Tue., 14.07.2026, 19:00 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.
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)
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.
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
Iowa State University & German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) | Urban Form & Urban Nature
Students from Iowa State and GUtech Oman engage in international, multidisciplinary collaboration. The studio focuses on sustainable urban design and the assessment of environmental performance strategies across multiple scales within Berlin’s urban context. Partners: Iowa State University, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)
FAAD Universidad Diego Portales | Crisis and Transformation
The "Crisis and Transformation" workshop promotes the journey as a learning system. It is structured as an interdisciplinary experience that explores the journey as a knowledge system and its role in students' active learning.
Partners: Universidad Diego Portales
Architectures of Weaving
The transdisciplinary discussion combines architecture and textiles from the perspectives of design, cultural studies, microbiology, materials science and textile technology. Partners:Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Exzellenzcluster "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material"
Living Prototypes #2
The final symposium and exhibition opening of a European research project on digitally fabricated building components made with bio-based materials. Partners:Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), Bonn; IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona; WASP, Massa Lombarda; ITKE, University of Stuttgart; FibR, Kernen; CITA, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen; COBOD, Copenhagen
