Screening in the Gut Eibenhof culture barn

This highly worth-seeing series, filmed in Austria, India, Peru and the Netherlands, introduces architects who are searching for answers to the major questions facing our civilization today. They deal with climate change, rapidly growing cities, the involvement of local populations, education and migration. These architects are pioneers of humane living and sustainable building who translate creativity and humanitarian ideas into plans and realize them together with the residents. With their creativity, they offer resistance and create confidence for a livable tomorrow. These architects go where money is lacking, social grievances prevail and climate change threatens the environment, rising to social challenges. They seem to overcome the limits of what is feasible and negotiate cultural, political, as well as economic and ecological positions. In this series that inspires confidence, they talk about the ideas and ideals that drive them.

Director and producer Gero von Boehm speaks with architecture critic Niklas Maak (FAZ/Städelschule Frankfurt) and architect Regine Leibinger (Barkow Leibinger/Harvard) about how we want to live in the future in light of the major changes caused by digitalization and climate change.

Our construction will have to be rethought. What do houses reveal about our lives? What should they look like? How will we get around? How will we work?

We look forward to a conversation about tomorrow, about ideas and images that give hope.

Niklas Maak is the author of „Servermanifest. Architektur der Aufklärung: Data Center als Politikmaschine, Wohnkomplex und Atlas der seltsamen Häuser und ihrer Bewohner“. His novel Technophoria is currently being adapted into a film. Since 2014, he has taught at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard, and since 2021 also at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Maak was co-curator of the exhibition Countryside at the Guggenheim Museum New York and has received awards including the George F. Kennan Prize, the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize, the Prize of the Association of German Architects, and the COR Prize.

Regine Leibinger has led the architectural firm Barkow Leibinger in Berlin together with Frank Barkow since 1993. In 2022, Regine Leibinger founded the non-profit organization „Experimental,“ which supports projects that experimentally venture into new areas of architecture in order to change how and what we build.

From 2006 to 2018 she was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin. She held visiting professorships at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Princeton University School of Architecture, and the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, and since the fall of 2022 she has been teaching at Harvard University again as the John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture.

3:00 PM – 4:40 PM

Rated 0 for all ages (Temporary rating in accordance with the German Youth Protection Act)