Anna Boyksen Fellowship

The Anna Boyksen Fellowship (TUM-IAS) is offered to outstanding top-level female professors from outside TUM who intend to explore gender- and/or diversity-relevant topics in the context of a TUM research group. The Focus Group of Anna Boyksen Fellow Prof. Nathalie Bredella (Leibniz University Hannover) and her host Prof. Dietrich Erben (TUM School of Engineering and Design, Department of Architecture) introduced a focus on feminist practices and the history of the digital in architecture.

In order to encourage a critical engagement with the history of the digital in architecture, the Focus Group explored methods of feminist practices in research and teaching. This Focus Group brought together the chairs of Theory and History of Architecture, Art and Design, of Architectural Informatics, Urban Design, Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, Digital Fabrication, as well as the Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice, in order to explore methods of writing history in the context of digital cultures. Who have been the protagonists in the development of digital practices and how are they situated within local knowledge structures and their social, economic and political contexts? What roles do activism, oral history, and reenactment play in understanding digital cultures? These are among the questions that the Focus Group has addressed as it explores methodologies and events which have not previously been included in architectural history. By focusing on the history of technology together with an international network of scholars, it has engaged with situated precedents of digital practices and how they relate to contemporary discourse.

Desire and Denial: Constructing and Contesting Infrastructures
Eds. Grayson Bailey, Nathalie Bredella, Dietrich Erben
Dec. 2025, Distanz Verlag 
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Technoecologies
Eds. Grayson Bailey, Nathalie Bredella, e-Flux Architecture
Nov 2025, e-Flux Architecture 
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Desire and Denial Workshop
Nathalie Bredella, Dietrich Erben
29. Jan 2025 @ TUM IAS 
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Agentive Matter(s) Workshop
Nathalie Bredella, Anna Keune, Kathrin Dörfler, Pierluigi D'Acunto
22. Nov 2024 @ TUM IAS 
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Link It and Move It Youth Workshop
Grayson Bailey, Nathalie Bredella, Jonah Marrs
12. Okt 2024 @ Deutsches Museum 

Fabricating Archaeologies: Feminist Craft, Human Hands and Intelligent Architectures Workshop
Nathalie Bredella, Andrea Reichenberger (TUM), Rudolf Seising (TUM)
3.-4. Juli 2024 @ TUM IAS  

Prepared Instruments and Craft Genealogies
Grayson Bailey, Nathalie Bredella, Jonah Marrs
7. Juni 2024 @ TUM Pavilion 333  
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