The kick off Lab Talk of the programme Museum of the 21st Century, which examines the relationship and interaction between museums, urban space, culture, economy and society. Partners:Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Designing Educational Facilities
The public opening session kicks off a four-day conference and frames the dialogue around the conference theme of major educational facilities in and around Berlin, exploring their history, planning, and design process. Partners:American Institute of Architects
HANDS ON CINEMA! Konzepte für die räumliche Gestaltung und strategische Ausrichtung von fünf Arthouse-Kinos
What does a cinema need to be like in order to be an important and visible public space for the audience? What role do design, interior architecture and alternative content play? Partners: Creative Europe MEDIA Desks Deutschland, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, TU Braunschweig, Beuth Hochschule Berlin
From a Vertical Forest to a Forest City
The Berlin-based architect Almut Grüntuch-Ernst of Grüntuch-Ernst Architekten discusses with Stefano Boeri about his urban visions, architectural and planning practice and the forest in the city.
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
Identity in a Floating World
For many years Hong Kong has acted as a model for emerging cities in Asia. What makes Hong Kong a model, and what roles are architects playing in the the process of adaption and reinvention?
Taksim, Tahrir, Occupy & Co. #1 Political Meaning of Urban Space
The Lab Talk explores the political meaning of urban space, highlighting how incidents in everyday urban spaces affect (inter-)national politics and focussing on civil resistance and protest movements that frequently occupy streets, public squares, financial and governmental districts or central city parks.
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Das Kulturforum. Baukultur ohne Verfahrenskultur?
The Kulturforum is an ongoing construction site of German cultural politics. Now, a further museum is being planned here. But is the Kulturforum a problem that can only be solved through architecture? Isn't Berlin missing the unique chance to address the urban landscape of this architectural ensemble through urban design?
Future Urbanscape: Berlin’s Kulturforum
The students employ methods of urban analysis through film and undertake open urban design responses to the wider area of the Kulturforum to explore initial approaches to the design of the planned museum building. Partners: Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile
Pratt institute | Festivals, Film and Public Events in Berlin
Students of the Pratt Insitute studied the film and festival industry in Berlin and its ability to create temporary collective space. Partners: Pratt Institute
