Free Radicals: Eine Krise bekommen

The article “Eine Krise bekommen” documents the seminar “Eine Krise bekommen: Design und Psychische Gesundheit” (2021), which I developed and organized together with, and as part of, the collective Eine Krise bekommen. The seminar took place within the Free Radicals program at the Floating University — an initiative for teacherless, self-organized student groups exploring their own interests and conducting research beyond institutional walls. Through an open call, diverse groups came together to investigate interdisciplinary practices and pressing questions of our time: ecological concerns, ways of living, political and social engagement, and care for ourselves and our surroundings. The resulting projects ranged from one-day interventions to long-term explorations, imagined rituals, and collective mud-building actions — all developed in dialogue with the site, its inhabitants, and its neighbors. The outcomes were gathered in the Free Radical Newspaper, a multilayered documentation of (almost) 18 collectives, forming a messy, joyful conversation about our practices, struggles, and hopes — and an invitation to think, wander, and wonder with us.