Unbuilding walls Berlin: Potsdamer Platz

Visiting Professors GRAFT in collaboration with Complex Projects MSc1 Landmark Studio Fall 2017

“Walls are a symbol for division, a manifestation of power, a built form of exclusion and inclusion, but also of protection. The Berlin Wall is now gone 28 years - exactly the time that it existed. The disappearance of the Berlin Wall left an unprecedented linear free space in the center of the German capital. This series of five animations categorise these open spaces. Each space has the potential to heal wounds in turning them into project of connection and landscapes of inclusion and communication.”

Visiting Professors: Lars Krückeberg, Thomas Willemeit, Wolfram Puts

Coördinator: Henri van Bennekom

Animations: Rik Meijer, Arend-Jan Krooneman

Students: Rosanne Alkema, Sjoerd Beemster, Matthew Bevan, Hugo Bolsius, Eveline van de Bovekamp, Stefan van den Eshof, Ignaz Hameetman, Sophie Hengeveld, Maud Klein Horsman, Danlei Huang, Anna Dobrava Kicinska, Rik Meijer, Charlie Roelse, Andy Tsui, Gina Vermeeren, Fikri Yalvac