How can architecture and urban design shape open, vibrant and future-proof cities in an age of multiple crises? In collaboration with the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, this talk explores how urban vulnerability can be transformed into opportunities for resilient, inclusive and thriving urban futures. Partner: ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS
What’s Cooking #5
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.
What’s Cooking #4
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.
EUNIC NEXT! 2026
Young European designers from eleven countries rethink the material wood, sustainability and designing with imperfection. Partner: EUNIC Berlin
What’s Cooking #3
Bika Rebek and Shalini Vimal explore how architecture and ecology can move from afterthought to alliance.
What’s Cooking #2
Silvia Gioberti and Christian Schmidts discuss performance, presence and the relationship between the physical and digital body in space.
Architecture Against Architecture
A conversation between OMA partner Reinier de Graaf and architect Sam Chermayeff, against the backdrop of de Graaf’s latest book
Unlearning History and Theory
The workshop UNLEARNING HISTORY AND THEORY engages with architectural history and theory through decolonial perspectives. Conceived as an open and exploratory format, it interrogates colonial power relations, hegemonic structures, inequalities and exclusions in knowledge systems, and encourages critical discussion and collaborative approaches towards more inclusive and diverse educational practices. Partner: Architecture-Theory-History Department at the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau
What’s Cooking #1
Julian Meisen and Emanuel Heisenberg in the first edition of a new event series, bringing together conversations and fresh perspectives from beyond the architectural status quo
Democratic Design – #4 Democratic Education
The fourth and final Lab Talk in the Aedes programme Democratic Design examines new approaches to teaching the next generation democratic values and participation through planning and design. Partners: Berlin Capital Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfonds), ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS
