Stadtraum Gebrauchs- Erweiterung
A series of urban intervention objects address specific situations in city space in a direct way and lead the way for new and surprising uses.
Open Raumlabor University
The open raumlabor university is a fictional institution offering workshops, excursions, and open discussions as educational formats. Founded in 2015, it builds upon a long history of learning related formats by raumlaborberlin at the same time offering a new framing for the many participatory and exchange oriented formats of the work. The ORU is part of a wider move to shift from project to practice and essentially seeks to open up a common space for exploration, improvisation and collective experimentation.
Real Utopias
Our real utopias are multi layered cultural projects, which start from a strong and seemingly utopian idea for a difficult site. They combine a broad range of often unconventional planning strategies and initiate active alliances between local actors and external experts.
participative building
Building for us is a tool to create mutuality and to initiate engagement with spaces. Participatory build leads to different and often surprising questions and ideas on the concrete spaces, it helps on finding topics that affect the environment of people.
Urbanism
We develop and test urban development strategies from concentrated local interventions to complex large scale urban transformation processes. Our specialization is dynamic master planning.
Tempelhof
Raumlabor’s ongoing engagement on the former airfield of Tempelhof ranges from long-term planning to temporary interventions on site. it displays our role as a link between the city and its inhabitants. This commitment demands to perform in changing roles to develop ideas for its future use.
Generator
The generator is an experimental building laboratory for instant, participatory building practices in public space. the generator combines construction principles, new geometries for furniture and lightweight constructions, as well as new usage possibilities and multiple programs for people to meet and interact in public.
Scenography
Our scenographic work is driven by our belief that public spaces are spaces for meeting and interacting. Our scenographies inhabit and enhance existing public spaces as museums, festivals, theaters, fairs. We aim at extending inherent possibilities of publicness.
We like spaces to be usable, to invite to act to propose possibilities. Space becomes mediator between (exhibition) contents and the using and perceiving subject. We are interested to open the space to ways to inscribe yourself, to make presence more substantial.
Stadtraum Imagination
We transform urban spaces into something completely different, far from all expectations and visions. We move programmatic narratives into urban spaces, install new atmospheres and create a sense of new potential.
Mobile Activators
Our mobile activators open urban space for temporary collective uses, explore its qualities and possibilities and interact with architectural and the social spaces.
Doors
The urban transformation process in the cities of the former GDR was for a long time framed as a process of shrinkage. Underlying this is a fundamental change from a socialist to a capitalist economy. Workplaces were lost, career paths disrupted, social contexts dissolved. At the same time, the peaceful end of the socialist regime was the beginning of a big utopian hope for a society which is more inclusive, democratic, fair and free.
Stadtkarten
For some, maps are a tool to understand the complexity of our world, for others they are only images of a subjective understanding. We use cartography as a tool to understand the contemporary phenomena that shape our cities and environment.