In the framework of their Ba thesis, students are invited to take part in AIV Schinkel Competition 2026: “Luckenwalde – Rethinking a city in transition”. Since 1852, this competition has been held every year, challenging young architects, engineers, and artists in nine specialist areas (urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, art and construction, engineering, etc.) with the aim of challenging their creativity and im-agination to solve future-oriented planning tasks. In each discipline, a Schinkel Prize is awarded for outstanding technical and scientific achievements. The prize serves to promote young technical and scientific talent. The Competition also benefits Berlin and its region in their search for their future shape. The diversity of ideas promotes and en-riches the planning culture.
In 2026, the focus is on the Brandenburg city of Luckenwalde – with a visionary model district that is intended to provide impetus for future-oriented urban development. The bachelor colloquium will explore this site through strategies of soil-based urban renewal, environmental health and climate adaptation. We approaches Luckenwalde’s “Karree” from the ground, with soils as a lens through which the city is put in the perspective of sustainable and equitable futures. At the interface of the geo-, bio- and atmospheres, soils form thin, fragile and dynamic layers which lay the founda-tion of ecosystems across natural and cultivated landscapes, but also inhabited territories.
- Trainer/in: Antoine Vialle