What’s Cooking?
#5 Architect’s Union x Berlin Tenants’ Union
How can we create a fairer, more affordable Berlin? Bringing together the Architect’s Union and the Berlin Tenants’ Union, this conversation explores how collective action can connect labour, housing and urban justice.
© Architect’s Union / Berlin Tenants’ Union
Date: Tue., 14.07.2026, 19:00
Place: Aedes Café, Christinenstr. 18–19, 10119 Berlin
The event will take place in English and German. Admission is free. Registration is not required.
Introduction
The guests of this edition are two grassroots organisations committed to advancing social justice in the city.
The Architect’s Union (Architekt:innengewerkschaft) is a collective advocating for fair pay, better working conditions and greater collective agency within the field of architecture. By challenging exploitative labour practices, it promotes a profession that is socially just, politically engaged and publicly accountable.
Joining them is the Berlin Tenants’ Union (Mieter:innengewerkschaft Berlin), which supports tenants in organising collectively against rising rents, displacement and abusive landlord practices. Through neighbourhood groups, legal support and collective action, it advocates for housing as a social right and for greater democratic participation in shaping the city.
Programme
Welcome
Dan Dorocic, Aedes, Berlin
Presentations
Architects Union, Berlin (in English)
Berlin Tenants’ Union (in German)
Discussion and get-together (in English)
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.
