As part of the 2015 research visit to Berlin, HMUI Berlin portal organized a workshop in collaboration with the Center For Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University Berlin. The workshop included lectures and presentations divided into two main panels:
Panel I – Urban Plans
Laura Calbet i Elias (150 Years of Hobrecht’s Plan for Berlin)
Reiner Nagel (Berlin’s Urban Development Plans Since 2000)
Andreas Wolf (Urban and Regional Restructuring in Eastern Germany)
Matthias Böttger (chair and commentator)
Panel II – Urban Practices
Gertrud Hüwelmeier (Vietnamese Merchants and Markets)
Philip Misselwitz (Refugee Accommodation Strategies)
Brigitta Wagner (Filmmaking as a Method of Urban Research)
Kees Christiaanse (chair and commentator)
Participants:
Eve Blau, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University
Matthias Böttger, Deutsches Architekturzentrum
Dorothee Brantz, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin
Jessica Bridger, Journalist and Consultant, Berlin
Laura Calbet i Elias, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin
Kees Christiaanse, KCAP Architects and ETH Zürich, Rotterdam/Zürich
Kenny Cupers, Program in Urban and Landscape Studies, University of Basel
Sonja Dümpelmann, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University
Laura Frahm, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Erik Ghenoiu, Harvard-Mellon Initiative, Harvard University
Max Hirsh, Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong
Gertrude Hüwelmeier, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin
Philip Misselwitz, Institute for Architecture, TU Berlin
Reiner Nagel, Federal Foundation of Baukultur, Potsdam
Eric Rentschler, Department of German, Harvard University
Christina Schwenkel, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Riverside
Jörg Stollmann, Institute for Architecture, Berlin
Barış Ülker, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin
Brigitta Wagner, Filmmaker and Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow, Berlin
Andreas Wolf, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig
and students researchers in the HMUI Berlin portal:
Pedro Aparicio, Mikela De Tchaves, Igor Ekštajn, Emma Goode, Eliyahu Keller, Michael Keller, Aleksandra Kudryashova, and Namik Mackic