The Aedes Architecture Forum and the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin will present a series of laboratory-talks called ‘Missions in Architecture’. These are four laboratory-talks given by renowned speakers from the Netherlands and Germany. The speakers will generate revolutionary future scenarios as to the multidimensionality of architecture – in order to highlight the missions in architecture.

4. Laboratory-Talk:
Mosques, Migration and Myths – The Role Of Architecture In A Socio-Cultural Context

Venue: Aedes am Pfefferberg, Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2008, 7 pm

Laboratory-Talk on Euro-Islamic Architecture curated by Martien de Vletter, Publisher SUN-Architecture, Amsterdam, with:

Paul Böhm, Architect, Architecture Office Paul Böhm, Köln
Wilfried van Winden, Architect, Molenaar & Van Winden Architects, Delft
Hüsnü Yegenoglu, Architect, Amsterdam/Ass.Professor TU Eindhoven
Martien de Vletter, Publisher, SUN-Architecture, Amsterdam

Moderation: Dr. Christian Welzbacher, Art Historian and Author of “Euro-Islam Architecture” (2008)
Welcome: Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin and Ferdinand Dorsman, Counsellor for Press and Culture, The Royal Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin

The forth laboratory-talk will explore questions of identity, migration, religion and parallel societies by discussing constructions of mosques in Europe: if architecture is communication in the broadest sense, what do mosques communicate to the general public? To what extent does architecture contribute to identity? Is architecture a segregative or integrative factor to society? Does architecture foster the creation of parallel societies or does it promote international understanding? What, on the other hand, innovative impulse could it deliver? What is the future of Euro-Islamic architecture?

Together with her conversational partners from the Netherlands and Germany, Martien de Vletter will discuss the issues of conservatism, dogma and religion and deconstruct the “Islamic phobia”. She will as well analyse the cultural, social and ideological dimensions of architecture and urban planning and its impact on people: Can architecture encourage any dialogue or does it concrete a one-way street?

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The series of laboratory-talks is a cooperation with the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin and is supported by the Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur, forbo, brandeins and minimum einrichten as well as by the Aedes cooperation partners Zumtobel, ArcelorMittal, Busch-Jäger Elektro GmbH, carpetconcept and AXOR hansgrohe.