Humans need animals and insects to survive: from the honeybees that pollinate plants, to the ants that help maintain a healthy soil, to the birds that control pests. Partners: AA Architectural Association Visiting School London and TU Berlin
MIT & TUB | Migrating the City: Designs and Strategies for User-Driven Habitats
The workshop, involving students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Technische Universität Berlin, challenges Berlin's post-1990s 'critical reconstruction' by proposing a vision where inter-community groups lead projects that address immigration, human mobility, and economic opportunity. Partners: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and TU Berlin
Pratt Institute | URBAN INCUBATORS FOR BERLIN Cultural Production and Consumption in Berlin
Students from Pratt Institute, New York, explore alternative strategies for public space design, cultural activations, and placemaking, drawing inspiration from Berlin's cultural scene. Partners: Pratt Institute
University of Kentucky – Architectonic Characters in the City: Berlin
Students of the University of Kentucky explore the intersection of digital design and urban innovation and create interactive, animal-inspired installations in Berlin's Tiergarten and groundbreaking housing prototypes for Schumacher Quartier. Partners: University of Kentucky
JUST LIVING: Housing Models for the Future
Students explore housing models of the future and new strategies to adapt our habits of living and working to increasingly changing circumstances.
Partners: Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture, Paris
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta | ARRIVAL CITY – BERLIN II
Students from Georgia Tech Undergraduate International Design Studio in Berlin focus on creating innovative refugee housing solutions in Germany. This design studio explores sustainable and integrative urban design, addressing migration, urban density, and social integration. Partners: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
weShare berlin
Students collect and compare various ways in which habitable space in the city is being shared.
Partners: The Why Factory, TU Delft, IKEA Stiftung, Hofheim-Wallau
Housing Models for the Future
Students work on innovative housing typologies for Berlin.
Partners: Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile;
Museums: art, culture, spectacle, access
Students focus on museum accessibility and the role of exhibition design, participation, digital technology. Partners: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Unlivable Berlin
The studio addresses the question of how a city expresses its hostilities and how, as architects, can we foster cities of inclusion. Architecture, landscape and urban design students are asked to consider what it means to accommodate the excluded, and to redress cultural hostilities through architecture and urban thinking.
Partners: University of Melbourne, IKEA-Stiftung, Hofheim-Wallau
