Dorothea Douglas M.A.
Dorothea Douglas studied Art and Visual History in Berlin and Basel. She joined the team at Organizing Architectures from Humboldt University in Berlin where she worked at both the chair for the History and Theory of Form and the Forschungsstelle “Das Technische Bild”. Coming from critical image studies, Douglas is particularly interested in the historic and cultural contingencies of sight and perception. In her Pre-Doc project at Organizing Architectures, she will be examining the peculiarity of rounded staircases in lower courts designed by the Resort Justitzbautzen within the Prussian Ministry of Public Works. Linking these spaces to concurrent turn of the century German Art History’s preoccupation with rhythm as an element of sensory aesthetics, the project questions their role in forging a novel legal subject through the kinetic experience of space.
In addition to her work at the RTG Dorothea is a member of the Arbeitskreis Ästhetik und Medienkultur at the Institute for Social Research as well as the GRADE Initiative Ästhetik demokratischer Lebensformen at Goethe University Frankfurt. Most recently she served as Project Coordinator at the 12. Berlin Biennial’s Curators Workshop.