In the first panel discussion Creating Values - Adaptive Re-use, Remigiusz Otrzonsek (Senior Partner HPP) discussed with Reiner Nagel (Chairman of the Board, Bundesstiftung Baukultur, Berlin), Dr Sebastian Seelig (Partner, BuroHappold | Cities Berlin) and Volker Raatz MRICS (Authorised Signatory, die developer, Berlin) the question: "What added value is created for urban society through the transformation of existing architecture". The second panel discussion Cradle+ was dedicated to the topic of "How can each of us make our contribution to changing the levers in politics, business and practice? To adapt the architecture business to the pressing problems of our time, to build sustainably and circularly?". Moderated by Rebekka Pottgüter (Head of Communications HPP), an interesting discussion developed between Antonino Vultaggio (Senior Partner HPP), Nora Sophie Griefahn (Managing Director of Cradle to Cradle NGO, Berlin) and Carsten Boell (Managing Director of INTERBODEN Innovative Gewerbewelten GmbH & Co. KG, Ratingen). And at the third panel discussion Urban Transition, Werner Sübai (Senior Partner HPP) got into conversation with Gudrun Sack (Managing Director of Tegel Projekt GmbH, Berlin), Dr Johanna Sonnenburg (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin), Rudi Scheuermann (Director Cities Business at Arup in Germany, Berlin) and Robert Sabelfeld (BPD Immobilienentwicklung GmbH, author of the study Health and Urban Development, Frankfurt) with questions like "What characterises a healthy, sustainable and liveable city? How can it strengthen social cohesion?" Or: "How do we deal with what already exists?" – questions, to which answers were sought.
The curated panel discussion series was an invitation to all interested parties to become part of the discussion on how we must fundamentally change architecture and master planning in the future in the wake of the social, ecological and economic challenges of our time. Our successful six-week exhibition "Re/View the Next: A Discursive Collage on Aims, Challenges and Innovations" at the Aedes Gallery in Berlin was complemented by the three well-attended panel discussion events – and we received many interesting impulses for looking ahead.
