The Akademie c/o was an event format dedicated to the reflection on the meta-discourse of theory and practice, recognition and action. It was founded as an subsidiary of 0093 a42.org, the master’s program for Architecture and Urban Studies directed by Arno Brandlhuber at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. Guided by a political interest in knowledge, the series aimed to offer theoretical models and discuss them as the basis for social action. Spatial production is not understood as the addition of aesthetic, economic, and constructive elements, but rather as the “ordering of social relations through building.” The events often related to architectural phenomena and situations in the Berlin Republic. The term “Berlin Republic” refers not only to the city of Berlin, but—as opposed to the Bonn Republic—to the time since 1989, or starting with the Decision on the Capital (Hauptstadtbeschluss) in 1991. Spatial production of the Berlin Republic therefore includes phenomena in rural areas, other cities, as well as supranational phenomena that affect the relationships between people. Read more