Katrin Singer

Katrin’s geographical work is inspired by theoretical considerations such as intersectional feminism, critical cartography, political ecology, and post-, indigenous and decolonial theories. Using a spectrum of artistic, narrative, and cartographic methods (C/artography), she follows ethnographic traces and land-based research to explore forms of socio-ecological relationalities in unequal power relations. My favorite way to do this is along rivers and with young people on the Río Auqui (Peru) and the Tideelbe (Germany), or in teaching exchanges with students.

In addition, Katrin is in charge of the institute’s map collection. If you would like to browse here or are looking for a specific map, don’t hesitate to contact her. She recently published the anthology “Artographies” (Open Access) together with Katharina Schmidt and Martina Neuburger. The result of a long, creative and exciting process with many inspiring authors.

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Since 2020

• PostDoc at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. Working Group AG KGGU – Arbeitsgruppe “Kritische Geographien Globaler Ungleichheiten” (Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities)

2017-2020

• Research Associate & Doctoral Scholar, Title: Confluencing Worlds. Sketches on the Coloniality of Childhood, Nature and Research in the Callejón de Huaylas, Peru.

2012-2016

• Project collaborator in the DFG/FWF project “Water demand and water availability from glacial melt in tropical Callejón de Huaylas, Peru”, University of Hamburg, Germany.

2011-2012

• Lectureship at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck “Introduction to scientific work”.
• Collaborator in the project “FremdTRaumA – Das lateinamerikanische Fremde im europäischen Eigenen” at the Leopold Franzens-University-Innsbruck.

2008 – 2011

• Master’s degree in Global Change – Regional Sustainability at the Institute of Geography, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria.
• Master’s thesis: Seeking Intermediate Spaces: Post/Colonial Negotiations of Indigeneities in the Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara/Mexico.

2008

• Bachelor studies in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Institute of Geography, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria.

2007

• Academic year at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina as part of the study of geography at the University of Tübingen (Academic Exchange).

2003 – 2008

• Diploma studies “Geography of Developing Countries [sic!]” at the Department of Geography of the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (with the subsidiary subjects Political Science & Geology).

Reviews: Sustainability Science, Political Ecology, Geographica Helvetica, Geographische Zeitschrift

Rebonding Worldings. Multiepisteme Reconfigurations to Overcome Ontological Boundaries of Being and Caring between Humans and Nature through Art, Communities and Science.
Katrin Singer (PI); Helene Heuer & in collaboration with Cornelia Funke
Time Period: 2021-2022
University of Hamburg, Ideen- und Risikofonds (Ideas and Risk Fund), Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern (Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments)

Highlands – Inklusive nachhaltige Entwicklung in Hochlandregionen (Highlands – Inclusive Sustainable Development in Highland Regions)
Oliver Bender; Fernando Ruiz Peyré (IFG Innsbruck); Martina Neuburger; Tobias Schmitt; Jana Lüdemann & Katrin Singer
Time Period: 2020-2025
EU Horizon 2020
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Geografisch post/kolonial (Geographically post/colonial). How the World is Created from Maps and Images
Martina Neuburger (PI); Corinna Humuza; Sonja Kanemaki; Katrin Singer; Carsten Gräbel & Anna-Maria Woszczyk
Time Period: 2018-Ongoing
partly anniversary fund of the University of Hamburg.
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Wasserbedarf und Wasserverfügbarkeit aus Gletscherschmelze im tropischen Callejón de Huaylas, Peru – Eine gemeinsame Fallstudie von Humangeographie und Hydroglaziologie (Water Demand and Availability from Glacial Melt in Tropical Callejón de Huaylas, Peru – A Joint Case Study of Human Geography and Hydroglaciology)
Martina Neuburger (PI); Georg Kaser (PI) (University of Innsbruck); Katrin Singer; Jana Lüdemann; Leona Faulstich & Wolfgang Gurgiser
Time Period: 2012-2014
DFG; FWF
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FremdTRaumA – Das lateinamerikanische Fremde im europäischen Eigenen (Foreign Trauma – The Latin American Foreign in the European Own).
Martina Neuburger (PI) Katrin Singer Silke Greth
Time Period: 2010-2011
University of Innsbruck, Promotion of Young Researchers

2023

• Artographies: methodical-artistic approaches to space. Book presentation/vernissage together with Katrin Singer and Martina Neuburger at DKG ’23 in Frankfurt, 22.09.2023
• Challenging the Brick Walls: teaching critical of racism and postcolonialism in neoliberal university structures. Lecture with Martina Neuburger at DKG ’23 in Frankfurt, 21.09.2023.
• Cajas de sombras y teatro de sombras al encuentro de la narración indígena quechuahablante. Workshop with Martina Neuburger at UNASAM, Huaraz, 24.08.2023.
• De/colonial ecologies of water – When indigenous, feminist, and creative-art world-productions converge. Presentation at the Geoscience Colloquium of the University of Bayreuth, 127.06.2023.
• Feminist geographies: visual≈creative≈postcolonial. Lecture together with Katharina Schmidt at the Geoscientific Colloquium of the TU Dresden, 14.06.2023.
• Countermaps from the underground. Mapping workshop with the collective Karattack. Asphalt Blasting Festival Hamburg, 6.05.2023.
• The Elbe in the cinema box. A mapping trick film workshop together with Frieda Thoms, Sonja Kanemaki & Malina Niemann, 16 & 17.05.2023.
• Globalized Nature, Ecology, and the Future City: Learning from Berlin. Paneltalk at the British Embassy organized by HIAS, 15.06.2023.
• Postcolonial geographies in the German-speaking context – a mapping attempt.
  Workshop of the working group AG KGGU at the conference Neue Kulturgeographie 2023 in Halle, 28.01.2023.
• River walk – an exploration of creative ecologies of water together with Rebekka Kanesu at the New Cultural Geography 2023 conference, Jan. 28, 2023, Halle. Input audios to the river walk can be provided on request on your own river walk to
• be heard.
• Geocinema: “Being Compost” with Severin Halder, Jan. 19, 2023.
• K/artographic methods: in search of ‘new’ approaches to multiepistemic spatial productions. Lecture in the context of “GeoDiscourses”, Institute of Geography Innsbruck, 17.01.2023, University of Innsbruck.

2022

• Overcoming adultism and adult-specific privilege in arts education. Workshop in collaboration with Christopher Nixon for the “Education & Outreach” department of the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
• Paneltalk at the Book Launch Event I “Natura Urbana” by Matthew Gandy, 7. 4.2022, Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study e.V. (HIAS).
• About the art of de/constructing maps. Workshop together with Katharina Schmidt in the context of the conference “Critical Mapping”, 29.4.-1.5. 2022, University of Halle.
• oUtSiDe ThE bOxEs: C/artographic Methods. Digital creative-artistic workshop as part of the mLAB Symposium – Other Cartographies, 7-8.4.2022, University of Bern.
• Multiepistemic ver/learning with and through water spirits. A letter about being, knowledge and relationality in not only but also addressed to Ichick Ollqu. Presentation at the Augsburg Research Workshop “the plurality of political ecology”, 06-07.05.2022, University of Augsburg.
• Creative studio “Artographies” together with Katharina Schmidt and Martina Neuburger. Workshop in the context of the book publication “Artography”, 20-21.5.2022, University of Hamburg.
• Mapping the Global Intimate: c/artographies for an entangled world together with Katharina Schmidt and Caro Schurr., 15-17.6.2022, digital workshop at the Feminist Geography Conference Boulder.

2021

• Other/wise C/artographies. Lecture together with Katharina Schmidt at the Online Leipzig Geographic Colloquium on ‘Critical Mapping’, 7.12.2021, University of Leipzig.
• Cartographies of positionality. Lecture together with Katharina Schmidt and Corinna Humuza at the online conference “Das postkoloniale Museum”, 13-16.06.2021, Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg.
• On the contaminated Geographies of Europe/Germany. Conference Paper together with Katrin Singer, Emma Monama & Martina Neuburger at the conference “Rethinking ‘Postcolonial’ Europe: Moving Identities, Changing Subjectivities” 10-12. 02. 2021, Justus Liebig University, Giessen.

2020

• “Questioning own mapping practices: academic feminist communities, postionality and historical legacies”. Input together with Martina Neuburger & Katharina Schmidt at the event “Atlas in a day. Community” of the group Guerilla Cartography.

2018

• “Looking Back to Look Forward: On the Postcolonial Presence of Contemporary Geographies.” Lecture together with Katharina Schmidt & Tobias Schmitt in the context of the event series of the Frankfurt Geographical Society: “Wissen. Power. Space. Stories of Geography”.

2016

• “The city as an integration machine under pressure? Current Conditions of Living Together in the City.” Lecture with Anne Vogelpohl at the event “Qualität vor Ort: Kindertagesbetreuung in der internationalen Stadtgesellschaf”, Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg.

2015

• P/Arts of knowledge systems on nature Reflections on creative methodology using the example of field research in the Cordillera Blanca/Peru. Presentation at the Arbeitskreis Landschaftsforschung, University of Hamburg.
• Tenemos mucho que decir, simplemente nadie escucha”- luchando por el (re)conocimento de lxs niñxs. Presentation at the conference “Lucha por la Tierra”, Lima.
• Postcoloial sketches on an Andean notion of nature in the plural. Presentation at the DKG ‘2015 in Berlin.

2014

• “P/Arts of knowledge systems on nature – a feminist inquiry.” Paper presented at the AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
• Proyectos científicos en discución – una reflexión crítica. Lecture at AK Lateinamerika with Leonel Alexander Menacho Lopéz, University of Bayreuth.
• Appropriation of spaces through visualization. Lecture together with Katharina Schmidt at the HGD Symposium and the symposium Visuelle Geographien (4), Flensburg.
• Looking for alternatives: Participatory approaches as a way to more resource fairness? Presentation together with Tobias Schmitt at the 1st Austrian Conference on International Resource Politics, Vienna.

(Complete CV can be sent upon request)

Teaching Insights:

Critical Mapping: Yuki-you. A flow-motion film of Critical Mapping. A production of the kartattack collective.

Critical cartography: Atlas 2020.

Creative-Artistic Methods: Student Publications by Anne Beetz, Helene Heuer, Max Jordan, and Alexandra Semenova in the anthology Artographies.

…to be continued…