BIO BERLIN – Visions for non-anthropocentric cohabitation of humans, flora and fauna
How can we build cities that place the survival of the planet in the center of their becoming? Envisioning the cities of tomorrow from a „non-anthropocentric“ perspective means to bring down man from the pedestal of life and putting him at the same level with other vegetative and animal species that share the same urban realm. Partners: TU Braunschweig and Politecnico di Milano
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
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
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
Institute of Architecture Technology, TU Graz | BUSting Berlin – hybrid infrastructures
Berlin is a dynamic, vital metropolis that counts as one of the favourite destinations in Europe. The studio adresses the topic of mobility arising from that precondition and the question of how Berlin is actually being accessed. Within this frame, the students focus especially on the current phenomenon of increasing bus travel. Partners: Institute of Architecture Technology, TU Graz
University of Technology, Sydney | Ghosts of Berlin: German Centre for the Return of Lost Art
Berlin is a city of ghosts. Berlin is literally haunted by the past; traces of the Cold War division, the Second World War, the National Socialist regime, and more, dot the urban landscape keeping the past alive in the present.
Partners: University of Technology, Sydney
Universidad Diego Portales – Berlin Palimpsest
Students of the Universidad Diego Portales dive deep into the history of Berlin, trying to rediscover forgotten spaces which characterized the city during its different historic periods. Partners: Universidad Diego Portales
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
