Exploring the intertwining of social life and natural life in the urban ecosystems of Berlin with the aim to create a ‘liveable city’.

The studio was framed around an enquiry into contemporary urban technification and the readings of philosopher Gernot Böhme. This urban technification was used as a vehicle for the studio to address the planetary-scale climate emergency, and our increased collective awareness of the entangled fragility of our earthly ecosystem. Paying special attention to Bruno Latour’s narrative of the ‘Critical Zone’, the term highlights the fact that all forms of life on Earth (human and nonhuman alike) coexist within a comparatively thin layer of the planet’s atmosphere. Such a ‘tight’ coexistence, human and nonhuman organisms are intimately enmeshed and codependent within this shared ‘zone’