Multimedia
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Step by Step: A Walk through Gropiusstadt
Slideshow
The Lab spent an afternoon at Gropiusstadt, the residential complex built in 1960 by modernist architect Walter Gropius. Jörg Stollman—the cofounder with Rainer Hehl of urbaninform.net, and professor...
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Campaigning for Cleaner Seas (Preview)
Video
In this preview, environmental activist Chris Hines tells how a small group of surfers confronted the water industry and the government to clean up the UK's coastline and seas. Director: Benjamin Kahlmeyer....
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Actions: What You Can Do in the City (Preview)
Video
In this preview, architect Mirko Zardini questions the standard categories of urban existence: life, work, and leisure. What if we attempted to inhabit cities in a new way? What if we broke our time into...
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Rachel Smith: Dynamic Connections and Cycling the City
Video
Full video of Lab Team member Rachel Smith's introduction of the day's topic for June 27: Cycling in the City. Already a bicycle-friendly city, Berlin has an active community of bicycling advocates, from...
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Basics of Perception
Video
The topic of July 7 was "Basics of Perception." This video explores several events that delved into questions about how perception actually works and how our senses inform our interaction with the environment....
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Testing, Testing! Berlin and Rethinking Garbage
Video
This video presents two events that occurred at the Lab on July 6: "Testing, Testing! Berlin" and "Rethinking Garbage." The first was a participatory tour through Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg led by clinical...
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Sidsel Birk Hjuler: The World’s Most Bike-Friendly Cities
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Which cities are the best for urban cycling? Sidsel Birk Hjuler explains how the Copenhagenize Index rates more than eighty major cities around the world using a comprehensive range of criteria to define...
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Rachel Smith: Dynamic Connections and Cycling the City
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Lab Team member Rachel Smith introduces the topic of June 27: Cycling in the City. Already a bicycle-friendly city, Berlin has an active community of bicycling advocates, from members of the Senate to...