Constructive Disobedience: An Experimental Methodology in Architecture

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Helga Blocksdorf is an architect who runs the architecture office Helga Blocksdorf / Architektur. In 2021 she was appointed as professor and head of the Institute for Construction at the TU Braunschweig. Prior to this she was a guest professor of constructive design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and worked as a research assistant in the team headed by Prof. Ute Frank at the TU Berlin from 2007 to 2012. She is a doctoral candidate at the Programme for Design-Based Doctorates (PEP). Matthias Ballestrem is an architect and Professor of Fundamentals of Architecture at the Technische Universität Dortmund. He was founding program director of the Bauhaus Earth Fellowship Program at Bauhaus Earth and co-managing director of Experimental. His is peer at the Programme for Design-Based Doctorates (PEP) and his research focuses on the methodologies of practice- and design-based research experimental design spatial perception and spatial complexity. Katharina Benjamin studied architecture at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She worked for Peter Zumthor at Atelier Zumthor in Haldenstein (CH) as project coordinator for the XIV. International Bauhaus-Colloquium at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and from 2019 to 2022 as research assistant at the Chair of Architectural Design and Construction I at TU Dresden. Since 2021 she is working as research assistant at the Institute for Construction at the TU Braunschweig. In 2017 she founded the digital architecture platform Kontextur.