An inquiry uncovering contemporary international projects relevant for the improvement of the future city. Partners:Zumtobel, Dornbirn
Design and Politics. #7 Re-city, the ‘Total Makeover’
Re-city is a bottom-up approach to the restructuring, renovation and reinvention of our cities, stemming not from initiatives, but out of city-ness, through schemes of any scale, any alliance, any 'rules and regulations' rather than through big projects.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
Design and Politics. #6 Moving Cities
How do we examine and appreciate the mutually influential relationships between transport modes and nodes, movement patterns, population shifts, and urban fabric and composition? What are the key planning tasks around this next stage of network mobility?
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
Design and Politics. #4 Learning to Provoke
Standard urban planning approaches are no longer effective. A more politically engaged, pro-active and provocative alternative is necessary, grounded by the primary objective of giving meaning to the challenges and their development in our cities. It is in urban architecture, in planning and urban design, that this 'politicalness' of design emerges.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
Berlin Waterfronts 2011
Berlin has a voluminous presence of water both surrounding the city and crossing it. Despite this, Berlin's relationship with the water is not clear, and historically the Spree doesn’t seem to have the leading role as public space that the rivers in Cologne, Paris and London have. Partners:Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile
Cinema of the Future 2011. Back to the Future?
A panel discussion about the future of cinema in the city with the new Zoo Palast as example.
Partners:Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam
Mauerpark Reloaded
The challenge is to pursue an interrogation of possible futures regarding Mauerpark, Berlin, integrating beyond the assumed dialectic of public and private spaces.
Partners: Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City; Universidad de Las Americas, Mexico City
My Knowledge Space: A New Public Library Prototype for the 21st Century
A symposium about the new Berlin library exploring the roles, tasks and functions of the public library of the 21st century as well as the demands it has to meet.
Partners:Central and Regional Library Berlin
Liveable Cities – Architecture Agendas in Singapore and Germany
Six architects from Singapore and Germany discuss what makes a great city to live, work and play in based around examples from Singapore and Berlin.
The Reading Gardens
The students approach two central subjects: the future of a library and the location of Tempelhof as a possible site. Partners: PBSA - Peter Behrens School of Architecture Düsseldorf
