SLU Urban Talks under MakeCity Festivalen i Berlin

The activities

feldfünf organises in collaboration with guest curator Dr Lisa Diedrich, professor of landscape architecture and director of the Research Platform SLU Urban Futures of SLU University/Alnarp, a threefold lecture series with international actors in the fields of urbanism and landscape architecture.

The presented research and practice embraces experiments for urban futures – to upgrade the informal districts of Argentine metropolises (Talk #1), to define home for urbanised aboriginal communities in Australia (Talk #2), to continuously reshape the public space of European cities (Talk #3).

This endeavour focuses on redesign rather than on new forms, on fundamental figures of thought for remixing the city, and on design from the ground up – it is an invitation to experiment with neighbourhoods, cultures and urbanities, also in Germany, also in the district around the new activity spaces of feldfünf, in the very centre of Berlin.

The venue - Feldfünf

The METROPOLENHAUS Am Jüdischen Museum offers space for interaction in the spirit of the ‘intercultural mosaic’ with its orientation towards art, design and everyday life with a focus on exchange between oriental, Jewish and German culture. Read more here. 

Feldfünf stands for the project spaces on the ground floor that offer temporary project rooms and/or artist studios that can be used as showrooms, pop-up galleries or for workshops to form an environment for exchange, networking, and urban co-existence. The conceptual idea is based on a cross-financing by owners of the residential and commercial units of the Metropolenhaus to activate and offer possibilities linked to the neighborhood. As such a plurality of actors are part in taking responsibility for sustainable urban development. Read more here.

The Berlin Urban Talks

Urban Talk #1 - Tuesday 26 June 
Flavio Janches, architect, BJC Architects/ University of Buenos Aires
Whose City is it? Working with fragmented neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires

Urban Talk #2  - Thursday 28 June 
Gini Lee, curator, Oratunga/ University of Melbourne
Returning Home. Acknowledging communities and cultures in Australia

Urban Talk #3 Friday 29 June 
Maria Goula, landscape architect, Barcelona/ Cornell University, Ithaca
Find Your Public! Spatialising urbanities in European cities