Berlin Design Week 2025 Compact: Berlin International University - A Seat at The Table! Designing Spaces of Assembly and Participation
...students from Berlin International University explored approaches towards the Designing Spaces of Assembly and Participation of the subtitle, explored processes and structures to enable all to take their place at the table and thereby to enable all to contribute to contemporary discourses... Non-Human Perspectives & Cohabitation, a proposal located in/on/over/under Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, the former Tempelhof Airport that now exists as a public green space, and runway, and which seeks and sought to remind us that the human species is not the only species on the planet, that there are a great many others we need to consider, admonished the need to sharpen our focus on the environments we occupy and thus, in our reading, through introducing non-human species force us all to query if contemporary design processes are inclusive not only in context of non-human species but of the human species as a whole, or if they tend to reinforce dominant groups; Sex Workers in Dialogue, undertaken in cooperation with the Frauentreff Olga, a shelter, drop-in centre, advice centre for not just the sex works of the title but all females outwith conventional definitions of society, and that resulted in a redesigning of the interior of the Frauentreff in context of reflections on, arguments in context of, safety, dignity and visibility, three of those things conventional definitions of society tends to take from those women who make use of the Frauentreff's service; Migration, Diaspora and a Right to Stay which considered how in an increasingly hostile environment those organisations dedicated to supporting refugees and migrants can achieve a meaningful visibility, and that resulted in a mobile, responsive, auction platform, and associated urban furniture, intended to be staged and employed in different Berlin Kieze...
