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This workshop reflects the ongoing collective inquiry by ICI Fellows into the concept of scale. Contributions to the workshop explore scale as it appears in various thematic and disciplinary contexts ranging from theories of artificial intelligence to anthropology and philosophy, and from literary studies to media studies to gender and queer theory.

With Filippo Bosco, Kirill Chepurin, Franco Costantini, Federica Di Blasio, Yuri Di Liberto, Tobi Haslett, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Magdalena Krysztoforska, José Antonio Magalhães, Jasmine Pisapia, Angelica Stathopoulos, and Verónica Stedile Luna

Organized by current ICI Fellow cohort

Registration required.

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Emancipatory movements in Europe and beyond have either lost momentum or are facing unprecedented repression. Meanwhile, private sector elites (and their political allies) have taken off their white gloves, pursuing profit, power, and prestige in ways that are increasingly barbaric. Given the current situation, in which short-term progress seems more out of reach than ever, it is time to explore the root causes of our dire predicament and what it will take to create a radically better world for everyone.

Organised by BG (Berliner Gazette) in cooperation with ICI Berlin and ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics. Funded by German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Free entry, limited seats, registration by October 13 required. Register here

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Conceptions of scale often start by assuming objects (which are at a scale or may change scales) or assuming subjects (who re-present or form scales). A different notion of scale, resolution, and science emerges when scale is considered independently from this presumption of objects and subjects. As a device for measuring variations, observations, and experience, scale tracks changes in the configurations of objects, actors, and subjects specifically in relation to units of space and time.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Scale

Livestream available.
Registration opens on 7 Oct 2025.

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Scales are used to quantify properties such as length and temperature, or also to measure popularity and affect. But as Alice discovers in Wonderland, a change of scale can also have dramatic qualitative consequences. It disrupts customary ways of perceiving, acting, and being — to the point of feeling as ‘queer’ to her as a caterpillar’s metamorphoses.

Monday, 29 September 2025, 19:30
Mina Gorji

Monday, 20 October 2025, 19:30
Joshua DiCaglio

Monday, 17 November 2025, 19:30
Nurit Bird-David

Monday, 1 December 2025, 19:30
Yannick Giovanni Marshall

Monday, 23 March 2026, 19:30
Lisa Messeri

Monday, 18 May 2026, 19:30
Heather Love

Further talks to be announced soon.

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Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational. The essays in Breaking and Making Models engage with the normative and performative qualities of models, their aesthetic and political dimensions, and their world-making potentials. Bringing such perspectives into a broad interdisciplinary dialogue, this book explores ways to work creatively with models.

Hardcover | 38.5 EUR
Paperback | 21 EUR

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