This video presents Jürgen Krusche’s talk from the “What Is Beautiful?” event. Krusche focuses on a provocative thesis: that ugliness is an important aspect of the urban environment. He comes to...
This video presents highlights from the “Free Space Berlin” program, including the talk by urban sociologist Florian Schmidt and responses from workshop participants. The workshop focuses on the “Stadt...
This video presents the “Free Space Berlin" talk by Florian Schmidt, an urban sociologist based in Berlin. He focuses on the "Stadt Neudenken," which deals with property development—specifically how...
This video presents the entirety of Wolfgang Welsch’s talk from the “What Is Beautiful?” event. Offering an alternative to the view that humans are separated from the natural world by their intellect...
This video presents Lab Team member Carlo Ratti's vision of what the project offers participants. The Lab is a mobile platform that gives people an opportunity to think about architecture and design—and...
"The best way to predict our urban future is to invent it," says Berlin Lab Team member Carlo Ratti. Open from June 15 to July 29, 2012, the BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin was a "box of ideas" that encouraged...
This video contains Helmut Leder's entire presentation from the "What Is Beautiful?" event. Leder discusses the question of why people prefer certain objects—why they perceive one or another as beautiful....
The BMW Guggenheim Lab ended its run in Berlin on Sunday, July 29, 2012. Visitors came to the Lab for a day of conclusions and Q&As with the Berlin Lab Team and local collaborators, including Stiftung...