Julika Gittner

Artist exploring the role of sculpture in contested politics of space
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United Kingdom (residence), Germany (citizenship) °1974
research interests: public sculpture, art & activism, art & regeneration, sustainability, social justice
affiliation: RIFS
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Julika Gittner practices, researches and teaches across the disciplines of art and architecture. Julika holds a Senior Research Fellowship at the RIFS Research Institute for Sustainability, GFZ Helmholtz Centre in Potsdam where she researches the potential for sculpture to act as an alternative medium for the communication of knowledge in public consultation processes around mobility transformations in Berlin. She is teaching a history and theory course on ‘Consultation counter-cultures’ at the Architectural Association in London. Her artworks have been shown internationally and she has recently completed an interdisciplinary practice-based PhD in Fine Art and Architecture, funded by the AHRC SWW DTP2, investigating the role of sculpture as counter evidence in social housing campaigns. She was a design fellow at the University of Cambridge from 2010 to 2023, leading First Year on the BA in Architecture (2010-2019) and teaching on the MPhil and MArch courses (2019-2023).

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  • The application of creative practice as a means of disrupting or re-defining the dynamics of power in, with or for different communities. (2022) author(s): Sabrin Hasbun, Gareth Osborne, Rachel Carney, Julika Gittner, Catherine Cartwright, agnes villette, Harry Matthews published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    In this exposition, seven research practitioners investigate how creative practice can be applied as a form of knowledge production in order to disrupt or re-define the dynamics of power in a range of different contexts. These applications of creative practice take varied and complex forms, often transferring creativity from the practitioner-researcher to their participants, increasing participant agency or re-defining existing hierarchies, as they form, empower, and enlighten real and conceptual communities. This collaborative exposition has been developed through presentations and discussions over the course of two years. Although each researcher applies different methodologies to their individual projects, our work as a group followed a pattern of creative practice, reflection, and reformulation, as we responded to each other’s research, creating a research community of our own. We want to emphasize that creative practice can not only disrupt or re-define the dynamics of power in a range of different contexts, but that it can do this in an infinite number of ways. In this variety and adaptability lies the potential of creative research.
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