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By exploring processes of infrastructural transformation, BB2040 seeks to initiate a discussion on possible futures for Berlin and its metropolitan region: #2040.

08/08/2022

! Lecture x Simona Paplauskaite, Colm mac Aoidh, Frederick Serroen -

TUNE IN via link in bio.

The quality of the urban environment derives from various interventions and policy decisions over time and reflects the collective work of multiple stakeholders – public, private, and community.

While European cities have developed sophisticated laws and regulations (‘hard power’) to secure diverse public interest objectives through the governance of urban design, the quality of the resulting urban places can be disappointing. Often the outcomes are not aligned with commonly shared objectives such as creating environmental sustainability, human scale, land use mix, conviviality, inclusivity, or supporting cultural meaning. This shows the limits of formal framework within which the urban developments are planned and delivered.

Over the last two years, Urban Maestro project aimed to understand and encourage innovation in the field of urban design governance through a better knowledge on alternative non-regulatory (‘soft power’) approaches and their contribution to the quality of the built environment. As a result, it selected and highlighted a panorama of innovative practices that can be used as a source and inspiration for future policy updates supporting the informal approach to the governance of urban design.

27/07/2022

In case you are in Potsdam please come to see our exhibition at Rechenzentrum Starting this Friday for a week. -> link to exhibition in bio

29/04/2022

The Thessalian Campos in the era of the Plantationocene. Agricultural Policies, Multispecies Exhaustion and the shift towards Care.

Next Tuesday 05.05.2022 5pm (utc+1) : x

Zoom-link : in bio

This work explores one of the most productive cotton landscapes in Greece, the Thessalian valley, and investigates how specific agricultural policies caused a series of agrarian transformations that led to its exhaustion. To grasp how the system operates, I drew upon the philosophical term Plantationocene, which best describes the mechanisms that exterminate contemporary plantations. Through a series of diagrams and mappings, I depicted the spatial manifestation of the system, and the infrastructural network that was inflicted upon the landscape and gradually turned what we used to perceive as "green" and "natural" into a mechanized and dysphoric landscape. Finally, driven by the notions of care, maintenance and repair, I developed alternative strategies for the future of the valley that could potentially lead to the transition towards a Landscape of Care.

Evelina Faliagka is an architect born in the Greek countryside. She holds a M.Arch from the University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece) and a M.Sc in Urban Design from TU Berlin. She works in the fields of urban design, and architecture. Her main research interests focus on developing caring design scenarios for multispecies co-habitation at this time of climate, social and political instability.

31/08/2021

[EN] INVESTIGATIONS! with Ananda Ehret:

Berlin will experience periods of extreme heat in the future. The assessment of local environmental and urban conditions facilitates effective adaption measurements and the creation of diverse atmospheres.

In the forthcoming years urban areas will be increasingly affected by the impacts of the climate catastrophe. Due to the agglomeration of people, infrastructure and economic activity cities are particularly vulnerable to these accelerating threats and therefore priority areas for climate change impact assessment. The Project 30°+Berlin focuses on heatwaves in the context of Berlin and explores alternative approaches for dealing with extreme heat. It aims to deploy and exploit local climatological conditions and combines temperature reduction with the creation of generous and programmed public spaces.

Learn more about the project on our Website!

#30°

23/08/2021

New Article online!

[DE] INVESTIGATIONS! mit Anke Hagemann, Natacha Quintero González und Studierenden der BTU Cottbus:

Lebensmittelkreisläufe und die Produktion städtischer Räume
Städte bilden Schnittpunkte in translokalen Güterflüssen und Versorgungssystemen. Insbesondere die Versorgung der Stadtbevölkerung mit Lebensmitteln ist – wie die Wasser- oder Energieversorgung – eine Grundvoraussetzung für das Funktionieren städtischer Lebensweisen. Sie prägt die Beziehungen von Städten zu ihrem Hinterland. In der Geschichte bildete die ständige Expansion der Landwirtschaft und der Mittel des Warentransports eine wesentliche Bedingung für städtisches Wachstum, und heute hat die Lebensmittelversorgung längst eine planetarische Dimension angenommen. Ihre Formen und Abläufe, wie auch die Rituale des Essens, haben sich seit Jahrhunderten in die Architektur der Städte eingeschrieben. Dennoch bleiben die Strukturen der Lebensmittelversorgung meist unter dem Radar der Stadtforschung und -planung.

21/08/2021

Have you already watched the movie on Countryside, The Future???
AMO x c/o now x Bb2040

The Countryside represents 98% of the world’s surface. It is the source and sink of all urban metabolisms. A mythical place full of contrast, tension, and the concurrent presence of everything; where post-human landscapes and technological excitement meet endless boringness. The countryside, even in Brandenburg, is truly “both-and”: productive, transfigured, exploited, pristine, distorted, over-formed, misunderstood, romanticized, idealized, overloaded, undernourished, ignored, polluted, humanity’s largest and most valuable asset, extremely endangered, full of problems, the place to communalize/isolate.
In this conversation Annie M Schneider () and Sebastian Bernardy () guide us through years of research and illustration accumulated at AMO/ .eu on the topic of “The Countryside” and give us the opportunity to digital deep dive into the eponymous exhibition at the NY, which was overshadowed by the pandemic.

Thank you , for the fantastic insights, for the great edits, and thanks to , , , , .international, for conducting the interview!

Link in Bio!!

https://bb2040.de/wp/project/amo-country

13/08/2021

: Everything is connected.

In an urbanised society, infrastructures constitute the foundation of communal life. Organised in networks they facilitate the flows of—and relationships between—goods, humans, and non-humans. Connectivity, especially in terms of digital infrastructures, set off profound societal transformations and resulted in a new era of humankind: the networked society. However, networks always produce a degree of self-containedness, leaving behind what is not included. Today, facing imminent transformation challenges, centralised, hierarchical network infrastructures are being called into question in the shift towards more holistic decentral or distributed logics.

MICROARTICLE: Global Cities

New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin?
As a financial center, a ‘Global City' represents a node of concentrated economic power in a world spanning network, facilitated by, and enabled through modern information and communication technologies. The ‘Global City’ is characterized by its high diversity of languages, cultures, religions and ideologies, possibly more than by its local embeddedness. The rise of global cities has resulted in a loss of power of the nation-state, continously questioning the relationship - and responsibilities - between the country and the city.

MICROARTICLE: Out of Milk?

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes a vision of ubiquitous connectivity, a mesh of every place, everything and everybody. Smart objects have sensors and programmed communication capabilities that allow them to interact in a network with other (smart) objects and get in touch with humans through user interfaces. To stay with a well known example, smart refrigerators let us know when the milk is almost empty, or even order fresh milk automatically. This everyday example illustrates the potential in terms of increased efficiency that the IoT promises.

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12/08/2021

: Go with the Flow!

When we move around the world we shape our environment, meanwhile carrying different species of plants, animals—and even viruses—with us. The way infrastructures organise the flows that run through and across our cities reshapes them. Berlin’s streets, blocks, housing typologies, and most things surrounding us, were designed around our means of transport. At some point goods started moving around us more than humans or animals: today’s canals and railways were infrastructures once designed to move the materials from which the city was built. However, we must be careful in curating the flows in order to create synergies rather than barriers, and thus, inequalities.

MICROARTICLE: There’s a
Train Comin’

Students of O. M. Ungers developed large-scale complexes planned over transport infrastructures at the TU Berlin in the 60s. Ironically, his large-scale buildings in the Märkisches Viertel remained underutilised in terms of transport, which led to massive social problems.

MICROARTICLE: 1,2,3,4…

The S-Bahn ring has long been understood as dividing line between the inner city, with its high rates of influx and gentrification processes,and the rest of Berlin. After the land, building and rental prices accelerated enormously, it’s the administrative border between Berlin and Brandenburg that is now coming into focus. Here, a new ring of suburban ghettos could emerge in the coming decades, making any sustainable planning of the BB-habitat impossible.

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10/08/2021

& : What goes around comes around.

BB’s economy today is based on consumption, with sites of production and disposal connected through global logistics infrastructures exploiting human and natural resources out of sight. However, BB has a tradition of local circularity – a century ago, visionary planners imagined a city and region nourishing each other. The ground of Brandenburg once built the city of Berlin – its mud used for bricks and its sand for cement. And after the war, rubble was returned to the earth to form modest peaks around the city. The BB of the future is planned today and we must consider its life cycle from cradle-to-cradle – do Brandenburg’s forests have the answer?

MICROARTICLE: Anthropocene Landscapes of Berlin

A look at today's morphology of Greater Berlin reveals a spacious landscape with a few subtle elevations and often homogeneous urban development. Parallel to that, artificial mountains and cautious clusters of higher urban developments in the inner city mark individual high points. An analytical differentiated drawing of the topography (black), artificial mountains (red) and planning heights (blue) promotes a discussion of the origins and types of development of these morphological landscapes and provides a view of their correlations and interplay.

MICROARTICLE: Holzbauland

Building materials and especially cement account for a significant amount of CO2 emissions. However, the region of Berlin-Brandenburg is growing and tens of thousands of new apartments are needed. As Berlin sets its goal to become a carbon-free city by 2050, new ways of constructing homes are needed.

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08/08/2021

: Not just cute, but vital.

Did you know that cities can be hives of biodiversity, and that, due to its unique history of separation, Berlin is a prime example? Through infrastructures and their flows of humans and goods, we have transported species across continents, simultaneously disrupting and enriching endemic habitats. However, the city’s biodiversity is under threat with more and more paved surfaces and harsher environments. In Brandenburg, landscapes are already highly manicured through human centered land use with industrialized methods of agriculture and forestry, which eliminate natural habitats and retreats for animals and plants. How can we sustain biodiversity in the future?

MICROARTICLE: Living in the Plantationocene

The Plantationocene, defined by Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing as the fundamental revolutionary transformation in the unequal and patchy, but global ways, of the plantation as an apparatus of natural social redoing of worlds, is also a way of looking at the planetary effects of extractivism, monoculture practices, and coercive labor structures that paved since the 1600s the ideals of progress and modernity that would boom after the Industrial Revolution, and are largely responsible for increasing social inequality and triggering—as well as accelerating—climate change.

MICROARTICLE: Species in Flux

Through our mobility infrastructures we have altered many ecosystems, bringing foreign species into new habitats. Through trade routes Europe acquired new food ingredients from other parts of the world, like maize or potatoes, now very present in German cuisine. This could sound enriching but it can quickly turn dangerous, as some of the incoming species become a threat to the native ones due to the lack of natural predators. We have transported animals, plants, insects—even plagues—around the world, and the recent pandemic has made it extremely clear how interconnected we are.

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