TU Berlin presents its new Chair ‘Entwerfen von Landschaften im Anthropozän/ Designing Landscapes in the Anthropocene’, or ÉLAN for short, headed by Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich since April 2025. The name says it all: Rather than seeing the Anthropocene as the antechamber to apocalypse, for the detrimental changes wrought by human activities on all things planetary, the ÉLAN team adopts a feminist stance, imbued with responsibility and care. It mobilises willpower and creativity to teach and research for change, for the better and more beautiful, for all forms of life. ÉLAN takes the Anthropocene as an invitation to work in teams (collectively), to combine knowledge(s) from practice and academia (transdisciplinarity), to collaborate with colleagues across the hemispheres (in international networks), and to strengthen the resolutely democratic culture of landscape architecture in Europe (a promising stance). ÉLAN’s team, their bachelor’s and master’s students, and selected international partners come together to animate an open makerspace with afternoon panels and performances from 23 to 27 June 2025 at the cultural platform feldfünf at Metropolenhaus, Mendelssohn-Platz 7-8, Berlin-Kreuzberg. The events will be held in English and can be switched to German if necessary (parallel language use).

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CO-llective // 23 June, 16-18.00h
Literature Salon ‘Collaborative and transnational feminist histories’
// Book presentation ‘Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture’ by Svava Riesto, Copenhagen University, and Meike Schalk, KTH Stockholm
// Discussion moderated by Lisa Diedrich of ÉLAN, TU Berlin

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TRANS-disciplinary // 24 June, 16-18.00h
Panel Discussion ‘Entanglement of research and practice as a feminist approach’
// Project presentations by Nina Vogel, SLU Urban Futures Malmö, and by Carolin Mees, Parsons School of Design und Pratt Institute New York
// Respondent statements by Andrea Kahn, designCONTENT New York, and Xenia Kokoula, GruppeF Berlin
// Discussion moderated by Lisa Diedrich and Anna Neuhaus of ÉLAN, TU Berlin

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INTER-national // 26 June 2025, 16-20.00h
Round table ‘Propelled by women: playscapes, commons, and planetary health’
Performance ‘DUCTO URBANO’
// Statements by Flavio Janches, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Paola Alfaro d’Alençon, UAS Frankfurt/PUC Santiago de Chile, Laura Kemmer, USP Sao Paulo
// Discussion moderated by Lisa Diedrich and Alejandro Orduz Trujillo of ÉLAN
// Performance with the DUCTO URBANO urban transformer, directed by Victoria Cuadrado and Javier Deyheralde, Ensayos Urbanos en el Campo Expandido, Carolina De Vega, Buenos Aires-Berlin, and ÉLAN students of TU Berlin, TU Berlin

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PRO-mising // 27 June 2025, 16-18.00h
Landscape Salon ‘Meet the women of Landscape Architecture Europe’
// Presentation of the latest edition of the Landscape Architecture Europe (LAE) book series by Lisa Diedrich, LAE editor-in-chief, and Daphne de Bruijn, managing editor and graphic designer
// Round table statements by Almut Jirku, landscape critic and author Berlin, Marina Cervera, LAE board member and International Biennial of Landscape Architecture Barcelona, Dominika Tihanyi, LAE jury member and Uyrani Studio Budapest, Steffi Schüppel, IFLA World, BDLA Germany and Studio Cattaneo Schüppel Dresden
// Discussion moderated by Lisa Diedrich of ÉLAN, TU Berlin