On Friday 18th August we celebrated the opening of HOW DO WE AGGLO together with international guests. After welcoming speeches, project presentations and stimulating discussions, we rounded off the evening with a dinner together. It was great that so many of you came along in the best summer weather. We are looking forward to the upcoming panel discussion on 25 August from 6 pm.
Agglomerations are the future of our cities. The negative image of the urban fringe is a view of the past. Instead, we see unique potential in the agglomeration that must not be left to unchecked growth.
Faceless, fragmented, forgotten – this is the state of most areas in cities around the world. How can these fragmented areas be brought together? Imagine creating urban ecotones as places of friction and encounter, where spatial interventions bring people together to inhabit buildings, open spaces, urban systems and atmospheres.
Welcome to the experiment: an exhibition, 5 approaches, 4 universities and 3 disciplines to agglomerate ideas for urban living in Berlin. We want design to become a topic again: site-specific, across the hemispheres, through the professions of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture, and anchored in theory and practice.
Opening (in English): 18.08.2023, 18:00 hrs
Welcome by
Ambassador Christian Buck,
Cultural platform feldfünf
Youmna Osman,
Chargée d’Affaires a.i. Egyptian Embassy
Johan Dittrich Hallberg,
Swedish Embassy
Manfred Kühne,
Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing
“How do we AGGLO?”
By the initiators:
Benita Braun-Feldweg, bfstudio-architekten Berlin
Lisa Diedrich, Walter Gropius Chair Buenos Aires and SLU Malmö
Flavio Janches, FADU-UBA Buenos Airesvelopment, Building and Housing,