Semester Exhibition Rundgang

R:33 – Back to the Futures

We are experiencing a time in which the future no longer represents a promise of progress for many people, but instead means uncertainty, excessive demands or threats. The future is increasingly seen as something that is either "managed" technocratically or "sold" ideologically – instead of as a shared space of possibility that we can actively shape. This has far-reaching consequences for the planning professions in particular: When the future is socially narrowed, the space in which we can develop our creative, social and cultural power shrinks.

With "Back to the Futures", we are consciously countering this development. We want to enter into a discussion with students, teachers and the public about the futures of the planning professions themselves – and what role we can actively play in order to regain new scope for action and social relevance.

Rundgang 2025 is intended to be a place where the future does not appear as something that happens to us or is standardized from the outside, but as something that we can think about, shape and create together. This attitude is directly linked to the core competencies of our profession: thinking in scenarios, working with uncertainty, designing alternative possibilities, telling stories about the future.

Program

09.02.26Opening of the Rundgang R:33 (evening)
10.02.26Start of the exhibition (noon)
11.02.26

New Year's reception

Presentation of the Pfeiffer Prize for Architecture

Presentation of the Cook Bruns Prize

(afternoon and evening)

12.02.26

End of the exhibition

Rundgang party

(evening)

Further information

Archive I Rundgang

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