Sommersemester 2026 /Wintersemester 2026/27

• VS - Project Work I: Thematic and Methodical Preparation
• LK - Project Work I: Thematic and Methodical Preparation
• LFP - Project Work II: Empirical Research and Data Analysis

Textile Geographies and Natural Dyes

The two-semester student project explores the politics of textiles and natural colors, focusing on engagements with indigo and other natural dyes as contemporary practices of resistance to fascism, mass production, and extractive fashion systems. Centring Berlin as a key site of experimentation, activism, and artistic practice, the project examines how plants, pigments, and textile techniques are mobilized today within slow fashion, ecological movements, and political art. It engages with histories and revivals of so-called “orphan plants” such as indigo, woad, madder, linen, cotton,… not as nostalgic returns, but as active strategies to challenge fast fashion, industrial standardisation, and what is economically and agri-culturally considered ‘useful’.

Wintersemester 2024/25

• HS- Introduction to Geographies of Global Inequalities
• GP - Theorie und Praxis anthropogeographischer Methoden

Sommersemester 2024

• PjS - Projektbezogenes Arbeiten: Leben mit „invasiven Arten“ in Berlin
• LFP - Projektbezogenes Arbeiten 

Madlen Hornung’s research is situated in the field of human–environment relations and agricultural geographies, intersecting with mobilities, global health, and multispecies justice. Grounded in Science and Technology Studies, she is currently engaging with arts-based ecological research practices.

She is teaching in the international Master’s programme “Geographies of Global Inequalities” and is part of DFG-project: “SOUND - Socio-ecologic investigation of orthobunyaviruses as neglected causes of disease in Africa” 

2021-2022

DFG-project “Uneven Geographies of Vaccine Manufacturing in the Global South” https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/geog/fachrichtungen/anthrogeog/zelf/news/DFG.html

More than Meat. Lively Relations and the Politics of Valuing Sheep and Goats in Ethiopia (PhD thesis, defended in December 2023)

Her dissertation research was situated within the landscape of livestock trading in Ethiopia. Sheep and goats are an important resource for the vision of an “Ethiopian Renaissance” and, at the same time, companions in many other (future) histories. Focusing on diverse slaughtering practices, she followed livestock across interconnected spaces—between markets and streets, into homes, breeding facilities, leather factories, and government documents. Her research connects and juxtaposes what is cared for in human–livestock futures.

• Wenzl, C., Werner, C., Molitor, K., Hornung, M., Rominger, S. & F. Faller (2019): Soziale Praktiken in der Forschungspraxis - empirisch forschen mit Schatzkis site ontology. In: Schäfer, E. u. J. Everts (Hrsg): Praktiken und Raum. Humangeographie nach dem Practice Turn. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, S. 341-360. 
• Hornung, M. (2015): Von Wegmarken und Grenzartist*innen: Einblicke in translokale Marriagescapes. In: Feministische Georundmail 64. S. 24 – 27. http://ak-geographie-geschlecht.org/rundmail/
• Hornung, M. & S. A. Peth (2014): Alltag im Hier und Dort - Heiratsmigration und translokale Verflechtungen zwischen Thailand und Deutschland, in Südostasien, 4.