Program Forum
26 September 2023
CITY – COUNTRY – AIR
Industrial Heritage Landscapes of Aviation
History and perspectives
AirportTempelhof
CHECK-IN Visitor Center
Platz der Luftbrücke 5, C2
12101 Berlin-Tempelhof
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Guided tours
CONFERENCE
Introduction
Setting the tone
Panel 1 – Places of aviation
Panel 2 – Aviation landscapes
Panel 3 – Airports as a resource
EXCURSION
Monday, 25 Sept. 2023
(only in German)
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
The Forum’s program will be complemented by a full-day excursion in cooperation with Kulturerbe-Netz.Berlin to largely unknown aviation sites in Berlin. These include the airplane hangars in Karlshorst, the former aviation research center in Adlershof and the historical airfield in Johannisthal. A vintage bus will take us to each of the respective aviation sites.
The excursion is fully booked.
CONFERENCE
Tuesday, 26 Sept. 2023
9:30 am – 5:30 pm
GUIDED TOURS
9:00 – 9:30 am
Meeting point and registration at the visitor center CHECK-IN.
The guided tour is fully booked.
9:30 – 10:30 am
Start of the guided tours
»THF as a place of the future – history and perspectives«
REGISTRATION
10:30 – 11:00 am
On-site registration
10:45 am
Opening of the digital conference rooms
INTRODUCTION
11:00 – 11:50 am
WELCOME
Fabian Schmitz-Grethlein, CEO
Tempelhof Projekt GmbH (THF)
Prof. Petra Kahlfeldt
Senate Building Director, Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing
Prof. Dr. Dorothee Haffner, Head of bzi
Christiane Baum, CEO
European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH)
»Introduction to the forum topic«
Prof. Joseph Hoppe, Head of bzi
Karsten Feucht, bzi
SETTING THE TONE
11:50 – 12:15 am
»What comes next? An international perspective on the redevelopment of disused airports«
Dr. Max Hirsh, Managing Director of the Airport City Academy
BREAK
12:15 am – 1:15 pm
PANEL 1
PLACES OF AVIATION
1:15 – 2:15 Uhr pm
»Prestige buildings of aviation. Airship hangars as a global phenomenon«
Dr. Roland Fuhrmann, Freelance artist/building historian
»Ciphers and icons: 100 years of airport construction in Europe«
Christina Czymay, Berlin State Monuments Office
Moderation: Dr.-Ing. Roland May, SPP 2255 „Heritage Construction“, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
Dr. Roland Fuhrmann: Abtract + CV Christina Czymay: Abstract + CV Dr.-Ing. Roland May: CVBREAK
2:15 – 2:45 pm
PANEL 2
AVIATION LANDSCAPES
2:45 – 3:45 pm
»Aviation as the intersect between civil & military traffic, technology, infrastructures«
Prof. Dr. Harald Bodenschatz, Urban planner and social scientist, Center for Metropolitan Studies at TU Berlin
»Airports and cityscapes«
Dr. Johanna Sonnenburg, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin / Tempelhof Projekt GmbH
Moderation: Anna Lena Joisten, Tempelhof Projekt GmbH
Prof. Dr. Harald Bodenschatz: Abstract + CV Dr. Johanna Sonnenburg: Abstract + CV Anna Lena Joisten: CVBREAK
3:45 – 4:15 pm
PANEL 3
AIRPORTS AS A RESOURCE
4:15 – 5:15 pm
»The transformation of the former Tegel Airport into the Urban Tech Republic«
Gudrun Sack, CEO Tegel Projekt GmbH
»Traditional places – New concepts. Perspectives for climate-friendly regional aviation«
Dr. Kay Plötner, Team leader for economics and transport at Bauhaus Aviation
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Dorothee Haffner
Gudurn Sack: Abstract + CV Dr. Kay Plötner: Abstract + CVSUMMARY
5:15 – 5:30 pm
Prof. Joseph Hoppe