Research Associate (m/f/d)

10 May 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

THE UNIVERSITÄT DER KÜNSTE BERLIN

Research Field

Architecture
History

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)
Established Researcher (R3)

Country

Germany

Application Deadline

9 Jun 2024 - 00:00 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Other

Job Status

Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) is one of the world's leading art universities with a long tradition. It is an important partner in Berlin’s network of culture, art and science and artistic activities in Berlin. More than 200 professors, around 250 employees in the arts and sciences, and around 300 employees in administration, libraries, service and technology work at the UdK Berlin. More than 4,000 students (30 % of them international) are enrolled in over 70 degree programmes at the four colleges of Fine Arts/Architecture, Media and Design/Music, and Performing Arts, as well as at the Central Institute for Further Education (ZIW), the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) and the Jazz Institute Berlin (JIB). The UdK Berlin offers teacher education programmes in the subjects of Fine Arts, Music and Theatre/Performing Arts. The UdK Berlin is one of the few art colleges in Germany with the right to confer doctorates and post-doctoral qualifications.

Through the diverse activities of its members, the institution contributes to a culture of exchange with Berlin’s civil society and the global audience that is both artistically and academically guided. Its institutional understanding of a relevant practice within the arts and sciences draws upon a dialogue with the social, political, technological and artistic challenges of the 21st century.

The UdK Berlin, as part of the NOMIS Foundation-funded research project "Site Complexes. Models of Responsive Practices for the 21th Century/Ortskomplexe. Modelle responsiven Handelns für das 21. Jahrhundert", based at the Institute for Art History, Art Theory and Aesthetics (College of Fine Arts) and at the Institute for History and Theory of Design (College of Architecture, Media and Design), is seeking to appoint a:

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (m/f/d)

– Salary group 13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen –
Full-time, fixed-term employment ending 31 May 2026

Position available from: 1 June 2024

Reference number: 2/1992/24

The project, conducted in collaboration with the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna, where a further vacancy for a post-doctoral position is open, focuses on works of art and architectural designs and how their analysis in relation to specific sites gives rise to visions for the future. The phenomena under discussion draw the consequences of the changed understanding of the relationship between space, nature, technology, economy and society, which crystallized in the late 20th century and plays a decisive role in current debates on globalisation and the climate crisis. The focus is therefore on positions in art and architecture that depart programmatically from modernist utopian thinking and instead develop site-specific work methods, which we see as models of responsive practices. The project deals with approaches that use the natural, technical, economic and social conditions and limitations of artistic and architectural processes as resources for positive transformation, instead of aiming to overcome them with technical solutions or rethink them entirely; approaches that take what already exists into account instead of removing it or abandoning it for a new set-up. These practices are based on the understanding that their respective sites are a complex of locally effective, but often globally far-reaching and variously interdependent (cultural, social, economic, ecological) factors. 

The research project will examine the development of site-specific practices in art and architecture since the 1970s in case studies, the emphasis being placed on artistic and architectural methods and techniques in order to identify models of responsive practice with specific (social, political, ecological) impact. A particular focus will be placed on the differences and interferences between the two classic spatial arts, consistently function-oriented architecture and the often emphatically experimental visual arts. The focus of the Berlin sub-project will be on architecture, that of the Vienna sub-project on the visual arts.

Duties the open position offers:

• academic work on a case study  
• to contribute to the methodological and theoretical development of the project, which is intended to form the basis for a possible further project phase after 31 Mai 2026, during which the advertised position may be continued. 

Requirements:

• a university degree (Master) in a discipline relevant to the questions of the project, preferably architecture or art history 
• a doctoral degree 
• an in-depth interest in architectural and art history and theory with a focus on the second half of the 20th century
• a high motivation for interdisciplinary cooperation and teamwork
• a willingness to participate actively in the organisation of events (conferences, workshops, seminars)
• the submission of a meaningful outline of the research to be conducted under the project
• very good English language skills and at least a basic knowledge of the German language

What we offer:

• an interesting, varied academic and artistic environment providing access to various artistic events of all disciplines
• the possibility of further education and training
• an additional pension scheme
• flexible working hours
• occupational health management
• good public transport connections to the workplace and a discounted ticket for public transport (VBB job ticket)
• international staff exchange

UdK Berlin is committed to being a non-discriminatory learning, teaching and working environment of equal opportunity and is working towards removing structural barriers (such as, for example, physical, language, racial, age-related, gender-specific, heteronormative and other barriers). It is striving to increase the proportion of women on its staff by recruiting and promoting qualified women, especially in executive positions and in areas in which they are underrepresented, and places particular emphasis on an intersectional approach. UdK Berlin expressly invites qualified candidates with a history of migration, black people and/or people of colour to apply. Equally qualified applicants with a recognised severe disability receive preferential consideration. If you have a severe disability, please mention it in your application. 

Please submit your written application (CV, certificates, list of publications if applicable) along with the reference number by no later than 9 June 2024 by postal mail to Universität der Künste Berlin – ZSD 1 –, Postfach 12 05 44, 10595 Berlin; parcels should be sent to the address: Universität der Künste Berlin – ZSD 1 –, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin. 

Please also send your application additionally in digital form (summarised in a PDF, max. 3 MB) to: [email protected]  and [email protected] . By submitting an application, you consent to your data being processed and stored electronically.

Please contact Prof. Dr. Hauser (hauser @udk-berlin.de ) or Prof. Dr. Neuner ([email protected] ) for any further information you may require.

For cost reasons, application documents can only be returned if a sufficiently stamped return envelope is enclosed.

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Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

THE UNIVERSITÄT DER KÜNSTE BERLIN

Country

Germany

City

Berlin (DE)

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Where to apply

Website

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/372715/research-associate-…

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Berlin (DE)

STATUS: EXPIRED