Conference
Crise urbaine à Berlin ?
19 May 2022
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The "Berlin in debates" series of round tables is an opportunity to evoke the current situation of the German capital as it reflects on itself and its changing identity. Through the eyes of artists and the prism of projects promoted by Berlin cultural institutions, these group discussions seek to encourage exchanges concerning the current artistic scene in Berlin.
Berlin is currently in the throes of an identity crisis, in which questions of town planning have a key role to play. With the fall of the Wall and the return of the city as capital, Berlin became Europe's leading urban development project. Spaces for construction and reconstruction seemed to be infinite, and Germany's thriving economy attracted international promoters and architects. Thirty years later, public opinion in Berlin is dominated by virulent debates concerning the reconstruction of Hohenzollern Castle and the redevelopment of Tempelhof airport, along with questions concerning the heritage of the old East Berlin.
How can we explain these frictions regarding the urban memory of Berlin? What have urban planning policies done to prevent Berlin from finding itself in the same situation as other capitals, overrun by gentrification, its centre asphyxiated by a concentration of shops and offices, making it difficult for the city to evolve toward a 3.0 city that respects the new ecological emergencies?
With
Jean-Louis Cohen, historian of 20th-Century Architecture and Urbanism, guest professor at the Collège de France since 2014
Corinne Jaquand, PhD in History of Art (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), a qualified architect with a degree in Urban Planning, lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Paris-Belleville
Matthias Hoch, photographer
Niklas Maak, journalist with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, specialising in architecture, guest lecturer at the Städelschule in Frankfurt
When
7pm - 8:30pm
Where
Matthias Hoch, BER #79, 2018
© Matthias Hoch/ VG Bild-Kunst Bonn Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake Berlin/Stockholm/Mexico City