CO+

We are happy to announce the annual topic for 2026/2027*: Cohabitation and Collaboration is an invitation to collectively work towards social-ecological transformations at BURG.

Cohabitation and Collaboration asks “how”: How are we living (coinhabiting) and working (collaborating) together? And how do we want to live and work together in the future? More specifically, we want to focus on the needs of ecosystems and other species and shift away from a human-centered perspective when talking about sustainability. For example, how can collaborative modes of working foster sustainability? With whom are we sharing the campus and the city? Where do we encounter the more-than-human within the arts? Or how could we make the BURG more resilient?

Over one year we want to experiment and see how transformation efforts in teaching and workshops, art and design, administration and library, on campus and beyond could unfold in practice. We are inviting everyone within the school to collectively develop projects, ideas, or measures, which we will actively support to bring them into action. This can be anything from a collective initiative towards more biodiversity on campus to a semester project connected to the topic of cohabitation, to an artistic perspective on the more-than-human, to the appointment of a speaker of the living for the BURG.

 

summer semester 2027

While we are sowing the seeds in winter for the annual topic we hope for it to blossom and thrive during the summer semester 2027! Together we want to work on semester projects, measures or interventions regarding cohabitation and collaboration at BURG.

All projects and initiatives will be part of one curriculum, connecting all projects in an interdisciplinary, common and sustainable gesture. The CO+CURRICULUM will be published in early spring 2027. If you would like to connect with your project, please reach out to provisorium@burg-halle.de

The projects will be embedded in the annual topic curriculum and network. We as the team of Provisorium will be there to support, to share resources, initiative cooperations, to support editing processes, and create visibility for the projects.

All projects will be part of a series of guided tour regarding the topic of cohabitation and collaboration during the Jahresausstellung 2027 as well as part of the publication documenting the process of the annual topic.

 

CO+SESSION

On October 1.–2. we will offer a deep-dive into the topic of cohabitation and collaboration as part of the festival »CO+SESSION«, made up of lectures, workshops, and excursions. Full programme: https://www.burg-halle.de/artikel/a/cosession