Task

The transformation ‘from solid to liquid modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting… (where) social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions… In liquid modernity the individual must act… under conditions of endemic uncertainty.
– Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Liquid Modernity’, Cambridge 2000.

Berlin’s urban setting is seen as an open field where relationships amongst communities can be understood as a continuous process. Adopting four distinct media, Students and professors from UEM are developing proposals for urban reconfiguration along the River Spree in the socio-economically charged context of Berlin’s Kreuzberg. The space to be transformed is the area between Wiener Str., Glogauer Str. and Paul-Lincke Ufer, on the corner of Kreuzberg , overlooking the Landeswehrkanal.

Students: Alvaro Lopez Rodriguez, Alejandra Valera Martínez, Huberto Aldaz, Paloma Hendel, Rocio Romo Torres, Fabiola Marroyo, María Teresa Pinilla Mora, Marta Torrecillas, Iván Guerrero Jiménez, Marina Rodriguez Sotoca, Carlos Martínez Pérez, Marta Gutierrez, Nuria Romo Torres, Victor Amengual, David Salcedo, Ruben Garcia de Valle, Pilar Santorroman

Task

Urban Reflections
Urban Activation Kit
Sewing the City

Studio Coordinators

Staff: Begoña Diaz-Urgorri, Jose L. Esteban, Angel L. Fernandez, Concha Lapayese, Juan J. Mateos, Beatriz Matos, Fermin Vazquez

Guest Critics: Mathias Sauerbruch, David Chipperfield, Frank Barkow, Lukas Feireiss, Fernando Menis, Enrique Sobejano, Fuensanta Nieto, Carsten Joost, Nancy Couling, Paola Alfaro, Takis Sgouros, Claus Käpplinger, Nikolaus Bernau

Special Thanks: E. Alvarez-Sala Gomez-Morán, Itziar Taboada, Raul Gomez Valverde, Pablo Puyol