Urban PlayScapes: Initiating Encounter in the Fragmented City
This debate explores the potential of equipping cities with public situations rather than public spaces – public situations that playfully initiate encounter. Partners:Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo; Transsolar, Stuttgart; BMW Guugenheim Lab, Berlin
Design and Politics. #5: Who is Our City?
This debate tackles the question of how increased urbanisation affects politics, urban planning and design and how we can better improve the makeup of our ever changing city structure.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
LOS ANGELES VS. BERLIN – How should cities deal with their architectural past?
A lab talk comparing Los Angeles to Berlin in terms of geography, history and urbanism. Partners:The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, Los Angeles; Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Berlin
