Incorporating plans, models, photographs and films, the exhibition and book DEMO:POLIS by Akademie der Künste Berlin illustrates how architects, city planners, artists, students and the general public design and use public space. Examples range from Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, to Granby Park in Dublin, to the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin. The exhibition shows spatial designs that affect both small squares as well as entire strips of coast. It displays documentation from demonstrations and critical art interventions and gives insights into the work of successful bottom-up initiatives for safeguarding public spaces. Viewers are invited to take part in interactive discussion events to co-create the cities of the future. On display are works by Barkow & Leibinger, Foster + Partners, Hans Haacke, A2 Architects and Seán Harrington Architects, Kleihues + Kleihues, Lacaton & Vassal, Andrés Mignucci, Elfi Mikesch, Rozana Montiel, Michael Najjar, Sadar + Vuga, Michael van Valkenburgh, Wermke/Leinkauf, Zuloark, et al.
