Archaeologies of Sustainability - Licht Luft Scheisse Volume 1, 2020
Licht Luft Scheisse - Volume 1
Archaeologies of Sustainability
Edited by Sandra Bartoli, Silv... more Licht Luft Scheisse - Volume 1
Archaeologies of Sustainability
Edited by Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
The ecological question is not new. Over a hundred years ago, conceptual models and practices were developed in reaction to increasing industrialization and urbanization, which still resonate with our current ideas of sustainability. These approaches reflected not only a systematic understanding of the interactions between humans and the environment, and between nature and technology, but also the growing awareness of a modernity that is depriving itself of the basis of life. The exhibition catalog Archaeologies of Sustainability includes 171 contributions of images, documents, texts, and artworks from the last two centuries, which were shown at the nGbK during summer and autumn 2019.
With contributions by:
Tal Alon-Mozes, bankleer, Sandra Bartoli, Oliver Botar, David H. Haney, Martina Hanusová, Michael Klein & Sasha Pirker, Aglaia Konrad, Joachim Krausse, Silvan Linden, Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Tone L. Nyaas, Alessandra Ponte, Daniel Spruth, Tal Sterngast, Gitte Villesen & Joerg Franzbecker, Florian Wüst
640 pages, 289 b/w illustrations
Concept and editing:
Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Translations:
Ulrich Gutmair (EN-DE), David H. Haney (DE-EN), Kathrin Schömer (EN-DE)
Proofreading and copy editing: Johanna Roth (DE), Mark Soo (EN)
In the age of the Anthropocene, the concept of »nature« stands increasingly in opposition to the realization that we influence, alter, and destroy our environment in all spheres of animate and inanimate matter. Über Nature looks back on the homonymous exhibition of mainly artistic works that address our relationship to nature, the biosphere, and the non-human in the context of the Botanical Museum Berlin–and in this way, directly or indirectly deals also with the institution as a project of modernity.
With contributions by: Böhler & Orendt, Book & Hedén, Joerg Franzbecker, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Heidrun Hubenthal & Michael Wilkens, Katja Kaiser, Susanne Kriemann, Katarzyna Kukula, Kito Nedo, Kim Nekarda, Patricia Piccinini, New Territories_S/he, Gitte Villesen
Concept and editing: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Übersetzungen / Translations: Ulrich Gutmair (EN-DE), David H. Haney (DE-EN), Dorota Eckardt (PL-DE)
Proofreading and copy editing: Johanna Roth (DE), Mark Soo (EN)
200 pages, 113 b/w illustrations Graphic design: State
Tiergarten Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire), 2019
Tiergarten Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire)
TOC and Introduction
Ti... more Tiergarten Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire)
TOC and Introduction
Tiergarten — 210 hectares of forest in the middle of Berlin
and the oldest park in the city — is a place where many aspects of ecology, urbanism, heritage, daily culture, and politics are simultaneously present but also visible transgressed. Over time the park has become an island of anomalies that can be read as a radical expression of what is most urban and public in the city. Human history and natural history are here constructed together, serving as a model of the dissolving antagonism between nature an the built environment.
In Tiergarten, this transgression becomes a key to shifting established ways of talkling about the city.
Contributions by: FAHIM AMIR, MICHAEL BAERS, SANDRA BARTOLI, ELIZABETH FELICELLA, EVA HAYWARD, GUNNAR KLACK, STEFANO MANCUSO, SANDRA PARVU, ALESSANDRA PONTE, KARIN REISINGER, LUISE RELLENSMANN, CHRISTOPHER ROTH, JÖRG STOLLMANN, CHRIS WILBERT, YUKIKO, AND PIERO ZANINI
Editors: Sandra Bartoli and Jörg Stollmann
Copy editing and proofreading: Mark Soo
Design: Studio Yukiko
Publisher: Park Books Zürich
This book originates from the symposium “Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire),” held July 4, 2015 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
From 1982 to 1994, the architect Pierre Pichard, commissioned by UNDP/ UNESCO, documented the rui... more From 1982 to 1994, the architect Pierre Pichard, commissioned by UNDP/ UNESCO, documented the ruins and location of 2,834 pagodas, monasteries, and stupas built at the time of the empire of Bagan (11th to 13th century). Pichard’s work constitutes the first comprehensive survey of Bagan. This inventory, published by UNESCO and the École française d’Extrême-Orient in eight volumes from 1991 to 2001, was intended to comprise and secure the original historical substance of these monuments. Ironically, the inventory data and its archaeological reference map also provided a useful basis for the Adopt-a-Pagoda program launched by the military government of Myanmar in 1995. Up until 2011, the Department of Archaeology – under the behest of the generals – reconstructed more than 1,000 pagodas and built around 800 new ones. International conservation experts severely criticized this project, as it adopted a uniform scheme of building solutions when the historical evidence did not exist.
AG7 documents the current state of 15 monuments of the inventory and compares them to the photographs taken by Pichard. All monuments are located in the periphery of the large pentagonal Dhamma-yazika Pagoda, which can be viewed as the ideological starting point of the reconstruction wave. The fundaments of AG7 are two text contributions by Clara Rellensmann: a glossary that serves to give an overview of the context and an interview with the former Director-General of the Department of Archaeology who implemented the reconstruction and argues for the program to be appraised as a legitimate religious practice.
Editors: Clara Rellensmann, Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Proofreading: Mark Soo
Cover drawing: Lorenzo Pastorello
Layout: Lorenzo Pastorello, Büros für Konstruktivismus
Printing / solid earth, Berlin
Publisher: Büros für Konstruktivismus 2019
Sumet Jumsai is one of the most popular architects of Thailand. Perhaps less known is his work a... more Sumet Jumsai is one of the most popular architects of Thailand. Perhaps less known is his work as a painter and theoretician. His complex and diverse building practice is paradigmatic of fourty years of architecture history in Bangkok and beyond. A number of his buildings is unfortunatley currently endangered. In the course of a research about South-east Asian architecture, Sumet Jumsai became the focus of interest for a series of AG numbers. Two interviews with Sumet Jumsai ensued in 2013 and 2014 in Cambridge and Bangkok respectively, with the documentation of almost all his buildings in Bangkok. AG6 retraces moments of Sumet Jumsai biography, while concentrating on the documentation of the last days of his penthouse on top of the condominium complex he built on the Chalermnit Court near Sukhumvit road.
AG 5 – Siam Area / Former British Council / WWA, 2016
AG 5 documents the building of the former British Council in Bangkok, built in 1970 by architect... more AG 5 documents the building of the former British Council in Bangkok, built in 1970 by architect Sumet Jumsai. This issue concentrates on the upper floor of the building, occupied by fashion label WWA, with their cultivated taste for luxurious invisibility, and includes a short interview with the three founders of WWA. A reprinted essay by architect and urban planner Brian McGrath gives a broader picture of the Siam area, whose development accelerated at the time of the construction of the British Council, and is today the city’s major shopping district. McGrath, whose text can also be read as a plea for the renaissance of the water-bound infrastructure of Bangkok, has been living and teaching in Bangkok for more than fifteen years. His text “War, Trade and Desire: Urban Design and the Counter Public Spheres of Bangkok”, available online, is also highly recommended.
Architektur in Gebrauch AG4 - Tiergarten, Mar 10, 2014
210 hectares of forest in the middle of Berlin. Tiergarten, in all its variety of forms and trans... more 210 hectares of forest in the middle of Berlin. Tiergarten, in all its variety of forms and transformations in time, describes our relationship to the city. Tiergarten is simultaneous history, artifact and nature, and indifferent to the constraints of function and representation, is determined by pure contingency.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: adocs, Berlin 2014
#60-007 Tiergarten, eBook publisher: 60pages
Architektur in Gebrauch AG 3 – Mancunian Way, Mar 10, 2014
AG3 is dedicated to the Mancunian Way, the elevated Highway that runs through Manchester. It is o... more AG3 is dedicated to the Mancunian Way, the elevated Highway that runs through Manchester. It is one of the city’s strangest and most compelling modernist beauties, received the 1968 Concrete Society Award and is recommended for an outing by the Manchester Modernist Society on their website: “At first sight this might seem an odd even perverse choice, a mistake perhaps. Have we gone too far with this adoration of the brutal, this ugly ode to the car, all around pollutant and bête noir of the green lobby, destroyer of much of central Manchester’s original pre-loft dwelling citizenry?” The Mancunian Way is an intrinsic and accepted part of Manchester, planned like a singularity of progress, later to be included in a never fully realized major circulation ring of highways which would have separated the city centre from the rest. This is a strange creature, its engineered details and structure show sophistication and extend their peculiar aesthetics to the large sunken traffic islands under the belly of the beast, all provided with bike and pedestrians tube-like subways. These are real concrete gardens, savage and rough in their material quality, habitats of birds, hedgehogs, and other animals, and a likely evocation of J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island. Ballard’s 1974 novel finds its location in a sunken piece of land surrounded by highways whose description distinctively matches the intersection of the London Westway (A40) and the W Cross Route (A3220) designed by Maunsell & Partners, the same engineers who built the Mancunian Way. / AG3 also includes an interview with Richard Brook, Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture and member of Manchester Modernist Society, writing for their magazine The Modernist.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Richard Brook, Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Drawings: Simon Weihmann
Architektur in Gebrauch AG2 - Falkenhorst, Mar 10, 2014
AG 2 – Falkenhorst
Der Spielplatz Falkenhorst geht zurück auf eine Initiative der Anwohner de... more AG 2 – Falkenhorst
Der Spielplatz Falkenhorst geht zurück auf eine Initiative der Anwohner des gleichnamigen Wohnkomplexes am Stadtrand von Köln. Die von 1968-1970 errichtete Anlage besteht aus fünf Erschließungseinheiten mit 7-15 Geschossen, mit insgesamt 350 Wohnungen, die von dem privaten Bauunternehmer Joachim Hahlbeck als Eigentumswohnungen vermarktet wurden. Bei einem Kaufpreis von etwa 500DM/m2 waren die in Großtafelbauweise errichteten Wohnungen vor allem für junge Familien attraktiv, die in der Regel aus anderen Regionen in das stark wachsende, aber noch weitgehend dörflich geprägte Porz zogen.
Die Frustration der Anwohner über die städtebaulich isolierte und infrastrukturell unterversorgte Siedlung war groß. Als auf der Anliegerstraße wiederholt Kinder angefahren wurden, formierte sich im Sommer 1972 die Interessengemeinschaft Im Falkenhorst e.V.. Die Initiative forderte zunächst von der Stadt Porz erfolglos die Einrichtung einer Spielstraße und begann im Frühjahr 1973 schließlich selbst mit dem Bau eines Spielplatzes. Was folgt, ist die wundersame Verwandlung einer anonymen Nicht-Architektur in eine „Dorfgemeinschaft“, die zeitgemäß zarte Züge einer Kommune annimmt. Der Bau des Spielplatzes ist Motor und Zentrum der Gemeinschaft, die ab Anfang der 80er Jahre zerfällt. / AG2 also includes interviews with Klaus Gils and Dieter Baumgart, two founding members of the playground.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Silvan Linden, Sandra Bartoli, Klaus Gils, Dieter Baumgart
Drawings: Daniel Bruns
Architektur in Gebrauch AG 1 – Golden Lane, Mar 10, 2014
AG 1 documents a moment of the Golden Lane Estate in London. The story begins in an apartment on ... more AG 1 documents a moment of the Golden Lane Estate in London. The story begins in an apartment on the 13th floor of Great Arthur House. The raw and ephemeral beauty of this small apartment, found in a stripped down in-between owners stage of renovation, is amplified by its bare design structure; this is an acute elaboration of resources that while amplifying qualities such as openness, accessibility and the all encompassing penetration of light at building and unit level, it becomes also an instance of the architecture itself and 50 years of use carrying the entire estate.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Drawings: Simon Weihmann
La Zona - Index is a publication produced as a supplement to the eponymous exhibition at the nGbK... more La Zona - Index is a publication produced as a supplement to the eponymous exhibition at the nGbK Berlin. The book explores different categories of "zone": contaminated, decontaminated, post-contaminated, exploited, protected and ephemeral. The initial reference is the zone in the novel Roadside Picnic by the Strugatzky brothers and in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker - a territory that is at once enclosed and abandoned, deadly and healing, unpredictable, and always changing. La Zona - Index is a lexicon that freely associates aspects of "the frontal attack to all conditions of life" and constructs a science fiction narrative out of the polymorphic reality of the "zone" and the fractured idea of progress and enlightenment. Dangerous and remote, deterring and attractive as the zone can be it is a permanent part of our living environment and imaginary world.
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Ulrike Feser, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Publisher: nGbK, Berlin 2012;
English edition – ISBN: 978-3-938515-49-5;
German edition – ISBN: 978-3-938515-48-8
Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv p... more Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv partially adopts the role of an utopian operation in the format of a print magazine. Each one of the three issues of the magazine carries a different date from the future (2011, 2036 and 2048) and was pre-released in the summer of 2007. These issues are in fact an advance from the future. All contributions are conceived from a future perspective encouraging the emergence of a different reality based on the present circumstances.
2048
No. 247
Official, Institutional, state terrorist vision: the utterly and
ultimately planned: utopia, re-appropriation, coercion, good,
oppression, paradise, imposed, eschatology, nature, heroism, terrible beauty, pleasure, disturbing forces, violence, law/shock.
Chapters: Death, Life, Sex
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2503-6), 217 Pages
Luc Merx; Hanna Cheng Maas Mandlova & Laurlene Gwk Nganeland: Report on the Visit of the Anthropological Task Force to Kov; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: tccp opens new recollecting yard; Ingo Niermann: The Return of the Pyramid; Terre Thaemlitz: 105,120,000'33" A Sound Score In Two Movements; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Velimir Abramovic: Ontology of Time; a42.org: Kimilsungia; J. A. Tillmann: The Advent of Avatars; Richard W. Wilkie: Time Realities and Memories of Place; János Sugár: The Golden Age; Martin Conrads: Letter to the Editors; SKART: (What / For Whom / How) Hands Don’t Fear!!!; Maja and Reuben Fowkes: The Art of Post-Ecological Subjectivities; zeitguised: faller world model, biodigital; Hilmar Schmundt: Future instead of Origin or ...; Detlev Arendt: “Harmonised Partnership” from an Evolutive Perspective; Erik Bünger: Have I seen your face before?; Ferenc Gerlóczy: Communism as Follow-up Care; Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto; Iassen Markov & Giulia Tubelli: Verwaltungshefte Januar.
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic.
Logo Design: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Sandra Bartoli
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv p... more Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv partially adopts the role of an utopian operation in the format of a print magazine. Each one of the three issues of the magazine carries a date from the future (2011, 2036 and 2048) and was pre-released in the summer of 2007. These issues are in fact an advance from the future. All contributions are conceived from a future perspective encouraging the emergence of a different reality based on the present circumstances.
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2502-9), 209 Pages
Intercultural Orientation group and the RandomRoutines; Balázs Bodó: Diary; László Garaczi: 1 brain; János Sugár: A New Celebrity Arrives; Benedek Jávor: Notes from the house of past; Stephan Trüby: ESWTNJB – Notes for a conspiracy-theoretical architecture novel; Elizabeth Felicella: Rochester, Minnesota; Sebastian Cichocki: Bloody Exhibition Opening; J. A. Tillmann: hyaena reclama; Ines Schaber: Radio Activity; Reiner Maria Matysik: sexual vegetation; Róbert Szabó-Benke: Konyi Shiva showing; Ferenc Kömlödi: Transhuman Tales; Carolee Schneemann: Parts of a Body House; Far Severö Sapirico: YESTEM (excerpt); LIGNA: read carefully; Guy van Belle: views of the decade; Ronald Düker: Ventoux protests turn violent; Yona Friedman: A museum of the 21st century, in Paris; Levente Polyák: Shelves – The Discovery of Yona Friedman’s A Museum of the 21st Century, in Paris; McKenzie Wark: Between times; Charles Holland: it’s a small world.
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic.
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Katarina Sevic
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv p... more Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv partially adopts the role of an utopian operation in the format of a print magazine. Each one of the three issues of the magazine carries a date from the future, 2011, 2036 and 2048, and was pre-released in 2007. These issues are in fact an advance from the future. All contributions are conceived from a future perspective encouraging the emergence of a different reality based on the present circumstances.
2011
No. 25
Trend-oriented, ridiculous, catastrophic, hyper-future (sleek, shiny, flamboyant), camp, out of control, imminence (warfare, fossil energy), delayed (reaction), green at loss, cataclysmic.
Chapters: Life, Sex, Death
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2501-2), 183 Pages
Aspassia Kouzoupi: Perpetual Entelechy; Roland Nolte: How Sustainable is our Energy System?; János Sugár: If We’re So Good, Why Aren’t We Better?; J.A. Tillmann: The Forgetters; Deane Simpson & Jörg Stollmann: The future is now the future is Old; Ferda Kolatan: Instant Bodies (IBs); Peter Kerites: Cyber-Medical Applications Rock Japanese Voice Market on 2011 First Quarter; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Ulrich Gutmair: umma means communism; Martin Burckhardt; Open Letter; Ulrike Feser: expectance crisis; Beatriz Colomina: A House of Ill Repute; Daniela Comani: Beautiful Girl’s; Michaela Melián: A trip to 433 Eros; Rachel Baker: Witness Testimonial by Zabdiel Levi. Google VS The Unplugged Re-enactors Society; Zsófia Bán: Love Is All You Need?; Jason Danziger: Sing Sing; Aaron Mo: Artists and gentrification in London; Balázs Irimiás: Sutra of the Earth Goddess; Vera Tollmann: Again in Berlin; Kathrin Röggla: the right people to talk to; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: Save your past in the future!
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Katharina Sevic, Polyák Levente
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Silvan Linden
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
“If future norms of society will be dominated by the mantra of sustainability, convenience and se... more “If future norms of society will be dominated by the mantra of sustainability, convenience and security as opposed to liberté, egalité, fraternité, the question is where remains the space for the creative process of transgression” asked Rem Koolhaas during the opening of the Architecture Biennale in Venice in June 2014.
Koolhaas’ question is a call to reconsider anew the urban realm and it is adopted here as a general thematic framework to view and explore Berlin’s oldest park understood as a unique and idiosyncratic landscape of transgression. Tiergarten transgresses heritage, ecology, urbanism, and humanism, existing as a precious anomaly, a rogue model challenging questions for future environments in an ever expanding sea of urbanization. This transgression can become a key for a shift in established discourses about the city.
The conference aims to evaluate several aspects of urban spaces that question and expand the current discourse on sustainability, for instance unbridled plant growth and close proximity of species, the unmaintained, the incommensurable, the extraterritorial, the outlaw, the simultaneity of (contradicting) histories, to mention some.
The conference is divided into four thematic sections: 1) Transgressing Heritage; 2) Transgressing Ecology; 3) Transgressing Urbanism; 4) Transgressing Humanism
Participants: Alessandra Ponte (keynote), Fahim Amir, Michael Baers, Martin Conrads, Eva Simone Hayward, Gunnar Klack, Stefano Mancuso, Franziska Morlok, Sandra Parvu, Karin Reisinger, Luise Rellensmann, Chris Wilbert, Piero Zanini
Concept: Sandra Bartoli; organization: Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization TU Berlin Jörg Stollmann and Sandra Bartoli
When does a human-constructed place go beyond the human, and how necessary is this transgression?... more When does a human-constructed place go beyond the human, and how necessary is this transgression? To look at the built environment from the perspective of natural history allows one to explore the city as a system and construct of the natural and human together; furthermore it introduces the notion of the city (of tomorrow) as a producer of resources, and not as the machine of consumption we are used to assuming. In the logic consequence of the Anthropocene (the epoch of ecological collapse and mass extinction we currently live in), once the alleged antagonism between city and nature is dissolved, the urgency arises for models of constructed environments that conceive of human and more than human creatures as equal and mutually dependent.
Lecture 1: "Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression," 30/10/2017
Lecture 2: "Sun, Shit, Compost, and Air," 13/11/2017
Lecture 3: "Worlds of Animals and Humans," 27/11/2017
Lecture 4: "The City's Ecology: Dirt and the Garbage Tree," 11/12/2017
Lecture 5: "The City's Future Natural History," 13/03/2018
The text “From Tiergarten’s Plant Societies and Berlin’s Biotope Map to a Map of Neglect,” consid... more The text “From Tiergarten’s Plant Societies and Berlin’s Biotope Map to a Map of Neglect,” considers the relationship of Tiergarten and its plant communities as prerequisites for the park’s spatial di versity, which fosters many different species and use. Along with the fundamentally important biotope map of West Berlin, where the city is documented as an ecological space, the concept of a plan of loving neglect and indifference for the present city emerges. Published in Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression, edited by Sandra Bartoli and Jörg Stollmann (Park Books, Zürich 2019)
A critical text addressing ecological and social questions about two large public open spaces and... more A critical text addressing ecological and social questions about two large public open spaces and their recent history in Berlin: Tiergarten and Tempelhofer Feld, published in the book The Social (Re)Production of Architecture, edited by Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal
The first biotope map of West Berlin, published in 1984, together with the Species Protection Pro... more The first biotope map of West Berlin, published in 1984, together with the Species Protection Programme report, is a radical and far-sighted mandate for the understanding and planning of system cutting through West Berlin, to which the initiative was vehemently opposed. But the project was already jinxed in 1984, when the West Berlin city government failed to limit land use of the terrain to the programme of a park in the zoning plan, instead including all kinds of possible functions, among them housing development. The turning point came in 1994, when € 24 million were made available from the projects of nearby Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz and the Tiergarten tunnel in order to compensate for the loss of ecologically valuable green areas and these funds were secured for the realization of Park am Gleisdreieck. In 2005, after long negotiations, Deutsche Bahn/Vivico designated only 16 ha for the park while a large part of the remaining terrain was sold at maximum profit for rea...
"Tiergarten'"
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
in: Dialogic City - Berlin wird Berlin
Ed... more "Tiergarten'"
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
in: Dialogic City - Berlin wird Berlin
Eds.: Arno Brandlhuber, Florian Hertweck, Thomas Mayfried
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2015
Tiergarten, the oldest park (and forest) of Berlin, is analyzed in its spatial transformation and use in recent history, and presented as an urban model for the future, where the radical coexistence of human and non-human realms defines a deeper level of urbanity. The text, written with Silvan Linden, is part of a large collection of essays and interviews in the book.
Archaeologies of Sustainability - Licht Luft Scheisse Volume 1, 2020
Licht Luft Scheisse - Volume 1
Archaeologies of Sustainability
Edited by Sandra Bartoli, Silv... more Licht Luft Scheisse - Volume 1
Archaeologies of Sustainability
Edited by Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
The ecological question is not new. Over a hundred years ago, conceptual models and practices were developed in reaction to increasing industrialization and urbanization, which still resonate with our current ideas of sustainability. These approaches reflected not only a systematic understanding of the interactions between humans and the environment, and between nature and technology, but also the growing awareness of a modernity that is depriving itself of the basis of life. The exhibition catalog Archaeologies of Sustainability includes 171 contributions of images, documents, texts, and artworks from the last two centuries, which were shown at the nGbK during summer and autumn 2019.
With contributions by:
Tal Alon-Mozes, bankleer, Sandra Bartoli, Oliver Botar, David H. Haney, Martina Hanusová, Michael Klein & Sasha Pirker, Aglaia Konrad, Joachim Krausse, Silvan Linden, Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Tone L. Nyaas, Alessandra Ponte, Daniel Spruth, Tal Sterngast, Gitte Villesen & Joerg Franzbecker, Florian Wüst
640 pages, 289 b/w illustrations
Concept and editing:
Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Translations:
Ulrich Gutmair (EN-DE), David H. Haney (DE-EN), Kathrin Schömer (EN-DE)
Proofreading and copy editing: Johanna Roth (DE), Mark Soo (EN)
In the age of the Anthropocene, the concept of »nature« stands increasingly in opposition to the realization that we influence, alter, and destroy our environment in all spheres of animate and inanimate matter. Über Nature looks back on the homonymous exhibition of mainly artistic works that address our relationship to nature, the biosphere, and the non-human in the context of the Botanical Museum Berlin–and in this way, directly or indirectly deals also with the institution as a project of modernity.
With contributions by: Böhler & Orendt, Book & Hedén, Joerg Franzbecker, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Heidrun Hubenthal & Michael Wilkens, Katja Kaiser, Susanne Kriemann, Katarzyna Kukula, Kito Nedo, Kim Nekarda, Patricia Piccinini, New Territories_S/he, Gitte Villesen
Concept and editing: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Übersetzungen / Translations: Ulrich Gutmair (EN-DE), David H. Haney (DE-EN), Dorota Eckardt (PL-DE)
Proofreading and copy editing: Johanna Roth (DE), Mark Soo (EN)
200 pages, 113 b/w illustrations Graphic design: State
Tiergarten Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire), 2019
Tiergarten Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire)
TOC and Introduction
Ti... more Tiergarten Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire)
TOC and Introduction
Tiergarten — 210 hectares of forest in the middle of Berlin
and the oldest park in the city — is a place where many aspects of ecology, urbanism, heritage, daily culture, and politics are simultaneously present but also visible transgressed. Over time the park has become an island of anomalies that can be read as a radical expression of what is most urban and public in the city. Human history and natural history are here constructed together, serving as a model of the dissolving antagonism between nature an the built environment.
In Tiergarten, this transgression becomes a key to shifting established ways of talkling about the city.
Contributions by: FAHIM AMIR, MICHAEL BAERS, SANDRA BARTOLI, ELIZABETH FELICELLA, EVA HAYWARD, GUNNAR KLACK, STEFANO MANCUSO, SANDRA PARVU, ALESSANDRA PONTE, KARIN REISINGER, LUISE RELLENSMANN, CHRISTOPHER ROTH, JÖRG STOLLMANN, CHRIS WILBERT, YUKIKO, AND PIERO ZANINI
Editors: Sandra Bartoli and Jörg Stollmann
Copy editing and proofreading: Mark Soo
Design: Studio Yukiko
Publisher: Park Books Zürich
This book originates from the symposium “Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire),” held July 4, 2015 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
From 1982 to 1994, the architect Pierre Pichard, commissioned by UNDP/ UNESCO, documented the rui... more From 1982 to 1994, the architect Pierre Pichard, commissioned by UNDP/ UNESCO, documented the ruins and location of 2,834 pagodas, monasteries, and stupas built at the time of the empire of Bagan (11th to 13th century). Pichard’s work constitutes the first comprehensive survey of Bagan. This inventory, published by UNESCO and the École française d’Extrême-Orient in eight volumes from 1991 to 2001, was intended to comprise and secure the original historical substance of these monuments. Ironically, the inventory data and its archaeological reference map also provided a useful basis for the Adopt-a-Pagoda program launched by the military government of Myanmar in 1995. Up until 2011, the Department of Archaeology – under the behest of the generals – reconstructed more than 1,000 pagodas and built around 800 new ones. International conservation experts severely criticized this project, as it adopted a uniform scheme of building solutions when the historical evidence did not exist.
AG7 documents the current state of 15 monuments of the inventory and compares them to the photographs taken by Pichard. All monuments are located in the periphery of the large pentagonal Dhamma-yazika Pagoda, which can be viewed as the ideological starting point of the reconstruction wave. The fundaments of AG7 are two text contributions by Clara Rellensmann: a glossary that serves to give an overview of the context and an interview with the former Director-General of the Department of Archaeology who implemented the reconstruction and argues for the program to be appraised as a legitimate religious practice.
Editors: Clara Rellensmann, Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Proofreading: Mark Soo
Cover drawing: Lorenzo Pastorello
Layout: Lorenzo Pastorello, Büros für Konstruktivismus
Printing / solid earth, Berlin
Publisher: Büros für Konstruktivismus 2019
Sumet Jumsai is one of the most popular architects of Thailand. Perhaps less known is his work a... more Sumet Jumsai is one of the most popular architects of Thailand. Perhaps less known is his work as a painter and theoretician. His complex and diverse building practice is paradigmatic of fourty years of architecture history in Bangkok and beyond. A number of his buildings is unfortunatley currently endangered. In the course of a research about South-east Asian architecture, Sumet Jumsai became the focus of interest for a series of AG numbers. Two interviews with Sumet Jumsai ensued in 2013 and 2014 in Cambridge and Bangkok respectively, with the documentation of almost all his buildings in Bangkok. AG6 retraces moments of Sumet Jumsai biography, while concentrating on the documentation of the last days of his penthouse on top of the condominium complex he built on the Chalermnit Court near Sukhumvit road.
AG 5 – Siam Area / Former British Council / WWA, 2016
AG 5 documents the building of the former British Council in Bangkok, built in 1970 by architect... more AG 5 documents the building of the former British Council in Bangkok, built in 1970 by architect Sumet Jumsai. This issue concentrates on the upper floor of the building, occupied by fashion label WWA, with their cultivated taste for luxurious invisibility, and includes a short interview with the three founders of WWA. A reprinted essay by architect and urban planner Brian McGrath gives a broader picture of the Siam area, whose development accelerated at the time of the construction of the British Council, and is today the city’s major shopping district. McGrath, whose text can also be read as a plea for the renaissance of the water-bound infrastructure of Bangkok, has been living and teaching in Bangkok for more than fifteen years. His text “War, Trade and Desire: Urban Design and the Counter Public Spheres of Bangkok”, available online, is also highly recommended.
Architektur in Gebrauch AG4 - Tiergarten, Mar 10, 2014
210 hectares of forest in the middle of Berlin. Tiergarten, in all its variety of forms and trans... more 210 hectares of forest in the middle of Berlin. Tiergarten, in all its variety of forms and transformations in time, describes our relationship to the city. Tiergarten is simultaneous history, artifact and nature, and indifferent to the constraints of function and representation, is determined by pure contingency.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: adocs, Berlin 2014
#60-007 Tiergarten, eBook publisher: 60pages
Architektur in Gebrauch AG 3 – Mancunian Way, Mar 10, 2014
AG3 is dedicated to the Mancunian Way, the elevated Highway that runs through Manchester. It is o... more AG3 is dedicated to the Mancunian Way, the elevated Highway that runs through Manchester. It is one of the city’s strangest and most compelling modernist beauties, received the 1968 Concrete Society Award and is recommended for an outing by the Manchester Modernist Society on their website: “At first sight this might seem an odd even perverse choice, a mistake perhaps. Have we gone too far with this adoration of the brutal, this ugly ode to the car, all around pollutant and bête noir of the green lobby, destroyer of much of central Manchester’s original pre-loft dwelling citizenry?” The Mancunian Way is an intrinsic and accepted part of Manchester, planned like a singularity of progress, later to be included in a never fully realized major circulation ring of highways which would have separated the city centre from the rest. This is a strange creature, its engineered details and structure show sophistication and extend their peculiar aesthetics to the large sunken traffic islands under the belly of the beast, all provided with bike and pedestrians tube-like subways. These are real concrete gardens, savage and rough in their material quality, habitats of birds, hedgehogs, and other animals, and a likely evocation of J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island. Ballard’s 1974 novel finds its location in a sunken piece of land surrounded by highways whose description distinctively matches the intersection of the London Westway (A40) and the W Cross Route (A3220) designed by Maunsell & Partners, the same engineers who built the Mancunian Way. / AG3 also includes an interview with Richard Brook, Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture and member of Manchester Modernist Society, writing for their magazine The Modernist.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Richard Brook, Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Drawings: Simon Weihmann
Architektur in Gebrauch AG2 - Falkenhorst, Mar 10, 2014
AG 2 – Falkenhorst
Der Spielplatz Falkenhorst geht zurück auf eine Initiative der Anwohner de... more AG 2 – Falkenhorst
Der Spielplatz Falkenhorst geht zurück auf eine Initiative der Anwohner des gleichnamigen Wohnkomplexes am Stadtrand von Köln. Die von 1968-1970 errichtete Anlage besteht aus fünf Erschließungseinheiten mit 7-15 Geschossen, mit insgesamt 350 Wohnungen, die von dem privaten Bauunternehmer Joachim Hahlbeck als Eigentumswohnungen vermarktet wurden. Bei einem Kaufpreis von etwa 500DM/m2 waren die in Großtafelbauweise errichteten Wohnungen vor allem für junge Familien attraktiv, die in der Regel aus anderen Regionen in das stark wachsende, aber noch weitgehend dörflich geprägte Porz zogen.
Die Frustration der Anwohner über die städtebaulich isolierte und infrastrukturell unterversorgte Siedlung war groß. Als auf der Anliegerstraße wiederholt Kinder angefahren wurden, formierte sich im Sommer 1972 die Interessengemeinschaft Im Falkenhorst e.V.. Die Initiative forderte zunächst von der Stadt Porz erfolglos die Einrichtung einer Spielstraße und begann im Frühjahr 1973 schließlich selbst mit dem Bau eines Spielplatzes. Was folgt, ist die wundersame Verwandlung einer anonymen Nicht-Architektur in eine „Dorfgemeinschaft“, die zeitgemäß zarte Züge einer Kommune annimmt. Der Bau des Spielplatzes ist Motor und Zentrum der Gemeinschaft, die ab Anfang der 80er Jahre zerfällt. / AG2 also includes interviews with Klaus Gils and Dieter Baumgart, two founding members of the playground.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Silvan Linden, Sandra Bartoli, Klaus Gils, Dieter Baumgart
Drawings: Daniel Bruns
Architektur in Gebrauch AG 1 – Golden Lane, Mar 10, 2014
AG 1 documents a moment of the Golden Lane Estate in London. The story begins in an apartment on ... more AG 1 documents a moment of the Golden Lane Estate in London. The story begins in an apartment on the 13th floor of Great Arthur House. The raw and ephemeral beauty of this small apartment, found in a stripped down in-between owners stage of renovation, is amplified by its bare design structure; this is an acute elaboration of resources that while amplifying qualities such as openness, accessibility and the all encompassing penetration of light at building and unit level, it becomes also an instance of the architecture itself and 50 years of use carrying the entire estate.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Drawings: Simon Weihmann
La Zona - Index is a publication produced as a supplement to the eponymous exhibition at the nGbK... more La Zona - Index is a publication produced as a supplement to the eponymous exhibition at the nGbK Berlin. The book explores different categories of "zone": contaminated, decontaminated, post-contaminated, exploited, protected and ephemeral. The initial reference is the zone in the novel Roadside Picnic by the Strugatzky brothers and in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker - a territory that is at once enclosed and abandoned, deadly and healing, unpredictable, and always changing. La Zona - Index is a lexicon that freely associates aspects of "the frontal attack to all conditions of life" and constructs a science fiction narrative out of the polymorphic reality of the "zone" and the fractured idea of progress and enlightenment. Dangerous and remote, deterring and attractive as the zone can be it is a permanent part of our living environment and imaginary world.
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Ulrike Feser, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Publisher: nGbK, Berlin 2012;
English edition – ISBN: 978-3-938515-49-5;
German edition – ISBN: 978-3-938515-48-8
Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv p... more Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv partially adopts the role of an utopian operation in the format of a print magazine. Each one of the three issues of the magazine carries a different date from the future (2011, 2036 and 2048) and was pre-released in the summer of 2007. These issues are in fact an advance from the future. All contributions are conceived from a future perspective encouraging the emergence of a different reality based on the present circumstances.
2048
No. 247
Official, Institutional, state terrorist vision: the utterly and
ultimately planned: utopia, re-appropriation, coercion, good,
oppression, paradise, imposed, eschatology, nature, heroism, terrible beauty, pleasure, disturbing forces, violence, law/shock.
Chapters: Death, Life, Sex
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2503-6), 217 Pages
Luc Merx; Hanna Cheng Maas Mandlova & Laurlene Gwk Nganeland: Report on the Visit of the Anthropological Task Force to Kov; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: tccp opens new recollecting yard; Ingo Niermann: The Return of the Pyramid; Terre Thaemlitz: 105,120,000'33" A Sound Score In Two Movements; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Velimir Abramovic: Ontology of Time; a42.org: Kimilsungia; J. A. Tillmann: The Advent of Avatars; Richard W. Wilkie: Time Realities and Memories of Place; János Sugár: The Golden Age; Martin Conrads: Letter to the Editors; SKART: (What / For Whom / How) Hands Don’t Fear!!!; Maja and Reuben Fowkes: The Art of Post-Ecological Subjectivities; zeitguised: faller world model, biodigital; Hilmar Schmundt: Future instead of Origin or ...; Detlev Arendt: “Harmonised Partnership” from an Evolutive Perspective; Erik Bünger: Have I seen your face before?; Ferenc Gerlóczy: Communism as Follow-up Care; Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto; Iassen Markov & Giulia Tubelli: Verwaltungshefte Januar.
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic.
Logo Design: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Sandra Bartoli
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv p... more Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv partially adopts the role of an utopian operation in the format of a print magazine. Each one of the three issues of the magazine carries a date from the future (2011, 2036 and 2048) and was pre-released in the summer of 2007. These issues are in fact an advance from the future. All contributions are conceived from a future perspective encouraging the emergence of a different reality based on the present circumstances.
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2502-9), 209 Pages
Intercultural Orientation group and the RandomRoutines; Balázs Bodó: Diary; László Garaczi: 1 brain; János Sugár: A New Celebrity Arrives; Benedek Jávor: Notes from the house of past; Stephan Trüby: ESWTNJB – Notes for a conspiracy-theoretical architecture novel; Elizabeth Felicella: Rochester, Minnesota; Sebastian Cichocki: Bloody Exhibition Opening; J. A. Tillmann: hyaena reclama; Ines Schaber: Radio Activity; Reiner Maria Matysik: sexual vegetation; Róbert Szabó-Benke: Konyi Shiva showing; Ferenc Kömlödi: Transhuman Tales; Carolee Schneemann: Parts of a Body House; Far Severö Sapirico: YESTEM (excerpt); LIGNA: read carefully; Guy van Belle: views of the decade; Ronald Düker: Ventoux protests turn violent; Yona Friedman: A museum of the 21st century, in Paris; Levente Polyák: Shelves – The Discovery of Yona Friedman’s A Museum of the 21st Century, in Paris; McKenzie Wark: Between times; Charles Holland: it’s a small world.
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic.
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Katarina Sevic
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv p... more Die Planung / A Terv is a magazine for the utilization of the future, now. Die Planung / A Terv partially adopts the role of an utopian operation in the format of a print magazine. Each one of the three issues of the magazine carries a date from the future, 2011, 2036 and 2048, and was pre-released in 2007. These issues are in fact an advance from the future. All contributions are conceived from a future perspective encouraging the emergence of a different reality based on the present circumstances.
2011
No. 25
Trend-oriented, ridiculous, catastrophic, hyper-future (sleek, shiny, flamboyant), camp, out of control, imminence (warfare, fossil energy), delayed (reaction), green at loss, cataclysmic.
Chapters: Life, Sex, Death
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2501-2), 183 Pages
Aspassia Kouzoupi: Perpetual Entelechy; Roland Nolte: How Sustainable is our Energy System?; János Sugár: If We’re So Good, Why Aren’t We Better?; J.A. Tillmann: The Forgetters; Deane Simpson & Jörg Stollmann: The future is now the future is Old; Ferda Kolatan: Instant Bodies (IBs); Peter Kerites: Cyber-Medical Applications Rock Japanese Voice Market on 2011 First Quarter; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Ulrich Gutmair: umma means communism; Martin Burckhardt; Open Letter; Ulrike Feser: expectance crisis; Beatriz Colomina: A House of Ill Repute; Daniela Comani: Beautiful Girl’s; Michaela Melián: A trip to 433 Eros; Rachel Baker: Witness Testimonial by Zabdiel Levi. Google VS The Unplugged Re-enactors Society; Zsófia Bán: Love Is All You Need?; Jason Danziger: Sing Sing; Aaron Mo: Artists and gentrification in London; Balázs Irimiás: Sutra of the Earth Goddess; Vera Tollmann: Again in Berlin; Kathrin Röggla: the right people to talk to; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: Save your past in the future!
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Katharina Sevic, Polyák Levente
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Silvan Linden
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
“If future norms of society will be dominated by the mantra of sustainability, convenience and se... more “If future norms of society will be dominated by the mantra of sustainability, convenience and security as opposed to liberté, egalité, fraternité, the question is where remains the space for the creative process of transgression” asked Rem Koolhaas during the opening of the Architecture Biennale in Venice in June 2014.
Koolhaas’ question is a call to reconsider anew the urban realm and it is adopted here as a general thematic framework to view and explore Berlin’s oldest park understood as a unique and idiosyncratic landscape of transgression. Tiergarten transgresses heritage, ecology, urbanism, and humanism, existing as a precious anomaly, a rogue model challenging questions for future environments in an ever expanding sea of urbanization. This transgression can become a key for a shift in established discourses about the city.
The conference aims to evaluate several aspects of urban spaces that question and expand the current discourse on sustainability, for instance unbridled plant growth and close proximity of species, the unmaintained, the incommensurable, the extraterritorial, the outlaw, the simultaneity of (contradicting) histories, to mention some.
The conference is divided into four thematic sections: 1) Transgressing Heritage; 2) Transgressing Ecology; 3) Transgressing Urbanism; 4) Transgressing Humanism
Participants: Alessandra Ponte (keynote), Fahim Amir, Michael Baers, Martin Conrads, Eva Simone Hayward, Gunnar Klack, Stefano Mancuso, Franziska Morlok, Sandra Parvu, Karin Reisinger, Luise Rellensmann, Chris Wilbert, Piero Zanini
Concept: Sandra Bartoli; organization: Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization TU Berlin Jörg Stollmann and Sandra Bartoli
When does a human-constructed place go beyond the human, and how necessary is this transgression?... more When does a human-constructed place go beyond the human, and how necessary is this transgression? To look at the built environment from the perspective of natural history allows one to explore the city as a system and construct of the natural and human together; furthermore it introduces the notion of the city (of tomorrow) as a producer of resources, and not as the machine of consumption we are used to assuming. In the logic consequence of the Anthropocene (the epoch of ecological collapse and mass extinction we currently live in), once the alleged antagonism between city and nature is dissolved, the urgency arises for models of constructed environments that conceive of human and more than human creatures as equal and mutually dependent.
Lecture 1: "Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression," 30/10/2017
Lecture 2: "Sun, Shit, Compost, and Air," 13/11/2017
Lecture 3: "Worlds of Animals and Humans," 27/11/2017
Lecture 4: "The City's Ecology: Dirt and the Garbage Tree," 11/12/2017
Lecture 5: "The City's Future Natural History," 13/03/2018
The text “From Tiergarten’s Plant Societies and Berlin’s Biotope Map to a Map of Neglect,” consid... more The text “From Tiergarten’s Plant Societies and Berlin’s Biotope Map to a Map of Neglect,” considers the relationship of Tiergarten and its plant communities as prerequisites for the park’s spatial di versity, which fosters many different species and use. Along with the fundamentally important biotope map of West Berlin, where the city is documented as an ecological space, the concept of a plan of loving neglect and indifference for the present city emerges. Published in Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression, edited by Sandra Bartoli and Jörg Stollmann (Park Books, Zürich 2019)
A critical text addressing ecological and social questions about two large public open spaces and... more A critical text addressing ecological and social questions about two large public open spaces and their recent history in Berlin: Tiergarten and Tempelhofer Feld, published in the book The Social (Re)Production of Architecture, edited by Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal
The first biotope map of West Berlin, published in 1984, together with the Species Protection Pro... more The first biotope map of West Berlin, published in 1984, together with the Species Protection Programme report, is a radical and far-sighted mandate for the understanding and planning of system cutting through West Berlin, to which the initiative was vehemently opposed. But the project was already jinxed in 1984, when the West Berlin city government failed to limit land use of the terrain to the programme of a park in the zoning plan, instead including all kinds of possible functions, among them housing development. The turning point came in 1994, when € 24 million were made available from the projects of nearby Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz and the Tiergarten tunnel in order to compensate for the loss of ecologically valuable green areas and these funds were secured for the realization of Park am Gleisdreieck. In 2005, after long negotiations, Deutsche Bahn/Vivico designated only 16 ha for the park while a large part of the remaining terrain was sold at maximum profit for rea...
"Tiergarten'"
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
in: Dialogic City - Berlin wird Berlin
Ed... more "Tiergarten'"
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
in: Dialogic City - Berlin wird Berlin
Eds.: Arno Brandlhuber, Florian Hertweck, Thomas Mayfried
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2015
Tiergarten, the oldest park (and forest) of Berlin, is analyzed in its spatial transformation and use in recent history, and presented as an urban model for the future, where the radical coexistence of human and non-human realms defines a deeper level of urbanity. The text, written with Silvan Linden, is part of a large collection of essays and interviews in the book.
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Archaeologies of Sustainability
Edited by Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
The ecological question is not new. Over a hundred years ago, conceptual models and practices were developed in reaction to increasing industrialization and urbanization, which still resonate with our current ideas of sustainability. These approaches reflected not only a systematic understanding of the interactions between humans and the environment, and between nature and technology, but also the growing awareness of a modernity that is depriving itself of the basis of life. The exhibition catalog Archaeologies of Sustainability includes 171 contributions of images, documents, texts, and artworks from the last two centuries, which were shown at the nGbK during summer and autumn 2019.
With contributions by:
Tal Alon-Mozes, bankleer, Sandra Bartoli, Oliver Botar, David H. Haney, Martina Hanusová, Michael Klein & Sasha Pirker, Aglaia Konrad, Joachim Krausse, Silvan Linden, Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Tone L. Nyaas, Alessandra Ponte, Daniel Spruth, Tal Sterngast, Gitte Villesen & Joerg Franzbecker, Florian Wüst
640 pages, 289 b/w illustrations
Concept and editing:
Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Translations:
Ulrich Gutmair (EN-DE), David H. Haney (DE-EN), Kathrin Schömer (EN-DE)
Proofreading and copy editing: Johanna Roth (DE), Mark Soo (EN)
Graphic design: State
adocs Hamburg
ISBN: 978-3-943253-33-7
Über Nature
Edited by Sandra Bartoli, Kathrin Grotz, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst, Patricia Rahemipour
In the age of the Anthropocene, the concept of »nature« stands
increasingly in opposition to the realization that we influence, alter, and destroy our environment in all spheres of animate and inanimate matter. Über Nature looks back on the homonymous exhibition of mainly artistic works that address our relationship to nature, the biosphere, and the non-human in the context of the Botanical Museum Berlin–and in this way, directly or indirectly deals also with the institution as a project of modernity.
With contributions by:
Böhler & Orendt, Book & Hedén, Joerg Franzbecker, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Heidrun Hubenthal & Michael Wilkens, Katja Kaiser, Susanne Kriemann, Katarzyna Kukula, Kito Nedo, Kim Nekarda, Patricia Piccinini, New Territories_S/he, Gitte Villesen
Concept and editing:
Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Übersetzungen / Translations:
Ulrich Gutmair (EN-DE), David H. Haney (DE-EN), Dorota Eckardt (PL-DE)
Proofreading and copy editing: Johanna Roth (DE), Mark Soo (EN)
200 pages, 113 b/w illustrations
Graphic design: State
adocs Hamburg
ISBN: 978-3-943253-33-7
TOC and Introduction
Tiergarten — 210 hectares of forest in the middle of Berlin
and the oldest park in the city — is a place where many aspects of ecology, urbanism, heritage, daily culture, and politics are simultaneously present but also visible transgressed. Over time the park has become an island of anomalies that can be read as a radical expression of what is most urban and public in the city. Human history and natural history are here constructed together, serving as a model of the dissolving antagonism between nature an the built environment.
In Tiergarten, this transgression becomes a key to shifting established ways of talkling about the city.
Contributions by: FAHIM AMIR, MICHAEL BAERS, SANDRA BARTOLI, ELIZABETH FELICELLA, EVA HAYWARD, GUNNAR KLACK, STEFANO MANCUSO, SANDRA PARVU, ALESSANDRA PONTE, KARIN REISINGER, LUISE RELLENSMANN, CHRISTOPHER ROTH, JÖRG STOLLMANN, CHRIS WILBERT, YUKIKO, AND PIERO ZANINI
Editors: Sandra Bartoli and Jörg Stollmann
Copy editing and proofreading: Mark Soo
Design: Studio Yukiko
Publisher: Park Books Zürich
This book originates from the symposium “Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire),” held July 4, 2015 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
ISBN: 9783038600336
AG7 documents the current state of 15 monuments of the inventory and compares them to the photographs taken by Pichard. All monuments are located in the periphery of the large pentagonal Dhamma-yazika Pagoda, which can be viewed as the ideological starting point of the reconstruction wave. The fundaments of AG7 are two text contributions by Clara Rellensmann: a glossary that serves to give an overview of the context and an interview with the former Director-General of the Department of Archaeology who implemented the reconstruction and argues for the program to be appraised as a legitimate religious practice.
Editors: Clara Rellensmann, Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Proofreading: Mark Soo
Cover drawing: Lorenzo Pastorello
Layout: Lorenzo Pastorello, Büros für Konstruktivismus
Printing / solid earth, Berlin
Publisher: Büros für Konstruktivismus 2019
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: adocs, Berlin 2014
#60-007 Tiergarten, eBook publisher: 60pages
Author: Sandra Bartoli
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Richard Brook, Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Drawings: Simon Weihmann
Der Spielplatz Falkenhorst geht zurück auf eine Initiative der Anwohner des gleichnamigen Wohnkomplexes am Stadtrand von Köln. Die von 1968-1970 errichtete Anlage besteht aus fünf Erschließungseinheiten mit 7-15 Geschossen, mit insgesamt 350 Wohnungen, die von dem privaten Bauunternehmer Joachim Hahlbeck als Eigentumswohnungen vermarktet wurden. Bei einem Kaufpreis von etwa 500DM/m2 waren die in Großtafelbauweise errichteten Wohnungen vor allem für junge Familien attraktiv, die in der Regel aus anderen Regionen in das stark wachsende, aber noch weitgehend dörflich geprägte Porz zogen.
Die Frustration der Anwohner über die städtebaulich isolierte und infrastrukturell unterversorgte Siedlung war groß. Als auf der Anliegerstraße wiederholt Kinder angefahren wurden, formierte sich im Sommer 1972 die Interessengemeinschaft Im Falkenhorst e.V.. Die Initiative forderte zunächst von der Stadt Porz erfolglos die Einrichtung einer Spielstraße und begann im Frühjahr 1973 schließlich selbst mit dem Bau eines Spielplatzes. Was folgt, ist die wundersame Verwandlung einer anonymen Nicht-Architektur in eine „Dorfgemeinschaft“, die zeitgemäß zarte Züge einer Kommune annimmt. Der Bau des Spielplatzes ist Motor und Zentrum der Gemeinschaft, die ab Anfang der 80er Jahre zerfällt. / AG2 also includes interviews with Klaus Gils and Dieter Baumgart, two founding members of the playground.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Silvan Linden, Sandra Bartoli, Klaus Gils, Dieter Baumgart
Drawings: Daniel Bruns
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Drawings: Simon Weihmann
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Ulrike Feser, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Publisher: nGbK, Berlin 2012;
English edition – ISBN: 978-3-938515-49-5;
German edition – ISBN: 978-3-938515-48-8
2048
No. 247
Official, Institutional, state terrorist vision: the utterly and
ultimately planned: utopia, re-appropriation, coercion, good,
oppression, paradise, imposed, eschatology, nature, heroism, terrible beauty, pleasure, disturbing forces, violence, law/shock.
Chapters: Death, Life, Sex
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2503-6), 217 Pages
Luc Merx; Hanna Cheng Maas Mandlova & Laurlene Gwk Nganeland: Report on the Visit of the Anthropological Task Force to Kov; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: tccp opens new recollecting yard; Ingo Niermann: The Return of the Pyramid; Terre Thaemlitz: 105,120,000'33" A Sound Score In Two Movements; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Velimir Abramovic: Ontology of Time; a42.org: Kimilsungia; J. A. Tillmann: The Advent of Avatars; Richard W. Wilkie: Time Realities and Memories of Place; János Sugár: The Golden Age; Martin Conrads: Letter to the Editors; SKART: (What / For Whom / How) Hands Don’t Fear!!!; Maja and Reuben Fowkes: The Art of Post-Ecological Subjectivities; zeitguised: faller world model, biodigital; Hilmar Schmundt: Future instead of Origin or ...; Detlev Arendt: “Harmonised Partnership” from an Evolutive Perspective; Erik Bünger: Have I seen your face before?; Ferenc Gerlóczy: Communism as Follow-up Care; Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto; Iassen Markov & Giulia Tubelli: Verwaltungshefte Januar.
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic.
Logo Design: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Sandra Bartoli
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
2036
No. 117
Unofficial, resistance, complete freedom (postmodern understanding of dystopia), release, supernatural (breathing cities, organicism, symbiosis), pain, spared, romantic, illegal knowledge, energy, dream. Chapters: Sex, Death, Life
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2502-9), 209 Pages
Intercultural Orientation group and the RandomRoutines; Balázs Bodó: Diary; László Garaczi: 1 brain; János Sugár: A New Celebrity Arrives; Benedek Jávor: Notes from the house of past; Stephan Trüby: ESWTNJB – Notes for a conspiracy-theoretical architecture novel; Elizabeth Felicella: Rochester, Minnesota; Sebastian Cichocki: Bloody Exhibition Opening; J. A. Tillmann: hyaena reclama; Ines Schaber: Radio Activity; Reiner Maria Matysik: sexual vegetation; Róbert Szabó-Benke: Konyi Shiva showing; Ferenc Kömlödi: Transhuman Tales; Carolee Schneemann: Parts of a Body House; Far Severö Sapirico: YESTEM (excerpt); LIGNA: read carefully; Guy van Belle: views of the decade; Ronald Düker: Ventoux protests turn violent; Yona Friedman: A museum of the 21st century, in Paris; Levente Polyák: Shelves – The Discovery of Yona Friedman’s A Museum of the 21st Century, in Paris; McKenzie Wark: Between times; Charles Holland: it’s a small world.
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic.
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Katarina Sevic
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
2011
No. 25
Trend-oriented, ridiculous, catastrophic, hyper-future (sleek, shiny, flamboyant), camp, out of control, imminence (warfare, fossil energy), delayed (reaction), green at loss, cataclysmic.
Chapters: Life, Sex, Death
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2501-2), 183 Pages
Aspassia Kouzoupi: Perpetual Entelechy; Roland Nolte: How Sustainable is our Energy System?; János Sugár: If We’re So Good, Why Aren’t We Better?; J.A. Tillmann: The Forgetters; Deane Simpson & Jörg Stollmann: The future is now the future is Old; Ferda Kolatan: Instant Bodies (IBs); Peter Kerites: Cyber-Medical Applications Rock Japanese Voice Market on 2011 First Quarter; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Ulrich Gutmair: umma means communism; Martin Burckhardt; Open Letter; Ulrike Feser: expectance crisis; Beatriz Colomina: A House of Ill Repute; Daniela Comani: Beautiful Girl’s; Michaela Melián: A trip to 433 Eros; Rachel Baker: Witness Testimonial by Zabdiel Levi. Google VS The Unplugged Re-enactors Society; Zsófia Bán: Love Is All You Need?; Jason Danziger: Sing Sing; Aaron Mo: Artists and gentrification in London; Balázs Irimiás: Sutra of the Earth Goddess; Vera Tollmann: Again in Berlin; Kathrin Röggla: the right people to talk to; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: Save your past in the future!
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Katharina Sevic, Polyák Levente
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Silvan Linden
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
Talks by Sandra Bartoli
Koolhaas’ question is a call to reconsider anew the urban realm and it is adopted here as a general thematic framework to view and explore Berlin’s oldest park understood as a unique and idiosyncratic landscape of transgression. Tiergarten transgresses heritage, ecology, urbanism, and humanism, existing as a precious anomaly, a rogue model challenging questions for future environments in an ever expanding sea of urbanization. This transgression can become a key for a shift in established discourses about the city.
The conference aims to evaluate several aspects of urban spaces that question and expand the current discourse on sustainability, for instance unbridled plant growth and close proximity of species, the unmaintained, the incommensurable, the extraterritorial, the outlaw, the simultaneity of (contradicting) histories, to mention some.
The conference is divided into four thematic sections: 1) Transgressing Heritage; 2) Transgressing Ecology; 3) Transgressing Urbanism; 4) Transgressing Humanism
Participants: Alessandra Ponte (keynote), Fahim Amir, Michael Baers, Martin Conrads, Eva Simone Hayward, Gunnar Klack, Stefano Mancuso, Franziska Morlok, Sandra Parvu, Karin Reisinger, Luise Rellensmann, Chris Wilbert, Piero Zanini
Concept: Sandra Bartoli; organization: Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization TU Berlin Jörg Stollmann and Sandra Bartoli
Lecture 1: "Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression," 30/10/2017
Lecture 2: "Sun, Shit, Compost, and Air," 13/11/2017
Lecture 3: "Worlds of Animals and Humans," 27/11/2017
Lecture 4: "The City's Ecology: Dirt and the Garbage Tree," 11/12/2017
Lecture 5: "The City's Future Natural History," 13/03/2018
Papers by Sandra Bartoli
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
in: Dialogic City - Berlin wird Berlin
Eds.: Arno Brandlhuber, Florian Hertweck, Thomas Mayfried
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2015
Tiergarten, the oldest park (and forest) of Berlin, is analyzed in its spatial transformation and use in recent history, and presented as an urban model for the future, where the radical coexistence of human and non-human realms defines a deeper level of urbanity. The text, written with Silvan Linden, is part of a large collection of essays and interviews in the book.
Archaeologies of Sustainability
Edited by Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
The ecological question is not new. Over a hundred years ago, conceptual models and practices were developed in reaction to increasing industrialization and urbanization, which still resonate with our current ideas of sustainability. These approaches reflected not only a systematic understanding of the interactions between humans and the environment, and between nature and technology, but also the growing awareness of a modernity that is depriving itself of the basis of life. The exhibition catalog Archaeologies of Sustainability includes 171 contributions of images, documents, texts, and artworks from the last two centuries, which were shown at the nGbK during summer and autumn 2019.
With contributions by:
Tal Alon-Mozes, bankleer, Sandra Bartoli, Oliver Botar, David H. Haney, Martina Hanusová, Michael Klein & Sasha Pirker, Aglaia Konrad, Joachim Krausse, Silvan Linden, Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Tone L. Nyaas, Alessandra Ponte, Daniel Spruth, Tal Sterngast, Gitte Villesen & Joerg Franzbecker, Florian Wüst
640 pages, 289 b/w illustrations
Concept and editing:
Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Translations:
Ulrich Gutmair (EN-DE), David H. Haney (DE-EN), Kathrin Schömer (EN-DE)
Proofreading and copy editing: Johanna Roth (DE), Mark Soo (EN)
Graphic design: State
adocs Hamburg
ISBN: 978-3-943253-33-7
Über Nature
Edited by Sandra Bartoli, Kathrin Grotz, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst, Patricia Rahemipour
In the age of the Anthropocene, the concept of »nature« stands
increasingly in opposition to the realization that we influence, alter, and destroy our environment in all spheres of animate and inanimate matter. Über Nature looks back on the homonymous exhibition of mainly artistic works that address our relationship to nature, the biosphere, and the non-human in the context of the Botanical Museum Berlin–and in this way, directly or indirectly deals also with the institution as a project of modernity.
With contributions by:
Böhler & Orendt, Book & Hedén, Joerg Franzbecker, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Heidrun Hubenthal & Michael Wilkens, Katja Kaiser, Susanne Kriemann, Katarzyna Kukula, Kito Nedo, Kim Nekarda, Patricia Piccinini, New Territories_S/he, Gitte Villesen
Concept and editing:
Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Übersetzungen / Translations:
Ulrich Gutmair (EN-DE), David H. Haney (DE-EN), Dorota Eckardt (PL-DE)
Proofreading and copy editing: Johanna Roth (DE), Mark Soo (EN)
200 pages, 113 b/w illustrations
Graphic design: State
adocs Hamburg
ISBN: 978-3-943253-33-7
TOC and Introduction
Tiergarten — 210 hectares of forest in the middle of Berlin
and the oldest park in the city — is a place where many aspects of ecology, urbanism, heritage, daily culture, and politics are simultaneously present but also visible transgressed. Over time the park has become an island of anomalies that can be read as a radical expression of what is most urban and public in the city. Human history and natural history are here constructed together, serving as a model of the dissolving antagonism between nature an the built environment.
In Tiergarten, this transgression becomes a key to shifting established ways of talkling about the city.
Contributions by: FAHIM AMIR, MICHAEL BAERS, SANDRA BARTOLI, ELIZABETH FELICELLA, EVA HAYWARD, GUNNAR KLACK, STEFANO MANCUSO, SANDRA PARVU, ALESSANDRA PONTE, KARIN REISINGER, LUISE RELLENSMANN, CHRISTOPHER ROTH, JÖRG STOLLMANN, CHRIS WILBERT, YUKIKO, AND PIERO ZANINI
Editors: Sandra Bartoli and Jörg Stollmann
Copy editing and proofreading: Mark Soo
Design: Studio Yukiko
Publisher: Park Books Zürich
This book originates from the symposium “Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression (This Obscure Object of Desire),” held July 4, 2015 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
ISBN: 9783038600336
AG7 documents the current state of 15 monuments of the inventory and compares them to the photographs taken by Pichard. All monuments are located in the periphery of the large pentagonal Dhamma-yazika Pagoda, which can be viewed as the ideological starting point of the reconstruction wave. The fundaments of AG7 are two text contributions by Clara Rellensmann: a glossary that serves to give an overview of the context and an interview with the former Director-General of the Department of Archaeology who implemented the reconstruction and argues for the program to be appraised as a legitimate religious practice.
Editors: Clara Rellensmann, Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Proofreading: Mark Soo
Cover drawing: Lorenzo Pastorello
Layout: Lorenzo Pastorello, Büros für Konstruktivismus
Printing / solid earth, Berlin
Publisher: Büros für Konstruktivismus 2019
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: adocs, Berlin 2014
#60-007 Tiergarten, eBook publisher: 60pages
Author: Sandra Bartoli
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Richard Brook, Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Drawings: Simon Weihmann
Der Spielplatz Falkenhorst geht zurück auf eine Initiative der Anwohner des gleichnamigen Wohnkomplexes am Stadtrand von Köln. Die von 1968-1970 errichtete Anlage besteht aus fünf Erschließungseinheiten mit 7-15 Geschossen, mit insgesamt 350 Wohnungen, die von dem privaten Bauunternehmer Joachim Hahlbeck als Eigentumswohnungen vermarktet wurden. Bei einem Kaufpreis von etwa 500DM/m2 waren die in Großtafelbauweise errichteten Wohnungen vor allem für junge Familien attraktiv, die in der Regel aus anderen Regionen in das stark wachsende, aber noch weitgehend dörflich geprägte Porz zogen.
Die Frustration der Anwohner über die städtebaulich isolierte und infrastrukturell unterversorgte Siedlung war groß. Als auf der Anliegerstraße wiederholt Kinder angefahren wurden, formierte sich im Sommer 1972 die Interessengemeinschaft Im Falkenhorst e.V.. Die Initiative forderte zunächst von der Stadt Porz erfolglos die Einrichtung einer Spielstraße und begann im Frühjahr 1973 schließlich selbst mit dem Bau eines Spielplatzes. Was folgt, ist die wundersame Verwandlung einer anonymen Nicht-Architektur in eine „Dorfgemeinschaft“, die zeitgemäß zarte Züge einer Kommune annimmt. Der Bau des Spielplatzes ist Motor und Zentrum der Gemeinschaft, die ab Anfang der 80er Jahre zerfällt. / AG2 also includes interviews with Klaus Gils and Dieter Baumgart, two founding members of the playground.
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Silvan Linden, Sandra Bartoli, Klaus Gils, Dieter Baumgart
Drawings: Daniel Bruns
Architektur in Gebrauch magazine series
Publisher: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin 2014
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
Drawings: Simon Weihmann
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Ulrike Feser, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst
Publisher: nGbK, Berlin 2012;
English edition – ISBN: 978-3-938515-49-5;
German edition – ISBN: 978-3-938515-48-8
2048
No. 247
Official, Institutional, state terrorist vision: the utterly and
ultimately planned: utopia, re-appropriation, coercion, good,
oppression, paradise, imposed, eschatology, nature, heroism, terrible beauty, pleasure, disturbing forces, violence, law/shock.
Chapters: Death, Life, Sex
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2503-6), 217 Pages
Luc Merx; Hanna Cheng Maas Mandlova & Laurlene Gwk Nganeland: Report on the Visit of the Anthropological Task Force to Kov; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: tccp opens new recollecting yard; Ingo Niermann: The Return of the Pyramid; Terre Thaemlitz: 105,120,000'33" A Sound Score In Two Movements; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Velimir Abramovic: Ontology of Time; a42.org: Kimilsungia; J. A. Tillmann: The Advent of Avatars; Richard W. Wilkie: Time Realities and Memories of Place; János Sugár: The Golden Age; Martin Conrads: Letter to the Editors; SKART: (What / For Whom / How) Hands Don’t Fear!!!; Maja and Reuben Fowkes: The Art of Post-Ecological Subjectivities; zeitguised: faller world model, biodigital; Hilmar Schmundt: Future instead of Origin or ...; Detlev Arendt: “Harmonised Partnership” from an Evolutive Perspective; Erik Bünger: Have I seen your face before?; Ferenc Gerlóczy: Communism as Follow-up Care; Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto; Iassen Markov & Giulia Tubelli: Verwaltungshefte Januar.
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic.
Logo Design: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Sandra Bartoli
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
2036
No. 117
Unofficial, resistance, complete freedom (postmodern understanding of dystopia), release, supernatural (breathing cities, organicism, symbiosis), pain, spared, romantic, illegal knowledge, energy, dream. Chapters: Sex, Death, Life
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2502-9), 209 Pages
Intercultural Orientation group and the RandomRoutines; Balázs Bodó: Diary; László Garaczi: 1 brain; János Sugár: A New Celebrity Arrives; Benedek Jávor: Notes from the house of past; Stephan Trüby: ESWTNJB – Notes for a conspiracy-theoretical architecture novel; Elizabeth Felicella: Rochester, Minnesota; Sebastian Cichocki: Bloody Exhibition Opening; J. A. Tillmann: hyaena reclama; Ines Schaber: Radio Activity; Reiner Maria Matysik: sexual vegetation; Róbert Szabó-Benke: Konyi Shiva showing; Ferenc Kömlödi: Transhuman Tales; Carolee Schneemann: Parts of a Body House; Far Severö Sapirico: YESTEM (excerpt); LIGNA: read carefully; Guy van Belle: views of the decade; Ronald Düker: Ventoux protests turn violent; Yona Friedman: A museum of the 21st century, in Paris; Levente Polyák: Shelves – The Discovery of Yona Friedman’s A Museum of the 21st Century, in Paris; McKenzie Wark: Between times; Charles Holland: it’s a small world.
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Sevic.
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Katarina Sevic
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
2011
No. 25
Trend-oriented, ridiculous, catastrophic, hyper-future (sleek, shiny, flamboyant), camp, out of control, imminence (warfare, fossil energy), delayed (reaction), green at loss, cataclysmic.
Chapters: Life, Sex, Death
(ISBN: 978-963-06-2501-2), 183 Pages
Aspassia Kouzoupi: Perpetual Entelechy; Roland Nolte: How Sustainable is our Energy System?; János Sugár: If We’re So Good, Why Aren’t We Better?; J.A. Tillmann: The Forgetters; Deane Simpson & Jörg Stollmann: The future is now the future is Old; Ferda Kolatan: Instant Bodies (IBs); Peter Kerites: Cyber-Medical Applications Rock Japanese Voice Market on 2011 First Quarter; László Garaczi: 1 brain; Ulrich Gutmair: umma means communism; Martin Burckhardt; Open Letter; Ulrike Feser: expectance crisis; Beatriz Colomina: A House of Ill Repute; Daniela Comani: Beautiful Girl’s; Michaela Melián: A trip to 433 Eros; Rachel Baker: Witness Testimonial by Zabdiel Levi. Google VS The Unplugged Re-enactors Society; Zsófia Bán: Love Is All You Need?; Jason Danziger: Sing Sing; Aaron Mo: Artists and gentrification in London; Balázs Irimiás: Sutra of the Earth Goddess; Vera Tollmann: Again in Berlin; Kathrin Röggla: the right people to talk to; Intercultural Orientation and the RandomRoutines: Save your past in the future!
Editors: Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Katharina Sevic, Polyák Levente
Logo Design & Basic Typographical Concept: Anna Mándoki
Cover & Layout: Silvan Linden
The project is funded by Bipolar German-Hungarian Cultural Projects (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation) and supported by the Secretariat for Futures Studies (Berlin and Bonn) and nextlab (Budapest).
Die Planung / A Terv is published in Berlin and Budapest.
Koolhaas’ question is a call to reconsider anew the urban realm and it is adopted here as a general thematic framework to view and explore Berlin’s oldest park understood as a unique and idiosyncratic landscape of transgression. Tiergarten transgresses heritage, ecology, urbanism, and humanism, existing as a precious anomaly, a rogue model challenging questions for future environments in an ever expanding sea of urbanization. This transgression can become a key for a shift in established discourses about the city.
The conference aims to evaluate several aspects of urban spaces that question and expand the current discourse on sustainability, for instance unbridled plant growth and close proximity of species, the unmaintained, the incommensurable, the extraterritorial, the outlaw, the simultaneity of (contradicting) histories, to mention some.
The conference is divided into four thematic sections: 1) Transgressing Heritage; 2) Transgressing Ecology; 3) Transgressing Urbanism; 4) Transgressing Humanism
Participants: Alessandra Ponte (keynote), Fahim Amir, Michael Baers, Martin Conrads, Eva Simone Hayward, Gunnar Klack, Stefano Mancuso, Franziska Morlok, Sandra Parvu, Karin Reisinger, Luise Rellensmann, Chris Wilbert, Piero Zanini
Concept: Sandra Bartoli; organization: Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization TU Berlin Jörg Stollmann and Sandra Bartoli
Lecture 1: "Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression," 30/10/2017
Lecture 2: "Sun, Shit, Compost, and Air," 13/11/2017
Lecture 3: "Worlds of Animals and Humans," 27/11/2017
Lecture 4: "The City's Ecology: Dirt and the Garbage Tree," 11/12/2017
Lecture 5: "The City's Future Natural History," 13/03/2018
Authors: Sandra Bartoli, Silvan Linden
in: Dialogic City - Berlin wird Berlin
Eds.: Arno Brandlhuber, Florian Hertweck, Thomas Mayfried
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2015
Tiergarten, the oldest park (and forest) of Berlin, is analyzed in its spatial transformation and use in recent history, and presented as an urban model for the future, where the radical coexistence of human and non-human realms defines a deeper level of urbanity. The text, written with Silvan Linden, is part of a large collection of essays and interviews in the book.
Magazine: Bauwelt 09/15
An article about the Thai architect Sumet Jumsai and his work in Bangkok