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
WATER – CURSE OR BLESSING!?
Accompanying the Aedes exhibition, the symposium focuses on the question of how architects and urban planners in the Asian-Pacific region are coping with water-related issues and offers insights into specific scenarios found in the urban areas, while also incorporating a larger perspective of the region as a whole, which faces a heterogeneous mix of water-related threats and issues ranging from flooding to shortages, including pollution and other challenges.
Partners: Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin (DKLB)
Watershed: Rivers Wild / Rivers Tame
The studio explores how rivers have shaped our civilization, and how we, in turn, have shaped them. Partners: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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
