Sat., 14.11.2026, 17:00 This Lab Talk explores how innovative circular materials can move from experiment to construction practice – and what it takes to overcome the technical, practical and collaborative hurdles along the way. Partners: Pretty Plastic, LOOPTOPIA festival
Light and Dark
Thu., 05.11.2026 New regulations on light pollution are changing how we illuminate buildings, public spaces and cities – this Lab Talk explores how lighting design can balance safety, atmosphere and urban quality with the protection of nature and nocturnal ecosystems. Partner: Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment (SenMVKU)
What’s Cooking #6
Wed., 14.10.2026 How can we create an inclusive and queer spaces Berlin? Bringing together architect, urban practitioner, former Urbane Praxis and Floating University programme coordinator Kristin Lazarova, and Sveta Gorlatova of the Feminist Spaces Collective, this conversation explores new approaches to city-making.
Radical Hope – Resilient Cities and Safe Havens
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
Building More Future
A Lab Talk and Book Launch exploring how policy, planning and design are reshaping urban futures in Germany and the Netherlands. Partner: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
From Ecocide to Repair?
Scholars from the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago and the Habitat Unit at TU Berlin – in dialogue with leading voices in critical urban geography and political ecology – reflect on the socio-ecological entanglements linking cities to distant geographies of extraction, production, circulation and waste. Partners: Urban Theory Lab, Habitat Unit
Iowa State University x German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) | Urban Form & Urban Nature 2026
Students investigate Berlin’s urban fabric through the lens of climate, sustainability and computational design, exploring the relationship between urban form and nature. Partners: Iowa State University, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)
The Crowning of Transformation
Gaudí anniversary, Sagrada Família and Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026: The talk explores urban futures between historical legacy and contemporary transformation. Partner: Generalitat de Catalunya
EUNIC NEXT! 2026
Young European designers from eleven countries rethink the material wood, sustainability and designing with imperfection. Partner: EUNIC Berlin
Wohnraum, der nicht die Welt kostet
Vier zukunftsweisende Szenarien für nachhaltiges und bezahlbares Wohnen Partner: Buro Happold, empirica, Netzwerk Immovielien, urbi_et
