As part of the exhibition „Parlament der Pflanzen“, the Seitenlichtsaal is conceived as a changing, growing project space.

In the midst of the European lockdown, »when the economic, political, environmental, and social climate often make us feel that the world is falling apart,« curator Ethel Baraona Pohl and landscape architect Céline Baumann wrote each other messages in which they address the notion of collaboration and what it means to »care with« instead of to »care for.« By revisiting Céline’s work Parliament of Plants and the exhibition Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales at Matadero Madrid that Ethel curated, they argue that through observing the botanical world and its phenomena, we can learn a lot about interdependency, mesh networks, and contamination as tools to commonly inhabit and care with the world.

The Solitude Journal features works and writings in which the political, social and ethical dimensions of care and concern between humans, non-humans, other species and the material world converge. A publication of the Akademie Schloss Solitude edited by Denise Helene Sumi.

The team led by Salathé Architekten wins first prize for the project of the Bachmatt site.

The team led by Diener & Diener Architeckten wins first prize for the densification project of the Settelen site, a logistics company whose headquarters history dates back to horse-carried parcel delivery.

Based on the “Cautionary Tales for Christmas” from Superstudio (1971), the exhibition gathers the views of contemporary practices questioning what we understand as ‘city’, and thus, helps us to reimagine what the city could become.

We are selected to envision the future of the urban area, which will include a central square, a linear park, and new streets.

The triennale explores the theme of architecture of Degrowth: an economy of shared plenty in which human and ecological flourishing matter most.

In order to cope with the current ecological collapse and the upcoming sixth mass extinction, we need to be able to, in the words of the feminist scholar Donna Haraway, “play string figures with companion species” and “refuse human exceptionalism”. In recent years, scientists, botanists and scholars are increasingly probing the notion of plant sentience. Indigenous relations of mutual care and assistance shared between humans and nonhumans are being acknowledged more widely, corroborated by recent research in the field of plant neurobiology and arboreal communication. Switzerland reported on the issue of vegetal dignity, setting a frame of reference towards “the moral consideration of plants for their own sake”. It is high time we redefined our role amongst other species, considering the natural world as a network of relations that is multifaceted and intersectional.

This display brings together 40 visions on how architecture can respond to today’s rapidly changing world.

The workshop investigates how to create public space where people of different socio-cultural, ethnic, or cultural background feel equal and respected.

The exhibition explores the little-known, often-overlooked, and rare intimate behaviour of the botanical world and is on display from the 3^rd of May until the 22^nd of June 2019.

The “Garden State” project from MAMAZA is inspired by the story of Libertalia, a possibly fictional anarchist island colony founded in the late 17th century near Madagascar in which pirates and freed slaves lived communally in a peaceful environment.