Understanding the City as a Woven Fabric
On Friday, March 27, Ellen Schindler, Managing Partner of De Zwarte Hond Berlin, will take part in the panel discussion “Why do we need building culture education, and what does textiles have to do with it?”.
Building culture education goes beyond learning to appreciate buildings. It enables people to understand spatial processes and to actively participate in them. At a time when cities are becoming increasingly complex, this is not a luxury, but a prerequisite for meaningful participation.
In this context, textiles are not merely illustrative, but serve as a method. Just as fabric is created through interconnected threads, the city is composed of relationships between people, places, and systems. Working with textiles can make these connections visible: they can be seen, shaped, and transformed. What may seem abstract and technical becomes tangible, collective, and understandable.
The discussion is part of the 8th International Symposium on Building Culture Education, organized by the Architektenkammer Thüringen, Bauhaus University Weimar, and Stiftung Baukultur Thüringen.
Projects such as our book METRO O1O demonstrate the importance of developing alternative approaches to building culture education. When the city is approached not technocratically, but through stories, images, and imagination, new ways of understanding emerge. Without such forms of narration and representation, the city remains unreadable for many—and therefore, in essence, undemocratic.
Fanny Kratzer (Director of the Thüringer Volkshochschulverband) and Franziska Wittau (Head of the State Center for Political Education Thüringen) will also participate in the panel. The discussion will be moderated by Katharina Stahlhoven, Head of the Education Department at the Bundesstiftung Baukultur.
Date: March 27
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Eiermannbau Apolda, Auenstraße 11, Germany
More information about the program:
https://baukultur-thueringen.de/symposium_baukulturelle_bildung-programm/