HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft is one of Berlin's municipal housing companies. This exhibition presents ten exemplary current housing projects by HOWOGE for Berlin.
Partners: HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft, Berlin
Urban (in)securities. #2 Defending the City of the Future
Criminal and terrorist attacks, protests, the increase of urban pollution and the rising feeling of insecurity affect our cities and raise widespread concern regarding the consequences for our identity and way of life. How can the city remain a “public” space? How do city planners, political scientists and cultural commentators envision the city of the future?
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Lab Talk Series: überFLUSS
This series of events is dedicated to the topic of river bathing and river spas in the larger context of current urban developments. It engages in discussions with stakeholders from science, politics, and urban society from Germany and abroad. Partners:Flussbad Berlin e.V.
Infrastructure Space
Infrastructural systems, serving as the lifeblood of our inhabited spaces, facilitate the flow of various elements and shape the structure of our built environments. Researchers present case studies that highlight infrastructure's broader significance beyond technical aspects, encompassing political, economic, social, and aesthetic dimensions. Partners:Ruby Press, Berlin; LafargeHolcim Awards, Zurich
Recording a Sensibility of Place
A discussion on the Smithsons' forthcoming book The Space Between and on the importance of developing a sensibility of place in contemporary architecture and urbanism
ÜberFLUSS #5
On this evening, we deal with the questions of how civil society initiatives make their concerns heard, how they influence political decisions with their actions, and what role rivers play in urban development policy. Partners:Flussbad Berlin e.V.
Technische Universität Braunschweig & LABMOB/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | Housing Infrastructures & Impossible Sites
In a fruitful and creative studio environment, German and Brazilian students explore innovative and visionary design solutions for 21st century Berlin together. Partners: Technische Universität Braunschweig & LABMOB/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Urban (in)securities: Science. Fiction. International Politics
This one-day programme within the frame of the Bucerius Summer School 2016, focuses on the interplay between city planning, securitisation and international politics. Partners:Bucerius Summer School, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Urban (in)securities. #1 The City as Target
Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and epidemics impact the physical appearance of our urban environment and evoke fears about the visible and invisible insecurities targeting our cities. Urban spaces are identified as an interface for vulnerability and contagion with a growing demand for the state to defend and police public places.
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
ÜberFLUSS #4
In this forth edition of the series, urban professionals from Copenhagen and Berlin talk about the potential of inner-urban waters as well as leisure and recreation facilities in cities. Copenhagen is famous worldwide as a particularly livable, sustainable and innovative city. Partners:Flussbad Berlin e.V.
