Felix Remter

Vita
Felix Remter studied social and cultural anthropology, social sciences and intercultural communication in 2009 - 2015 at LMU Munich (Magister Artium). Currently he is working at the Munich Centre for Technology in Society (MCTS) co-implementing the project 100Places:M as part of the centre for urban ecology and climate adaptation (ZSK) at TU Munich. Into this work he brings further experiences from studying landscape architecture in 2003 - 2006 at TU Munich and Leibnitz Universität Hannover and from fieldwork in human bee relations in Germany, Switzerland, Wales and Bashkortostan.

Research Priorities

  • More Than Human Anthropology
  • STS & Urban/Ecological Design
  • Migration, Identity and Discourse
  • Mixed Media Ethnography

Teaching

  • WS 17/18: Deign in Crisis: Sensing like an Animal. Mastercourse (12ECTS) in Architecture (IUP TUM). Together with Ignacio Farías and Tomás Sanchez-Criado. See process documentation and the results of the Course
  • SS 2017: Sensory methods in landscape architecture. Integration to Mastercourse (3ECTS) at (LAO TUM)
  • 2009 – 2017: Teaching techniques of visual anthropology at the Institute for Social and Cultural Antropology, LMU Munich, Germany.
  • Tutor for anthropology of kinship and visual anthropology

Membership 

  • EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists (Network HOLB – Humans and other living beings)

Selected Work Experiences

  • 2015 – today: Co-founder of and partner in the media production company primate visions.
  • 2006 – today: Assistant Director, Director of Photography and post production in awarded feature films.
  • 2012 – 2014 Founder and manager of Merula Theater Company in Prizren, Kosova. Project coordinator for Xchange-Perspectives e.V.

Conference papers

  • 2019: Transmedial evocation for researching human honeybee intra-actions. At the Conference: Multispecies storytelling in intermedial practices. Linneaus University, Växjö, Sweden.
  • 2018: ‘Apoidean Urbanization and the Heat Island’. At the Workshop: Ecologizing Urban Ontologies. TU Munich, Germany.
  • 2018: Ontological Politics & Resonance Devices in the Human Honeybee Crisis. At the 5th CLAS-Forschungskolloquium, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität. Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2018: Zur Partizipation nicht-menschlicher Stadtakteure. At the Conference: Urbane Naturen-Kulturen entwerfen. TU Munich, Germany.
  • 2018: Beetrees: Citizen science and/as counter knowledge. At the Workshop: Anthropocene and Citizen Science: Evidence Gained through the “Opening-up” of Academic Knowledge Production? Deutsches Museum, München
  • 2017: Urban climate adaptation and „green infrastructures“ in a more-than-human scale. At the Workshop: Circling the Square – re-desining natures-cultures in a changing urban climate. TU Munich, Germany. EASST-Review
  • 2017: The bee multiple, assisted perception and resonance. At the conference: Bee in transition? On New Attentions for Bees and Beekeeping in Social Anthropology. Zürich, Switzerland.
  • 2017: with Miriam Remter: Thick participation in the material entanglements of honeybees and their keepers. At the Symposium: Connecting Materialities/Material Connectivities. Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU Munich, Germany.
  • 2016: Worker Bees, Parasites and the human fear of the feral. At: EASA Conference 2016: Anthropological legacies and human futures. Milano, Italy.
  • 2016: with Miriam Remter: Sensory experience in a more-than-human world – fragments from audiovisual practice. At the Conference: Sight meets Sound. Critical media practice and the ethnographic project. Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft (IBZ), Munich, Germany.
  • 2015: Ontologies of Honeybees belonging. At the Symposium: BUZZ – Parasitic Ecologies. Im Turm T66, Freiburg, Germany.