Eric Ellingsen

Eric Ellingsen is co-directing the Institut für Raumexperimente. Co- directing involves teaching, curating, moderating, critiquing, and administrating. It means helping to choreograph a critically precise field of constantly changing spatiotemporal details.

Eric established Species of Space in 2009 as a platform through which art, architecture, writing and performance can converge through spatial practices. Education means the world to him. Eric has master’s degrees in Architecture, and Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and in Classical Philosophy from St. John's College. Before moving to Berlin, Eric taught architecture and landscape architecture full time (studios, history, and theory) at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he also helped start a Masters of Landscape Architecture program, and served as its assistant director. He has taught part time at the University of Toronto and assisted a team of architects surveying and drafting finds and features on an active archaeological dig in Aphrodisias, Turkey. He has also worked as a research assistant for Cecil Balmond, and freelanced shortly at Field Operations.

The content of Eric’s teaching centers on the philosophy of pre-and post human nature and ecology, theory of models, the public part of space, art everything, and experiencing experiments. He publishes creative and critical writing regularly, and gives performance/lectures (Serpentine Pavilion, Palais de Tokyo, WE LIVE HERE…). He was an editor of MODELS 306090, and has a book coming out soon called Phantom Bilder. Currently, some of his long-term projects involve collaborations with a retired police sketch artist (Phantom Bilder), a Turkish shoe cobbler, translators, a sound engineer, a dance choreographer, an artist and a sign language instructor, and a food systems planner. He sometimes says the word heart over and over and over.

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