urban occupation : berlin

Also to clarify: I have been asked whether one can fail this design studio? Well, the thing is that you have to build your argument and develop your project in such a way, that you are able to convince me, but more important, to convince all the other critics, especially the guest critics. The guest critics are important, as your mark will be a mix of my assessment and the assessments of those guests, so with i.e. 4 guests, my assessment will only account for 20%; so, yes, technically you, of course, can fail this studio. Especially if you can’t demonstrate a true engagement with the project and the studio’s scope.

Today we send out the invitation to a number of guest critics for the first presentation of concepts.
dear friends and colleagues, including Sebastian Kaiser and Stefan Rosinski (both from Volksbuehne), Olga Skaba and Hartmut Flothman (both from claim), Michael Roper (Australian architect, and Guest Critic at the urban occupation : Action event), Prof Peter-Aribert Herms (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Stuttgart) and Birgit Klauck (ADIP/TU Berlin).

‘The Students from the international urban occupation design studio at the Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP) at the TU Berlin, led by Rochus Urban Hinkel with Hélène Frichot, would like to invite you to be a guest critic for the presentation of the very first concepts.
The studio brings together students from Australia, Bulgaria, France, Great Britain, Spain, Poland, Canada and Germany in an exploration of the social and political dimensions of public space through a number of ‘actions’.’

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