Akademie der Künste Berlin Architecture, DEMO:POLIS, The Right to Public Space, Design Possibilities

Akademie der Künste Berlin exhibition

DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space, show at Academy of Arts, in the German capital

25 Feb 2016

Location: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany

DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space

An Exhibition on Design Possibilities for Public Space through Civil Intervention
12 March – 29 May 2016

Exhibition Opening 11 March, 8 pm, Opening Symposium 6 pm

Security Breakdown/Zwei weiße Flaggen, New York, 2014:

photo © Wermke/Leinkauf

DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space

The exhibition ?DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space“ presents options available to the public in shaping its own cities. Increasingly critical citizens are demanding the right to have a say in decisions that affect public space. Following previous emphases on the relationships between the city and landscape as well as the city and culture, with this exhibition the Academy is focusing on public space as a venue for working through processes of democratic transformation.

The anonymous, virtual public space of the Internet and real streets and squares are both the places for the interests and concerns of the people and the subject of their rights to freedom. The exhibition is curated by Wilfried Wang, an architect and member of the Akademie der Künste.

Incorporating plans and models, photographs and films, DEMO:POLIS illustrates how architects, city planners, artists and the general public design and use public space. Examples range from Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, to the Campo de Cebada in Madrid, to the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin. The exhibition shows spatial designs that affect both small squares as well as entire strips of coast. It displays documentation from demonstrations and critical art interventions and gives insights into the work of successful bottom-up initiatives for safeguarding public spaces.

Viewers are invited to take part in interactive discussion events to co-create the cities of the future. On display are works by Barkow & Leibinger, Foster + Partners, Hans Haacke, Seán Harrington, Reinhild Hoffmann, Kleihues + Kleihues, Lacaton & Vassal, Andrés Mignucci, Elfi Mikesch, Rozana Montiel, Michael Najjar, Michael Ruetz, Stih & Schnock, Sadar + Vuga, Michael van Valkenburgh, Wermke/Leinkauf, Zuloark, et al. An extensive catalogue, edited by Barbara Hoidn, is published in an English and a German edition by Park Books, Zurich.

A diverse event programme during the course of the exhibition continues the debates it activates. At the symposium, marking the opening on 11 and 12 March, talks will be given by Andrew Keen, Blanca Zúñiga, Wermke/Leinkauf, Seán Harrington, Peter Carroll, representatives of 100% Tempelhofer Feld, et al. Every Tuesday the “Urban Parliament” opens a forum for debates, in which, among other aims, activists from city initiatives and visitors will prepare the “Berlin Urban Rights Charta.” Academy fellows present their projects for the exhibition in a programme night of events.

“Decentralized Music” introduces musical models of communitarisation through concerts and actions. During the 36-hour conference “Public Space: Fights and Fictions”, a cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, participants from around the world will discuss the developments and threats to public space.

An Akademie der Künste exhibition with the kind support of the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, and the Society of Friends of the Academy of Arts.

Exibition open as of 10:30 am.

With
Wilfried Wang, Architect, Curator of the exhibition, Member of the Akademie der Künste
Barbara Hoidn, Architect, Editor of the catalogue
Juan Chacón, Architect, Universal Declaration of Urban Rights, Zuloark
Stefan Müller Arisona, 3D City Simulation, FH Nordwestschweiz
Jeanine Meerapfel, President of the Akademie der Künste
Johannes Odenthal, Director of Programming of the Akademie der Künste, Moderator

More information: www.adk.de/demopolis

Akademie der Künste

Academy of Arts, Pariser Platz 4
Dae built: 2005
Design: Behnisch, Behnisch + Partner with Werner Durth

photo © Adrian Welch
Akademie der Künste Berlin Building

Akademie der Künste Berlin exhibition in 2020
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Location: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany

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Berlin Architecture Walking Tours – guided city walks by e-architect

Contemporary Architecture in Berlin – architectural selection below:

Wave Apartments, Stralauer Allee 13/14
Architects: GRAFT Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH

photograph © BTTR GmbH
Wave Apartments

James Simon Galerie, Museum Island
Design: David Chipperfield Architects

photo © Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects
James Simon Galerie Berlin