VOYAGES

A Working Concept

What intellectual forms become possible when exchange is cultivated through recurring voyages? Reconstructing voyages allows us to identify environments, rhythms, conversations, and practices that give rise to new research. Each new voyage extends a long-term experiment in cultivating the conditions under which ideas emerge.

Background

Meetings over the past decade between Arthur Mason and Christian Ritter have gradually become something more than individual trips. Each journey generates conversations, observations, photographs, notebooks, readings, and, from time to time, research ideas that later develop into larger projects. Until now, these materials have remained scattered across computers, notebooks, cameras, email exchanges, and memory. The upcoming Berlin–Poznań becomes the first VOYAGE undertaken with the recognition that the previous journeys constitute an intellectual practice. Rather than treating each trip as an isolated event, Berlin–Poznań reconstructs them as parts of continuing research practice. 

VOYAGES is a practice of intellectual life in motion, reconstructing circumstances through which ideas develop and provides a framework for extending that practice into the future.

Practice of Exchange

VOYAGE 6 – Poznań – Berlin – Prerow (2026)

VOYAGE 5 – Le Havre (2025)

VOYAGE 4 – Rotterdam – Zeeland (2022)

VOYAGE 3 – Berkeley (2019)

VOYAGE 2 – Trondheim (2018)

VOYAGE 1 – Stavanger (2017)

Repository

o Photographs, notebooks and field notes

o Travel itineraries, receipts, tickets, and vouchers

o Maps, reading lists, sketches

o Recurring themes, memorable walks, meals and cafés

o Architectures and interiors

o Correspondence before and after the journey

o Unfinished questions, ideas, concepts

o Publications, lectures, grants, or projects traced back to those conversations

VOYAGE 6 (Poznań–Berlin, July 2026) inaugurates the VOYAGES repository. Supported by Project Establishment Funds from the Research Council of Norway for the Affective Infrastructure for Extractive Futures project, it marks the first occasion on which earlier voyages are reconstructed as a continuing practice of intellectual exchange.