In China, and many other countries across the world, rapid urbanisation processes have produced unevenly developed landscapes made up of urban growth centres and disadvantaged hinterlands. The first international conference within the framework of the Sino-German research and development project Urban-Rural Assembly (URA) takes this as a starting point towards a global exploration of the political, ecological and social relevance of integrated approaches in urban-rural planning and governance.
Partners: Habitat Unit, TU Berlin; CAUP, Tongji University, Shanghai
Die Teilung der Welt: Zeugnisse der Kolonialgeschichte
In an impressive photo series, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg documented the monumental archive of the Spanish colonial power in Seville. Partners:Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin
Transit Spaces: (Dis)Connections and the Fluid Places In-Between
Digitalisation, increased mobility and globalisation have created new spatial dynamics. The places shaped by these dynamics are characterised by the transient movement of people and goods, overlapping networks and meshworks, blurred borders and a constant state of flexibility - physically and culturally. What could a border region of the future in a context of fluid spaces look like?
Partners:ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Christoph Hesse und Ritter Schumacher im Gespräch
The architects Christoph Hesse as well as Jon Ritter and Michael Schumacher present their projects and work in rural areas.
Universidad Diego Portales – Berlin Architectural Guide 2019
The BERLIN ARCHITECTRUAL GUIDE is the outcome of an audiovisual research conducted by students visiting from the Universidad Diego Portales. It aims to depict the multiple historical and ideological layers that interact throughout Berlin, reflecting the city's rich and diverse contemporary condition. Partners: Universidad Diego Portales
Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87
Akcan's book exemplifies inclinations towards an open architecture (or the lack thereof) in the context of the discriminatory housing regulations of IBA's urban renewal development in Berlin’s immigrant neighbourhood Kreuzberg.
Partners: Esra Akcan, Cornell University, Ithaca; University of Melbourne
New Space for Built Experiments in Rural China
In China, where dynamic urbanisation and globalisation processes have been taking place, the question arises: what happens to the countryside?
Partners: Li Xiangning, Shanghai
Extrovert Interior
The past decade has seen the museum transform from a physical space for artifacts to a dynamic institution hosting events, discourse, and experiences, blurring boundaries with urban spaces and other cultural venues, raising questions about democratising knowledge, challenging urban centrality, redefining publicness, and impacting the role of architecture in museum design. Partners:Centre for the Future of Places, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Regions on the Rise. Culture and Architecture as Drivers for Rural Development
The symposium invites international policymakers, architects, planners, researchers, economists, curators and related professionals to the successful case study area of Songyang to share and archive experiences, strategies and new ideas for the development of the 'global rural region' of the future.
Partners: Songyang County Committee, Songyang County People's Government
Borders and Territories. #2 Spatial Representations of Connections and Disconnections
This Lab Talk deals with spatial representations of connections and disconnections and the transfer of geopolitical and socio-cultural imaginaries of the world. Partners:ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
