Digging as participation

How can participation be conceived as a physical and material practice in the post-digital age? This question was at the heart of Stella Flatten’s participation in the Urbanize! Festival 2025 in Vienna.
As part of a lecture at the University of Applied Arts, she presented her research “Digging. Digging as Method and Spatial Practice”. Digging is understood here as a spatial, collective and epistemic practice that uncovers hidden layers and generates new forms of knowledge and public sphere.

In parallel, an article was published in Dérive. Journal of Urban Research.

Link: derive.at/texte/graben-als-methode/

The trip was funded by the Leibniz Science Campus “Postdigital Participation”.