In the summer semester of 2025, shortly after the announcement of funding cuts also affecting UdK Berlin, the Department of Architectural History and Architectural Theory within the Architecture degree programme at the College of Architecture, Media and Design, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), set out to search for the history and traces of graduates and teaching staff in our city. Where can traces of UdK architecture be found in the city? What would urban life in Berlin look like today without our university and without the Architecture degree programme, with its students and teachers, when considering the permanent and ephemeral works in their urban context? Would we still want to live in such a perforated city? Do we want to continue allowing everything to be taken away from us for which Berlin is known, and for which it is valued and loved? Berlin without the UdK would be: nothing. This statement becomes more than clear through a visualisation of selected buildings by our predecessors at the HfBK, HdK and UdK.

Les ateliers de bricolage are a loosely collaborating collective. The members work in different fields of design and are interested in the discovery, reappraisal and revalorisation of everyday situations, remnants and found objects. Most of the time, they make use of a limited set of elements – materials, tools, techniques and methods – which are not applied in a professional manner. Instead, they use these elements according to their own logic and with the help of their limited personal knowledge and skills, adapting and transforming them in favour of a new meaning appropriate to the respective task.