Iva Čukić and Ella Esslinger (ZAS*) - The Ministry of Space Meets the Ämtli Für Städtebau

The Ministry of Space (Belgrade) is the missing ministry.
A collective founded with the aim of coming up with and creating the cities in which we want to live.

The Ämtli für Städtebau (Zurich) has set itself the task of thinking the city beyond its borders. It is the anti-Amt and the small Amt that thinks bigger, at once bootleg and thesis, persiflage and confidant of the Amt. The smart little sibling that tells you where to go without being asked. The Ämtli is watched by the Amt and is at the same time its observer.

Sessions on Territory – Agency: Architecture in the Civil Service

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Goda Budvytyte

TEAM
Prof. Milica Topalović, Dr. Julio Paulos, Jakob Walter, Amélie Lambert

SESSIONS ON TERRITORY is a series of public debates exploring the intersection of architecture, territory, and political economy. The upcoming sessions will examine
architecture’s role in the public sector, featuring practitioners engaged with or working within state institutions. Together we will debate how architecture can help advance public interest in the broadest sense—encompassing the public good, public ownership, public space, and the public sphere—amid challenges from the state, market, technology, and a growing erosion of trust in social institutions.

Please find all lectures here: https://topalovic.arch.ethz.ch/Course...