Green Sofa Interviews

With the Green Sofa Interviews, the Institute for Urbanism has created a format that collects, documents and communicates international positions on urban design. The guests who have sat on the sofa so far – including national and international university lecturers, architects, planners and urbanists with practical experience, or representatives from administration and politics – were invited to spontaneously answer five fixed questions relating to the discipline of urbanism. From their positions and spontaneous reactions, a dense structure of issues and suggestions for possible transformation processes and future visions has emerged. While referring contents to each other in a relational manner, not only intersections but also missing connections appear, opening up other starting points for further dealing with the individual topics. In addition to the lively exchange and objective debate, the Green Sofa also offers the institute an opportunity to express the vitality and interdisciplinary nature of the discourse about the discipline. The conversations follow the logic of an art series and are to be understood as a collective and coherent work in which a kind of body of thought on current developments in urbanism is formed from complex perspectives, approaches and various fields of expertise.