Ow­ning Our City

Terms like 'participation' and 'cooperative planning' now belong to the standard repertoire of urban development projects. But can we actually appropriate the city and architecture as future users?

Wessen Stadt? D 2017, 54:00 min, OV with English subtitles, Dir: Hans Christian Post

The film covers the architectural controversy in Berlin of the 1990s, and traces its impact to this day. Can the city remain a city for everybody?

To the Table, UKR 2017, 13:52 mins., OV with subtitles, Dir: Anna Dobrova

Niemandsland – Über die Zukunft einer verlassenen Stadt, D 2017, 82:00 mins, OV (in German), Dir: Philipp Kohl & Donnie Schoenemond

Following the withdrawal of the US military, new life is to breathed into the empty Benjamin Franklin Village: a new district for Mannheim that does not extinguish the old is being planned by MVDR with the participation and input of the local residents.