Elective
Spring 2025

Sessions on Territory
Agency: Architecture in the Civil Service

SESSIONS ON TERRITORY is a series of public debates exploring the intersection of architecture, territory, and political economy. The upcoming sessions will examine
architecture’s role in the public sector, featuring practitioners engaged with or working within state institutions. Together we will debate how architecture can help advance public interest in the broadest sense—encompassing the public good, public ownership, public space, and the public sphere—amid challenges from the state, market, technology, and a growing erosion of trust in social institutions.

  1. The Ministry of Space meets the Ämtli für Städtebau

    Lectures: Iva Čukić and Ella Eßlinger(ZAS*)

  2. British Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Technocracy

    Lecture: Eleni Axioti (AA School, London University)
    Responding: Frederike Lausch, Amy Perkins, Jeremy Waterfield

  3. Gruppe für Express-Projekte

    Claudia Thomet (Amt für Hochbauten)

  4. Public-Civic Partnerships and other Misunderstandings in Urban Design

    Lecture: Rebecca Wall & Felix Marlow (HU Berlin)

  5. Reassembling Public Administration: Participation and Innovation

    Lectures: Markus Miessen (University of Luxembourg) and Julio Paulos (FCL, ETH)

  6. Malmö City Architect

    Lecture: Finn Williams