invisible grounds
architect. urban designer. author. visual researcher.
that go beyond the disciplinary framework of Architecture and Urban Design
and open up new perspectives and narratives upon spatial matters.
“invisible grounds” approaches space through a deep, open-ended, process-based, and interdisciplinary understanding.
It strives for an exploration, reading and writing of space and looks at its use and ways of transformation
as a subtle base to grasp what architectural thought and spatial practices are about.
By searching ways to go beyond “the material”, it puts forward a critical positioning and social perspective upon space
that makes the interdependency inbetween space and people graspable.
With the term “invisible” the immaterial and intangible aspects of space are addressed;
the tacit dimension, that only comes to forefront when observing the interaction in space.
The term “grounds” opens up a broader field, meaning not only a particular piece of territory or soil,
but a thematic foundation or background. That, what lies underneath, the reason or cause to act or to act together.
Dr. Riccarda Cappeller M.A. M.Sc. is an architect, urban designer, author and visual researcher,
working at the intersection of art and architecture, on the co-creation of urban knowledge and on non-fiction media about living spaces.
With a strong interest in methodological experiments, and artistic research on urban transformation,
her practice follows various traces in parallel – writing, filming, thinking, teaching, curating and theorizing.
// 2024 Doctoral Dissertation “Cooperative Architecture”, Leibniz Universität Hannover
// 2017 M.A. Visual Sociology, Goldsmiths University London
// 2015 M.Sc. Architecture at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 2011/12 ETSAM Madrid, 2013/14 UBA Buenos Aires
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