#  Berlin Workshop June 2015: Reconceptualizing The Urban 

 



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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



 



 

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- [ Portals ](/project/portals)