Konstellationenwohnen Publikationsworkshop
Elena Schütz & Prof. Leonard Streich (Something Fantastic)
Deutsch/English, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS
Starts: 5.1.2026, 13 Uhr
Hardenbergstr. 33, Raum  353 & 306

Registration on Moodle starts 1.12.2025 / Anmeldung auf Moodle beginnt am 1.12.2025:
https://moodle.udk-berlin.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=2970
Moodle Enrollment Key / Einschreibeschlüssel: wohnen

Our design studio has been working on the concept of Constellations Housing, a more flexible approach to the housing unit, that can adapt to changes in use and spatial needs over time, Now we’d like to develop a publication around the topic, that should not only include our findings, but also a wide range of resources around the state of housing.
In building, two of the major crises are diametrically opposing each other: the social and the environmental. From a social perspective, we need more houses, especially affordable houses. The questions is: where to build them? And from what?
Because on the other side stands the ecological question: building contributes in all steps of its process chain massively to the ecological crisis, from exploitative extraction of natural resources over the emission of greenhouse gases for their transport and refinement to the destruction of natural habitats.
There is no simple solution to this dilemma, but a clear task is deriving from it for planners and architects: buildings – if their construction can not be avoided by using what is already there – should be planned so they can be used better and more effectively over a long period of time, and for varying usage cases.

We invite everybody who is interested in editing, photography, in doing research and writing text, transforming statistical numbers into graphs, or conceptual drawings, break down and visualize ideas and concepts, or work on layouts, to join us. Our goal is to get a big step closer to conceiving a publication that is supposed to be printed and published in early 2026.

Something Fantastic wurde 2010 von Elena Schütz, Julian Schubert und Leonard Streich aus der Überzeugung gegründet, dass Architektur mit Allem zusammenhängt und die daraus resultierende soziale, ökologische und politische Verantwortung zu einer anderen Praxis führen sollte. Das Oeuvre des un-disziplinär arbeitenden Büros umfasst neben der Konzeption und Gestaltung von Büchern, Ausstellungen, Möbeln, Gebäuden und Städtebau das Forschen und Lehren. Nach der Lehre am MAS Urban Design an der ETH Zürich leiten die Partner seit 2019 das Space Department an der Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. 2020/21 lebten und arbeiteten Something Fantastic in der Villa Massimo in Rom, wo sie mit Erika Mayr eine alternative Gartenbaufirma gründeten.