Borders and Territories. #2 Spatial Representations of Connections and Disconnections

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

Drawing on Sketchbooks

Drawing on Sketchbooks

A discussion accompanying the exhibition Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects at the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing

Science. Fiction. International Politics: Visible and Invisible Borders

Science. Fiction. International Politics: Visible and Invisible Borders

The Bucerius Summer School workshop examines questions regarding visible and invisible borders on spatial, social, cultural, technical and economical levels through the fictional narratives and places of science fiction films.
Partners: Bucerius Summer School, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg

Speaking Through Sketchbooks

Speaking Through Sketchbooks

A discussion accompanying the exhibition Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects at the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing

Barcelona Pavilion and Beyond

Barcelona Pavilion and Beyond

The screening of the documentary "Mies on Scene.Barcelona in Two Acts" about the reconstruction of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion is followed by a conversation on the pavilion's significance in European cultural heritage and its relation to urban space.
Partners: Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona

Das Arbeitende Konzert (Revision IV-V)

Das Arbeitende Konzert (Revision IV-V)

Das Arbeitende Konzert/The Working Concert’ (Revision IV-V) is a discursive format by the composer Christopher Dell. During the concert, internationally acclaimed musicians work together to demonstrate the piece as open form.

Hand-drawn Future. Architectural Drawing in the Digital Age

Hand-drawn Future. Architectural Drawing in the Digital Age

The dialogue was about architectural drawing as a medium to transfer architectural thoughts, as an essential part of architecture education, but also as an original and independent conceptual art form.

“ColourID” – Farbstrategien in Architektur und Kommunikation

“ColourID” – Farbstrategien in Architektur und Kommunikation

The symposium "colourID" dealt with questions of the cultural significance and spatial potential of colours. I

Taksim, Tahrir, Occupy & Co. #2  Visuality and Urban Space

Taksim, Tahrir, Occupy & Co. #2 Visuality and Urban Space

The Lab Talk concentrates on the visualisation of urban spaces during civil resistance incidents and protests. The digital sharing of these visuals on social media ‘virtualises’ and instantly ‘internationalises’ these spaces, facilitating the immediate production and transportation of news and laying the ground for interaction among protesters and between protesters and non-protesters.
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg

Little Utopias in Big Spaces

Little Utopias in Big Spaces

Using creative mapping methods in fieldwork in and around Berlin’s Kulturforum, this design studio investigates how big urban spaces, buildings and monuments can exercise power, impose behaviours and narratives, and in some instances, also alienate the human.
Partners: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology