raumlaborberlin (D)
raumlaborberlin was founded as a working group for architecture, art, planning and action in 1999. Taking a process-based approach, the group focuses on urban conditions, working on subjects of temporary architecture and urbanism. In interdisciplinary teams raumlaborberlin elaborates strategies for urban renewal, engaging in urban planning, design and construction of architecture, interactive environments and happenings along with research and teaching in the field of architecture and urban planning. raumlaborberlin seeks a specific analysis, trying to avoid generalisations. In their implementation of large-scale projects, the group develops platform-like structures allowing different actors to collaborate on the overall process. The core group of raumlaborberlin consists of nine people; “moderato cantabile”, the 2008 steirischer herbst festival centre was designed above all by Jan Liesegang and Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius. Jan Liesegang studied architecture in Berlin, Copenhagen and New York and has been a research associate at the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart since 2002. He lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart. Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius studied architecture in Berlin (TU Berlin/HDK) and Copenhagen (Art Academy), founded the Institute of Applied Architecture in 1997, and has been working as a performing architect since 1998. He featured at steirischer herbst 2006 with his Star Thrower as part of “Campshow Steiermark”. Projects of raumlaborberlin: “Hotel Neustadt”, 2003 (for Thalia Theater Halle), “Der Berg”, Berlin Palast der Republik, 2005 (organised by Sophiensäle, HAU, raumlaborberlin and Club Real), “Küchenmonument” since 2006 in Duisburg, Mülheim, Hamburg, Warsaw, Giessen, Berlin, Liverpool and still on tour, “FoyerSTADT”, 2007 (for Kampnagel Hamburg), “Aus Flug Hafen Sicht / Zukunft Mitteldeutschland”, 2008 (for Thalia Theater Halle in co-operation with Theater der Welt) and many more. Recently published by Jovis: raumlaborberlin “acting in public”, 2008.
www.raumlabor-berlin.de
