Are You a Model?

Anna-Maria Meister is an architect, historian, and professor of architecture theory at KIT Karlsruhe, as well as co-director of the saai archive and leader of the Lise Meitner Research Group at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI) - Max Planck Institute. Meister works at the intersection of the histories of architecture, science, and technology, focusing on the interdependencies of processes of design with the design of processes with an emphasis on their political, social, and aesthetic consequences. She is co-curator of the international research project "Radical Pedagogies" and co-editor of the book of the same name (2022).

Teresa Fankhänel is an associate curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and editor-in-chief of the Architectural Exhibition Review . She was a curatorial assistant for the exhibition "The Architectural Model" (DAM, 2012) and has published two books on models ( The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad (2021) and An Alphabet of Architectural Models (2021)).

Lisa Beisswanger is a historian of art and architecture focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her main topics of research include the history of performance art and its interfaces with architecture, as well as the educational architecture of the long 1960s. She is currently assistant professor at the University of Koblenz. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Chris Dähne researches the history and theory of architecture, media, and technology. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the LOEWE-Cluster Architectures of Order. Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowledge at Goethe University in Frankfurt and in the DFG project BAUdigital at TU Darmstadt. She recently published the book Utopia Computer. The "New" in Architecture? with Nathalie Bredella and Frederike Lausch.

Christiane Fülscher is professor