Dorothee Halbrock
Dorothee Halbrock, Guest Professor of Social Design
Contact:
- Room:22a, 23 Le
- Phone: +49 40 42 89 89-0
- Mail: dorothee.halbrock@hfbk-hamburg.de
Web:
- UVM
- Hallo: e.V.
Dorothee Halbrock's main interest lies in creating supportive self-organised structures, queer alliances and enabling spaces. Halbrock likes weaving networks, both locally and internationally. Among other things, they co-founded Hallo: e.V. in Hamburg and the Floating University in Berlin, the aim of which is to create permanent, collaborative spatial concepts. Within this framework, they launched an experimental neighbourhood office (Schaltzentrale), a space-creating festival (Hallo: Festspiele) and Floating e.V., among others.
After one of Hallo:'s spaces - a former power station - was lost to an investor at the beginning of 2023 after eight years of work on site, Halbrock is focussing even more strongly on questions of land policy. Together with colleagues, they are now looking for other implementation strategies for the WERK concept, which was developed over the years specifically for the power station as a permanent spatial concept for the common good. Right next to the power plant, another common good co-initiated by them is growing: PARKS, a community-developed open space.
Halbrock realises networking and research work around urban practice through long-term collaborations with partners from Burkina Faso, Portugal and France, as well as being a member of ab__ (London) or Urbane Praxis Berlin e.V. and is active as a lecturer (HCU, UdK Berlin, among others) and advisory board or jury member (e.g. BKM Hamburg). From October 2024, Halbrock will take over the guest professorship for Social Design at the HfbK Hamburg with a focus on queer commons.
Halbrock also often produces texts collaboratively, publishing with Julia Jost, Julia Lerch- Zajączkowska, Johanna Padge, Nuriye Tohermes and Renée Tribble at Jovis or Turia & Kant, among others.
Dorothee Halbrock takes care of several spaces, children and other kin. In the sense of careful networking and care, some of these activities can be described as curating. In addition to working on long-term projects, symposia such as ‚Alles ist schon da - performinung urban curating now’ or artistic research on queer commons are created.
With UVM, a studio for critical spatial production and process design, founded in 2023, Halbrock combines the different fields of interest in order to bring together the expertise and continue the interface work in a solidary working group.