ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY:
The program section curated by Mia Hemmerling and Gerald Wöss focuses on architecture in a social, socio-political or historical context.
The program section Architecture and Society this year is all about the topic of transformation. If change is only viewed as progress, then this leaves out a vital perspective, namely that of loss. Loss of memory, of personal history, community, living quarters, or even of the basis for existence. The film series deals with displacement, taking a look at political and economic interests, social struggles, and demographic change. It also asks how we can bring what has been displaced back to our attention. We want housing to be created, neighborhoods to be able to change, and cities to be able to develop. But what is going to happen to what used to be there before? What are the consequences when places are forgotten and stories supplanted? What are the ideas behind architecture? What living environments and social spaces do develop in and between these buildings?
This year’s selection of documentary works creates a narrative spanning different places and presenting people subject to upheaval. Like, for instance, in THE TOWN THAT DROVE AWAY, where the residents of the old town of Hasankeyf, Türkiye, are trying to live their daily lives for as long as possible before getting dislodged by the authorities because of a dam project. Likewise, THE SINKING FRINGE tells the stories of people and initiatives that had to make way for an urban development project. The short film THE GREAT TOGETHER portrays four large housing projects and their individual yet global challenges. WHITE SMOKE OVER SCHWARZE PUMPE captures the decades-long structural transformation in the Brandenburg Lausitz, the former energy triangle of the GDR, and the situation of the local people concerned. Finally, the shift from displacement and appropriation to renewed displacement is shown in REPLANTED, by touchingly portraying the last inhabitants of a former sanatorium in Georgia. (Mia Hemmerling & Gerald Wöss)
This year’s selection of documentary works creates a narrative spanning different places and presenting people subject to upheaval. Like, for instance, in THE TOWN THAT DROVE AWAY, where the residents of the old town of Hasankeyf, Türkiye, are trying to live their daily lives for as long as possible before getting dislodged by the authorities because of a dam project. Likewise, THE SINKING FRINGE tells the stories of people and initiatives that had to make way for an urban development project. The short film THE GREAT TOGETHER portrays four large housing projects and their individual yet global challenges. WHITE SMOKE OVER SCHWARZE PUMPE captures the decades-long structural transformation in the Brandenburg Lausitz, the former energy triangle of the GDR, and the situation of the local people concerned. Finally, the shift from displacement and appropriation to renewed displacement is shown in REPLANTED, by touchingly portraying the last inhabitants of a former sanatorium in Georgia. (Mia Hemmerling & Gerald Wöss)
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