Invitation to the Magazine Launch and Discussion at The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory

The issue Berlin 21: Beyond the Garden of the magazine Materia Arquitectura, published by Universidad San Sebastian in Chile, is dedicated to Berlin's deeply rooted discourses, manifestations and practices operating at the intersection of city and nature. The articles featured in this volume delve into various urban practices, including those related to bees, pollination, nutrition, communities, gender, ground fertility, affection and beauty.

The magazine's launch event brings together some of its authors to explore the commitment, resistance and persistence demonstrated by the multiple species involved in shaping the urban and social landscapes of orchards, gardens and agriculture. The discussion transcends the local context of Berlin, framing it as a global concern regarding the definition, preservation and expansion of habitats for various species.

PROGRAMME

Welcome
Dunya Bouchi_Managing Director, Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin

Introduction
Jorge Godoy_architect, guest editor Berlin 21: Beyond the Garden, Berlin/Santiago

Presentations

  • Erika Mayr_urban beekeeper, landscape gardener, Rome
  • Rosario Talevi_architect, editor, curator and educator, Berlin
  • Nicole Sartirani_gastronome, actress, promoter of entomophagy, Berlin
  • Helene Binet_photographer, London
  • Florentin Steininger_architect, Stockholm

Panel Discussion
with the speakers, moderated by Jorge Godoy

Followed by a reception with a small tasting of sustainable food by Mikrokosmos

ABOUT THE MAGAZINE

Materia Arquitectura. Berlin 21: Beyond the Garden.
Year 12, Issue 21, December 21. Semestral publication. School of Architecture, University San Sebastian, Santiago, Chile.
Chief Editor: Constanza Larach; General Editor: Pablo Brugnoli; Guest Editor: Jorge Godoy Román; Contributors: Hélène Binet (photographer), Erika Mayr (beekeeper), Florentin Steininger (designer), Sjorerd Krijnen (architect), Ana Zatezalo (architect), Gilly Karjevsky (curator), Rosario Talevi (architect), Dunya Bouchi (curator), Miriam Mlecek (architect/curator), Nicole Schuck (artist), Nicole Sartirani (gastronome), Diego Castro Bolanos (gastronome) and Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen (sociologist).

Materia Arquitectura is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research, which can be exploratory and speculative. It is also open to visual and imaginative proposals. Its aim is to contribute to the development and questioning of the discipline and architectural practice through new problems and ideas in relation to the cultural, social, economic and political contexts in which it operates. To this end, each thematic issue, proposed by guest editors, is based on concrete objects that open up conceptual debates and promote dialogue between architecture and related disciplines. Architects, artists, urban planners, filmmakers, animators and poets, historians of culture and architecture, geographers, anthropologists and other social scientists, thinkers and writers of all kinds are invited to participate in this publication and enrich the visions of architecture.

The magazine will be available during the event.