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Methods of exposure and vulnerability in order to generate a completely “other” knowledge have a certain tradition in the history of artistic research. Not only since the experiments of the surrealist activist groups before the Second World War. More recently, a number of scientific approaches, many of them linked to the materialist turn, have also put an emphasis on exposure and vulnerability as a method for rethinking values in the context of the climate/human crisis, for example. From 2022 to 2023, the Chair of Visual Arts at the Institute of Architecture (IfA) at the TU Berlin has organised a series of post-Corona seminars, providing students with equipment and funds for sustainable travel to experiment within this conceptual framework. Using film as the main medium of artistic research, the students’ task was to encounter the specifics of a chosen site through filmic means and collaborative exposure. The place, with its material agencies, would become the main protagonist of a very real dialogue that would shape a short film. The content of the paper/lecture at AMPS will be to look at examples of the outcome, process and experience behind filming the places in relation to a diverse understanding of exposure and vulnerability as a method of artistic research. This paper fits thematically best within the panel: Urban Futures & Community Pasts. Politics, People & Place. The seminar series entitled: Eigensinnige Orte//Stubborn Places was funded by the Stiftung innovative Lehre in Hochschulen (StiL) as well as a publication edited by Stefanie Bürkle, Alex Gross and Katrin Wegemann, published by Kettler in 2023.