As part of the Bachelor’s design studio “Porosity Matters”, selected speakers will hold short, impulse seminar lectures in the summer semester 2026.

Organised by Andreas Körner & Charlotte Thorn, four hybrid mini lectures will take place on Wednesdays as part of the studio, hosted by the Department of Experimental Architecture – Studio Prof. Marjan Colletti.
The invited speakers are architects and researchers operating in fields ranging from architecture to digital fabrication, landscape, flows of matter, and material ecologies.

15/4/2026 – 10:00
Henry Aldridge (University College London)
Material Flows / [ZOOM]

13/5/2026 – 13:00
Camille Breuil & Luca Beltrame (Beltrame Breuil Studio, dieAngewandte)
Architecture for the Landscape

20/5/2026 – 13:00 (hybrid)
Jade Bailey & Oliver Thomas Hamedinger (JOYH, dieAngewandte)
From Resolution to Reality: Stakeholders in a Collective Future

27/5/2026 – 16:00
Magdalena Pietryszyn (Foil&Soil)
When Soil Turns Synthetic: Material Ecologies Across Scales

Zoom links will be provided closer to the dates. The lectures are part of the taught design studio and will be public, but the comments and Q&A will be limited to the students attending the course.

Course: 848145 PJ Design Studio/Bachelor’s Thesis “Porosity Matters”
Teaching: Andreas Körner & Charlotte Thorn