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WHAT IS TERMS OF ASSEMBLY



We investigate how digital and physical public spaces are overlapping, in order to make them more democratic.

Terms of Assembly is a research-driven collective that explores how hybrid public spaces are shaped by commercialized platforms, gamified governance, algorithmic attention and cutified extraction - in order to reimagine them as more democratic.



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Natalya Bashnyak

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Lars Oschmann
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Otto Ostermann
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WHAT IS TERMS OF ASSEMBLY



Natalya Bashnyak
is a media digital designer and a researcher of visual arts theories based in Berlin. Her practice consists of the computational processing of imageries, game engine, 3D animations and generative AI with a particular interest in a theoretical approach to video, narrative, and movement. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art and Visual History, Italian
Language and Literature (Humboldt University of Berlin) as well as Philology - German and English language and literature (Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University) She is currently studying Design and Computation at UDK and TU Berlin.

Lars Oschmann is a spatial designer and social researcher based in Athens. His practice is focused on empowering users and inhabitants to become designers themselves. He embraces design as an invitation instead of a solution - with a special interest in making public spaces truely public. He graduated with a Master of Arts in Interior Architecture and Spatial Arts from Detmold School of Design last year.

Otto Ostermann is a spatial designer, media artists and researcher based in Berin. In his practice he deals with collective negotation of spatial ressources and social-geographic relations of gamified militarization. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Architecture (Detmold School of Design) and is currently studying Design and Computation at UDK and TU Berlin as well as Emergent Digital Media (class Hito Steyerl) at AdbK Munich.

Natalya, Lars and Otto merge their interests with the collective “Terms of Assembly” into a hybrid critical spatial practice.
       
       ToA - Terms of Assembly

A project by N. Bashnyak, L. Oschmann, O. Ostermann

2025