Kirchen gehören zu den prägenden Bauwerken unserer Städte und Dörfer. Mit dem tiefgreifenden Wandel kirchlichen Lebens stellt sich zunehmend die Frage, ob und wie die identitätsstiftenden sakralen Orte langfristig erhalten, öffentlich zugänglich und als Teil der gebauten Umwelt weiterentwickelt werden können. Partner: Bundesstiftung Baukultur
Radical Hope – Resilient Cities and Safe Havens
How can architecture and urban design shape open, vibrant and future-proof cities in an age of multiple crises? In collaboration with the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, this talk explores how urban vulnerability can be transformed into opportunities for resilient, inclusive and thriving urban futures. Partner: ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS
What’s Cooking #5
How can we create a fairer, more affordable Berlin? Bringing together the Architect’s Union and the Berlin Tenants’ Union, this conversation explores how collective action can connect labour, housing and urban justice.
What’s Cooking #4
Why are women highly engaged in architecture and activism, yet often less visible? Helen Fleming, Simay Peters and Lena Olvedi discuss feminism, rethinking spaces and how bold ideas can transform the built environment.
Building More Future
A Lab Talk and Book Launch exploring how policy, planning and design are reshaping urban futures in Germany and the Netherlands. Partner: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
From Ecocide to Repair?
Scholars from the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago and the Habitat Unit at TU Berlin – in dialogue with leading voices in critical urban geography and political ecology – reflect on the socio-ecological entanglements linking cities to distant geographies of extraction, production, circulation and waste. Partners: Urban Theory Lab, Habitat Unit
The Crowning of Transformation
Gaudí anniversary, Sagrada Família and Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026: The talk explores urban futures between historical legacy and contemporary transformation. Partner: Generalitat de Catalunya
EUNIC NEXT! 2026
Young European designers from eleven countries rethink the material wood, sustainability and designing with imperfection. Partner: EUNIC Berlin
What’s Cooking #3
Bika Rebek and Shalini Vimal explore how architecture and ecology can move from afterthought to alliance.
Wohnraum, der nicht die Welt kostet
Vier zukunftsweisende Szenarien für nachhaltiges und bezahlbares Wohnen Partner: Buro Happold, empirica, Netzwerk Immovielien, urbi_et
