Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this lecture, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius and Jan Liesegang, present raumlaborberlin's ethos and way of working of through four projects:
-Floating University Berlin, an experiment in collective learning housed in a temporary structure floating in a Berlin rainwater basin
-[Working on] Common Ground, a 100-day learning laboratory in a former brick factory in Kosovo’s capital city
-Allmänna Badet / Bathing Culture, a public sauna built above the harbor of a deindustrializing Swedish port city.
-Haus der Statistik, the development of the GDR's national statistics office abandoned headquarters, through which raumlabor is exploring the possibilities of cooperative city making.
The presentation is followed by a conversation with Mark Wigley, dean emeritus of Columbia University GSAPP. The conversation touches on the power of "non-threatening", temporary structures in making lasting changes to the urban fabric, the central role education plays in the practice's projects, and raumlaborberlin's impact on global architectural discourse.
In this lecture, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius and Jan Liesegang, present raumlaborberlin's ethos and way of working of through four projects:
-Floating University Berlin, an experiment in collective learning housed in a temporary structure floating in a Berlin rainwater basin
-[Working on] Common Ground, a 100-day learning laboratory in a former brick factory in Kosovo’s capital city
-Allmänna Badet / Bathing Culture, a public sauna built above the harbor of a deindustrializing Swedish port city.
-Haus der Statistik, the development of the GDR's national statistics office abandoned headquarters, through which raumlabor is exploring the possibilities of cooperative city making.
The presentation is followed by a conversation with Mark Wigley, dean emeritus of Columbia University GSAPP. The conversation touches on the power of "non-threatening", temporary structures in making lasting changes to the urban fabric, the central role education plays in the practice's projects, and raumlaborberlin's impact on global architectural discourse.
