Raum für Alle? Gesprächsrunde zu Stadtraum, Gestaltung und Zusammenleben

In the organizer's words:

With: Felix Egle (communication and social designer), Daniel Hopp (artist), Christine Tügel (board member of Jugendhilfe e. V.)
Moderation: Siri Keil (cultural journalist)

As part of the Hamburg Architecture Summer 2026

The symposium focuses on the area surrounding Hamburg Central Station as an exemplary site of urban densification and social negotiation. This is where issues of housing and non-housing, mental health, addiction, migration, participation and public space come together with particular intensity. With reference to Daniel Hopp's exhibition Fictional Healing, for which the artist developed documentary film scenes in dialog with people affected by addiction, the discussion opens up new perspectives on responsibility and design in the city.

The focus is on an interdisciplinary exchange between design, social work, civil society practice and research. The discussion will focus on how public space includes or excludes people - through architecture, planning, institutional structures and social narratives. Which spaces enable protection, dignity and belonging? How can accepting, low-threshold approaches be anchored in urban design, care and neighborhoods? And what role do participation and migrant perspectives play in these processes?

The symposium sees itself as an open space for thought between local practice and overarching social issues. It invites participants to re-read urban spaces - and to think together about how the city can be designed for everyone.