UdK-TORCH seed funded projects, 2025-26

We are delighted to announce the projects funded as part of the UdK-TORCH partnership.

The University of Oxford and the Berlin University of the Arts invited researchers, artists and designers to participate in the Oxford–UdK Berlin Partnership in Arts and Humanities. The partnership is an effort to strengthen the ties both between the two institutions and between artistic and academic disciplines, and recently offered seed funding to facilitate interdisciplinary research projects.

We're pleased to announce the awarded projects below.


Was gibt’s da zu lachen ? / A Comic Twist on Memory?
Oxford: Dr Katharina Friege
Berlin: Prof. Enrico Stolzenburg

Can the fake help us identify the real?
Oxford: Prof. Patricia Kingori
Berlin: Prof. Christiane Kühl

Building Visions: Theology and Architecture in Deep Time
Oxford: Dr. Tim Middleton
Berlin: Prof. Dr. Susanne Hauser

Forms of Attention: Mapping the everyday in Oxford and Berlin
Oxford: Prof. Patrick McGuinness
Berlin: Prof. Dr. Dirk Hohnsträter

Dwelling across scales
Oxford: Prof. Alan Grafen
Berlin: Prof. Timothée Ingen-Housz

Dropping In and Out
Oxford: Dr. Jessica Goodman
Berlin: Prof. Mathilde ter Hejne

Intersectional Bias in AI: Composing Cyborgs – Per/Forming Critique
Oxford: Prof. Christine Gerrard
Berlin: Prof. Gesche Joost