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A clarion call to radically shake up Berlin’s housing market through the upcoming referendum to take back thousands of apartments into public ownership - and to create better protections for migrants, LGBTQIA+ community and sex workers.

Thinking back to my studies reminds me of states of confusion and uncertainty. The former is marked by the questionable aim of finding out what would ‘please’ my professor, while the latter stems from the unpredictability of the future that awaited me after my studies. I studied at one of

Everything but a Carpet.

On the compulsion to overcome the finished object.

„ARCHITEKTIEREN“, WAS HEISST DAS? Im Deutschen gab es lange kein Verb für die Aktivitä- ten von Architekten. „Bauen“ lautete die logische Beschreibung. Die Antwort verweist schon auf ein, im systemthe- oretischen Sinn, nach Niklas Luhmann geschlossenes, sich selbst erhaltendes, autopoieti- sches System [1]. Der Code nach dem in Systemen

A new architectural design game called DERA [1] is based on the integration of socio-economic factors and non-human agents, updating traditional architectural design tools [2] and fulfilling what parametric design could have been: architecture less as a finished object and more as the ordering of context and content.