Spaces are transformed, and in turn they transform those who inhabit them. These spaces are not simply given, but generated through the multitude of relationships between human and non-human agents. As bodies move and gather within spaces, social distinctions and communities emerge, becoming stratified according to race, class and gender. Access to the "resources" present within spaces enables and shapes coexistence, and these resources are contested over. Their exploitation and use have been and continue to be accompanied by enslavement, labour migration and wars, resulting in complex "entangled histories" that continue to unfold in the present. The "material practices" of utilising and transforming the world are intertwined with imaginations of coexistence and concepts and discourses surrounding them.

The newly established „Humanities Hub“ "Transitory Spaces – Resources, Entangled Histories, Material Practices" brings together researchers from various faculties to reflect collectively on the politics and aesthetics of space in an era of a renaissance of geopolitical concepts.