Martina Löw, 2024). Although we engage with space collectively, our experiences are individual and shaped by our subjectivity, as well as by social hierarchies embedded in current systems of domination.
Drawing on feminist theory, the seminar aimed to introduce the matter of positionality in parallel with methodologies of spatial research which aim to address such discourse in order to begin to recognize the nuances of spatial experience and embodiment.
WiSe 2024
lecture+workshop
lecture+workshop
COOP Design Research MA, Bauhaus Dessau
culture, history and theory of architecture (assistant lecturer)
Assistance on specific lectures and the development of students’ research projects with a focus on typologies of care and social reproduction situated at the moment of industrialisation.
SoSe 2024, 2025, 2026
compulsory module
Master’s of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt
Master’s of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt