Daniel Libeskind and Tim Renner talk about their positions on the state of Berlin, now and in the future.
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
Medellín: Topography of Knowledge
Accompanying the Aedes exhibition, the talk introduces the city’s recent history, highlighting how progressive urban planning and architecture are transforming Colombia's second largest city from a war- and crime-ridden place to a prospered and liveable metropolis.
Partners:Alcaldía de Medellín; Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Metropolitana
Framing City
Students continue to explore the Framing City methodology evolved in previous studios here. Sequences of methods will transfer the observations and impressions of the students about Berlin from mapping through to interventions. The Kulturforum is the focus of this year’s studio. Partners: University of Kentucky, Lexington
New Architectures of Everyday Space
Collaborating with their peers from the University of Kentucky, the students undertook fieldwork in and around the Kulturforum. Partners: McGill University, Montréal
Politecnico di Milano | Enabling the Edge: Urban Farms in Milan and Berlin
This design studio focused on the wider systems that individual farms and gardening enterprises connect into. Tying in with the Milano Expo, a second emphasis was the farm typology, exploring future uses for abandoned examples located within urban fabric of Milan. Partners: Politecnico di Milano
Transforming Cities
In parts of the world, new city foundations and large-scale urban expansions are still booming, while in Europe, with its already high degree of urbanisation, more cautious interventions in the urban structure are on the agenda.
Partners:Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, Berlin; jovis Verlag, Berlin
Urban Interplay
Francine Houben of Mecanoo architecten and Benedetta Tagliabue of EMBT are two of today's leading architects. On the occasion of the opening of their Aedes exhibitions, both architects share their common focus on the importance of interaction in public space. Partners:Dutch Embassy in Berlin.
University of Sydney – Curatorial Practice in Architecture
This design studio introduces students to a collaborative, multidisciplinary action research setting for curatorial practice in architecture. Focus this year will be on the theme of Perception at the site of the airport Tempelhof. Partners: University of Sidney
Jerusalem – Berlin
The symposium focuses on artistic and architectural interventions in public space, inviting artists, architects, and theorists to share their experiences and insights, culminating in a keynote lecture by artist Dani Karavan. Partners:TU Berlin, Technion Haifa, DAAD
