What’s Cooking?
#3 Bika Rebek (Some Place Studio) with Shalini Vimal
What’s Cooking? brings together conversations and fresh perspectives from beyond the architectural status quo in an informal setting. The series explores space, design and new ways of thinking about cities.
Bika Rebek. © Kyle Knodell / Shalini Vimal. © Korbinian Kainz
Date: Tues., 05.05.2026, 18:30
Place: Aedes Café, Christinenstr. 18–19, 10119 Berlin
The event will take place in English. Admittance is free. Registration is not required.
Introduction
The format is conceived as a kitchen-style conversation — experimental, convivial and shared. What’s Cooking? brings together designers, architects, artists and practitioners from diverse professional and social contexts for short inputs, unexpected perspectives and open exchanges. Each event features one protagonist, who invites a guest from another discipline, sparking dialogue across architecture, design, science, culture and politics.
Bika Rebek, is a Berlin-based architect, educator and curator, and the founder and principal of the architecture firm Some Place Studio. Through her practice, she explores how technology, aesthetics and architectural processes can be rethought to generate social and environmental impact. Rebek has taught and lectured widely on architecture and technology. Her work includes collaborations with institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, and she co-curated the Slovenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2018.
Her guest, Shalini Vimal, is an ecological planner with a background in natural resource management and architecture. After a decade working on architectural and landscape projects in New York and California, she now focuses on revealing ecological processes across multiple scales. She combines design and construction expertise with skills in spatial data analysis, stakeholder engagement and environmental policy. Her recent work includes mapping coastal wetland carbon storage with the Global Climate Forum, advising on biodiversity and EU nature policy at adelphi and exploring rewilding and soil recovery on abandoned farmland in Europe.
Much of contemporary architecture is still designed and constructed without meaningful integration of ecological planning – often treated as an afterthought or addressed only to meet regulatory requirements. In this conversation, Bika Rebek and Shalini Vimal discuss points of friction between their disciplines while exploring strategies for more integrated approaches. Their award-winning proposal for the Tempelhofer Feld competition serves as a case study.
Programme
Welcome
Dan Dorocic, Aedes, Berlin
Presentations
Bika Rebek, Architect, Curator and Educator / Founder, Some Place Studio, Berlin
Shalini Vimal, Ecological Planner, Berlin
Discussion and get-together
