spheres of Post-Urban Spaces. 8 Essays and 4 Conversations
spheres collates perspectives on spatial and urban matters. It evolved from the work of Berlin based platform STRATA, which was founded in 2023, and organises urban and architectural explorations in Berlin and beyond.
As a community platform, spheres enables synergetic momentum amongst the authors it includes – who all come from diverse practices. The narratives of these formats encourage the scrutinising of social, ecological, and spatial paradigms.
Our essays and conversations portray disruptions in the urban system, the blind spots in the field, the holes in the fence, places that offend the top-down programmes of urban governing. The Right to the City reverberates and re-occurs as the Right to Discontinuities today. When applied, it produces post-urban spaces, which have the potential to allow the emergence of new social bonds, spontaneous encounters, and places of proximity. These spaces – whether physical or virtual – can only be produced through constant negotiation.
Alexander Mehren / Alice Paris / Architects4THF / Fabian Herzog / Göran Hugo Olsson / Greifswalder DIY / Jenny Contreras / Lorenz Krauth / Maria Freimann / Marie Montexier / Moritz Schloten / Roxy Farhat / Sylwia Janka Poltorak