Description
Berlin questions is an annual, multi-day conference and a platform for transdisciplinary dialogue - providing ideas for structural change and collective action. Since 2017, the conference has made Berlin a home for debate, inviting politicians, journalists and artists from all over the world to address topics of global importance. The last edition of the conference, Berlin questions 2021 - Metropolis: The New Now, was dedicated to local solutions to global challenges, with a special focus on the future of the city after the Covid-19 pandemic. Hosted by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, the conference took place in a hybrid format for the first time: both in person at six locations in Berlin and online, via livestream and in the 3D virtual environment The Virtual Now.--------
Deep Dive „Quarantine Economies“
The pandemic has shown us how swiftly local and global economies could shift potentially. Complete industries thrived, have been disrupted or completely re-structured. The time of quarantine marked a moment of standstill: The urgency of the pandemic made fundamental and structural change inevitable. The pandemic thereby proved the idea of Alternativlosigkeit wrong. Human paradigm and cultural values are not a given, but inscribed in the social, economic and legal frameworks that structure our everyday lives. How can we find and implement new policies for a common and better future of global metropolises?
How can we mobilize the law—too often producing processes of injustice and economic subordination at the service of companies and neoliberal forces—to act spatially and counter speculative construction, gentrification, social and spatial segregation, resource depletion, and technological escalation? Is a moratorium the right legal tool to bring spatial matters and resources to public debate? More generally, how to harness policy as a space regulator, bearing in mind its powers and limitations?
Discussion with
Manuel Ehlers, Head of Sustainable Properties Triodos Bank
Sabine Oberhuber, Co-Founder Turntoo
Deane Simpson, professor of architecture, urbanism and urban planning at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Saskia Hebert, Co-Founder subsolar* architektur & stadtforschung
Tobias Hönig und Andrijana Ivanda, Co-Founders c/o now
and opening impulse by
Ramona Pop, Deputy Mayor and Senator for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises
The program will be moderated by Charlotte Malterre Barthes (Harvard GSD) and Angelika Hinterbrandner (Brandlhuber+ Team/bplus.xyz)
| Period | 11 Aug 2021 → 14 Aug 2021 |
|---|---|
| Held at | Berlin Questions, Germany |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Architecture
- Urbanism
- Climate Change
- Moratorium on New Construction
- Adaptive Reuse