Symposium Berlin plant. Stunde Null
Saturday, Jun 20, 2026, 1 pm
With Michael Augustin, Ralf Bock, Greg Castillo, Andrea Contursi, Simone Hain, Christa Kamleithner, Christina Lindemann, Philipp Oswalt, Hansjörg Schneider, Axel Zutz, moderated by Thomas Flierl
Alongside the exhibition Berlin plant. Stunde Null, n.b.k. presents a one-day symposium at silent green Kulturquartier. It examines the many facets of the Kollektivplan and its development in relation to Stunde Null and the urgent demands for a radical new beginning for German society. In 1946, the Kollektivplan was at the cutting edge of urban planning and at the same time ahead of its time. Drawing on current research, the lectures explore the plan’s reference models, hidden biographical networks before, during, and after the Nazi period, and its divergent reception in East and West Berlin. Special attention is given to the Kollektivplan’s forward-looking impulses in urban planning, architecture, ecology, urban landscape, and participation. Looking back at this past vision for the future opens a space for retrospective and forward-looking discussion about our society’s present capacity for action and renewal, and asks: What next?
Program
1 pm
Ein Plan wie keiner zuvor. Der Kollektivplan von 1946 und das Ausstellungsprojekt Berlin plant. Erster Bericht als Vergegenwärtigung und Gesprächsangebot
Introduction by Hansjörg Schneider, artist, Berlin
1:30 pm
berlin (1993)
Poem by Michael Augustin, author, Bremen
2 pm
Urban Planning in the Context of Non-Utopian Postwar Orders: Hans Scharoun’s Unrealized Urban Ideals for Berlin and Walter Gropius’ Abandoned Plan for the Redevelopment of Frankfurt/Main
Lecture by Greg Castillo, Professor of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
2:30 pm
Die Rezeption des Kollektivplans 1946 in Ost und West
Lecture by Simone Hain, Professor of Architectural and Planning History, Berlin
3 pm
Städtebau und -planung am Bauhaus (Bauhaus, MASCH und CIAM-Analyse Berlin)
Lecture by Andrea Contursi, architect and researcher, studio_MMSD, Düren
4 pm
Das Kollektiv. Biografische Netzwerke
Lecture by Simone Hain, Professor of Architectural and Planning History, Berlin
4:30 pm
Das grüne Berlin. Das Stadt-Landschafts-Konzept Reinhold Lingners und des Kollektivplans
Lecture by Axel Zutz, landscape gardener, garden and planning historian, Berlin
5 pm
Hans Scharoun. Bauen für die Demokratie – Gestalt finden für die offene Gesellschaft
Lecture by Ralf Bock, architect and author, BauWerkStadt, Vienna
5:30 pm
Das Fortwirken des Kollektivplans in der Stadtplanung der DDR bis zum Generalbebauungsplan von Berlin / DDR
Lecture by Christina Lindemann, architect and urban planner, Werkstadt, Berlin
6.15 pm
P.L.A.N. (Wie planen im Anthropozän, wie planen in Berlin?)
Discussion with Simone Hain (Professor of Architectural and Planning History, Berlin), Christa Kamleithner (architectural historian and cultural scholar, Kunsthistorisches Institut of the University of Zurich), and Philipp Oswalt (Professor of Architectural Theory and Design, University of Kassel)
Moderated by Thomas Flierl (architectural and planning historian, Berlin)
Free admission, no registration required
