For three weeks, 17 international artists will address biotopes as the living environment of animals, plants, people and artists, and will set up their 'Art Biotopes' along the 2.6-kilometer forest ar
With a display window devoted to design trends since 1945, INTEF, itself resident at Mathildenhöhe for over 50 years, intends to forge a link in the Osthang Project with the artists’ colony.
With OPEN SPACE a project of the Darmstadt Summer Course will be transferred to the Osthang. Today: African guest artists of Akademie Schloss Solitude.
In the fourth and last part of the Future Workshop we get down to brass tacks: proposals will be formulated in detail and organizational questions addressed.
A two-day symposium 'The City As A Sphere For Action': focus is the search for new open, social spaces and an alternative planning and building practice.
Citizens of Darmstadt and summer school participants are invited to present their own proposals and ideas, as well as links with Mathildenhöhe. Sign up!
Time for talks, discussions, presentations – for all those unprojectable initiatives that might arise out of nine days of living and thinking together.
This session of thinking together, hosted by New York based artists Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, will focus on the multiple intersections between art practices, politics and education.
This session explores the potential for this political passage through an engagement with the works of contemporary thinkers of the ‘life of the imagination‘. Also, there's 'Lecture for Every One‘!
The separation of the general intellect from the social body and the internal fragmentation of the activity of the general intellect will become the subject of this day.
Ranabir Samaddar will open a space of reflection and discussion around the notions of dialogue, contention, and thinking together in a post-colonial perspective.
Activists organize and sustain themselves using ‘free‘ technical services provided by Fortune 500 companies. At the same time, ‘alternative tech practices‘ are sustained by a select few.
Whether it is understood as a synonym for money, a term referring to any medium of exchange, or a notion pertaining to the circulatio in general: ‘currency‘ lies at the heart of organizing life.
Decolonizing knowledge and learning to unlearn in order to relearn on other than modern/colonial grounds is the central task for border thinking.
Experimental building and think labs for future coexistence in a region: How can that stack up at a place like the Mathildenhöhe?
Since its theoretical formation in post-WWII economic circles 'neoliberalism' has been propagating to the point of today's ubiquity on a global scale.
Since its theoretical formation in post-WWII economic circles 'neoliberalism' has been propagating to the point of today's ubiquity on a global scale.
As a temporary venue for exchanging experience and knowledge, the Osthang Project brings together people who, in theory and practice, address alternative 'co-existence' models.
Hessen Design e. V. has taken the Osthang Project as an incentive to continue its discussion series destined to illustrate innovative strategies in exploring and creating urban design processes.
At the invitation by the BDA Darmstadt urban and spatial planner Klaus Selle will speak about civic participation in urban development.
Cluster für Kreativwirtschaft Hessen (CLUK) is promoting a pilot project that is destined to serve as a role model for similar homes for the creative industry in Hessen.
«The Creative Process» In the third part of the four-part Futures Workshop, participants can give free reign to their wishes and imagination.
Participation and building in temporary communities creates the foundation for a new a culture of planning. The architects and planners also find themselves in the role of mediators.
How can we generate sustainable change for our cities from this emancipatory movement in the future? The City as a Sphere for Action 1/2: New collective space, process based planning strategies.
Students from the Dept. of Architecture at Hochschule Darmstadt (h_da) have invited some of Darmstadt's cooperatives to talk with them about the values and motivation.
In an urban salon, renowned corporate and political consultants and local protagonists will explore how to structure change in the urban context.
This film evening is dedicated to a various compilation of short movies and documentaries which give an overview of alternative ways of 'living together'.
Darmstadt citizens and summer school participants are invited to present their ideas and visions for Mathildenhöhe in short lectures.
The second part of the four-part Futures Workshop highlights the standpoints and initial ideas of the locals, of local institutions and groups.
Peter Fattinger & Inari Virkkala about «Design & Build. Or: The role of the architect.», a guest lecture in English.
Studio Umschichten (Stuttgart) & m7red (Buenos Aires)
«Architecture as resistance / No trust, no city»
moderated by: Christian Gropper (Darmstadt)
In 2013, architects Kerstin Schultz and Alexander Reichel brought out the book entitled 'Tragen und Materialisieren – Wände, Decken, Fügungen' by renowned Swiss architecture publishers Birkhäuser.
collectif etc. (Straßburg), Martin Kaltwasser (Berlin) & EARLStreet (Darmstadt)
«Building the change»
«EAMES – The Architect And The Painter» | Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey, USA 2011, 90 min. (in English)
orizzontale (Rome) & modulorbeat (Münster)
«Can one create a better city by individual objects?»
A framework is created for the forthcoming discussions within the Futures Workshop, the Mathildenhöhe as a whole is considered in keynotes.
The topping-out ceremony will be held on the Osthang five days after the start of the summer school and Gerhard Schweizer’s installation 'A stopping place on the road of becoming' will be presented.
Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokio), ConstructLab (Paris/Berlin), Bollinger+Grohmann (Frankfurt/Main)
«Space Experiments/Behaviorology»
The directors of the three municipal music institutes – Wolfram Knauer, Cord Meijering and Thomas Schäfer – in conversation with Bremen-based author and curator Julia Bulk.
atelier le balto (Le Havre/Berlin) & Andre Dekker / Observatorium (Rotterdam)
«place and use»
International participants are invited to discuss how global communal living can be enabled and ensured in light of the ecological and economic crises and the shifting geopolitical balance of power.
How can an emancipatory movement in the future generate lasting changes for our cities? And how can we develop a process orientated understanding of planning?
