DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space exhibition
12 March – 29 May 2016

The exhibition DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space presents options that the public has to shape its own cities. Increasingly critical citizens are demanding the right to have a say in decisions that affect public space. Following previous main emphases on the relationships between city and landscape as well as city and culture, the Academy is now concentrating on public space as a venue for working through processes of democratic transformation. The anonymous, virtual public space of the Internet and real streets and squares are both the places for the interests and concerns of the people and the subject of their rights to freedom. The exhibition is curated by Wilfried Wang, an architect and member of the Akademie der Künste.

Incorporating plans and models, photographs and films, DEMO:POLIS illustrates how architects, city planners, artists and the general public design and use public space. Examples range from Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, to the Campo de Cebada in Madrid, our work in The Galician Coastal Management Plan, to the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin. create the cities of the future.