What’s Cooking?
#4 Helen Flemming and Simay Peters with Lena Olvedi
Why are women highly engaged in architecture and activism, yet often less visible? Helen Fleming, Simay Peters and Lena Olvedi discuss feminism, rethinking spaces and how bold ideas can transform the built environment.
Helen Flemming and Simay Peters. © Architects for Future, Ortsgruppe Berlin / Lena Olvedi. © Missoir
Date: Wed., 17.06.2026, 19:00
Place: Aedes Café, Christinenstr. 18–19, 10119 Berlin
The event will take place in English. Admission is free. Registration is not required.
Introduction
Helen Fleming and Simay Peters are Berlin-based architects, who are also involved with Architects for Future in rooting for a more just building transition.
Their main topics are feminism in architecture and activism, about which they created an exhibition that was first displayed last year at Architektur Galerie Berlin during the WIA Festival. With the exhibition, they aim to highlight the discrepancy between engagement and visibility of women in architecture and activism and want to encourage reflection. Why is this the case? What structural, societal, or historical mechanisms lie behind it? And above all: How can we change this?
Their guest is Lena Olvedi, the inventor, founder, CEO and visionary behind Missoir – an innovative, waterless urinal designed specifically for women. This Berlin-based, female-founded startup is dedicated to addressing a stigmatised and taboo topic, and to revolutionising the sanitary industry.
Programme
Welcome
Dan Dorocic, Aedes, Berlin
Presentations
Helen Fleming and Simay Peters, Architects, Architects for Future, Berlin
Lena Olvedi, Inventor / Founder, CEO, Missoir, Berlin
Discussion and get-together
About What’s Cooking
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.
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.
