This video presents the "What Is Reality" event, featuring talks by professors Elke Lütjen-Drecoll and Michael Bach. Topics discussed include how people's visual system relies on concepts to create a...
This video presents a selection of interviews and segments highlighting activity at the BMW Guggenheim Lab during its 5th week in Berlin. Topics tackled by participants and Lab Team members this week centered...
This video contains footage of Wolfgang Welsch's talk during the "What Is Beautiful?" event. Offering an alternative to the view that humans are separated from the natural world by their intellect and...
This video contains footage of Jürgen Krusche's talk during the "What Is Beautiful?" event. Krusche focuses on a provocative thesis: that ugliness is an important aspect of the urban environment. He comes...
This video contains footage of Helmut Leder's presentation during the "What Is Beautiful?" event. Leder discusses the question of why people prefer certain objects—why they perceive one or another as...
In this video, Berlin Lab Team member Corinne Rose discusses her projects Free Space Berlin and Make Space. The two projects both stem from Rose's desire to maximize the impact of small actions, to see...
In a talk with award-winning journalist, author, and former New York Lab Team member Charles Montgomery, we explored how cities are being redesigned in the name of happiness. Charles drew upon his research...
Through the Lab's Testing, Testing! program, we are learning that urban design can alter the way we feel. But can different landscapes actually change the way we treat other people? In this adventurous...