Once a brewery and machine shop, Pfefferberg has been transformed into a place of cultural production. The objective of the studio is to establish a new working infrastructure, consisting of a central space filled with technological wizardry, meeting spaces, and secretarial services. Partners: Dessau Institute of Architecture
The Third Degree: Migration and Space
A lecture and accompanying discussion about new topologies and journeys between southern Europe and the Maghreb Region. Partners:Embassy of Spain in Berlin
DENK MAL BERLIN – Wer baut die Stadt?
Preview of the documentary film: 'DENK MAL BERLIN' with a subsequent conversation between Georgia Tornow and Regula Lüscher. Partner: Offroad Reports
BERLIN WALLS
In the wake of the Berlin Wall's removal is a residue of interstitial spaces. Some can still be experienced in their original state while others have developed their own character. For the most part, their integration into larger urban developments has eliminated them. What to do with those spaces? Partners: École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris
Universidad Europea de Madrid – Design Studio 2009
Berlin's urban setting is seen as an open field where relationships amongst communities can be understood as a continuous process. The transformation from solid to liquid modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting. Adopting four distinct media, Students and professors from UEM developed proposals for urban reconfiguration along the River Spree in the socio-economically charged context of Berlin's Kreuzberg. Partner: Universidad Europea de Madrid
The Why Factory, TU-Delft – Design Studio 2009
This studio was constructed around a series of realities brought about by the current financial crisis. The studio aimed at debating and visualising new possibilities that the crisis might open to the city of Berlin, as well as to the discipline of architecture itself. How to use the crisis as a momentum for change? Partners: The Why Factory; TU Delft