Registration Trees, Time, Architecture! Summer School

25 AUGUST - 7 SEPTEMBER 2025

From August 25 to September 7 2025, the transdisciplinary summer school 'Verwaldung Kunstareal' (Afforestation Kunstareal) invites you to consider the future of our cities and help shape it.

What might a city look like if it grew with trees rather than over them?
The summer school invites you to rethink the Munich Kunstareal as a place of long-term ecological, social, and creative transformation. Taking inspiration from Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks and the documenta urbana, the programme is aimed at young designers and thinkers who view the city as a living, collective process rather than a finished object.

The summer school is open to students and recent graduates of architecture, landscape architecture, art, design, engineering, horticulture, arboriculture, and related disciplines, as well as anyone who wants to contribute to the creation of sustainable urban spaces.

The two-week programme comprises a three-day excursion and ten days of intensive collaborative work in Munich's Kunstareal district. Participants live, learn and create together in workshops, theory sessions, film screenings, walks and open discussions.

The focus is on the tree as a living, growing being, not as a decorative symbol. The question is how we can take its temporal dimensions — slowness, growth and duration — seriously, and translate them creatively into long-term processes. Rather than temporary interventions, the emphasis is placed on permanent perspectives that visibly impact urban spaces.

The resulting projects will then be presented to the public as part of the Trees, Time, Architecture! exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der Pinakothek der Moderne for a week.

The Summer School is a collaborative, process-oriented field of experimentation. Ideas emerge from everyday life and creative dialogue. Rather than seeking quick solutions, we are exploring new ways of thinking and designing the relationship between the city, nature and time.

Anyone interested in engaging across disciplines is warmly invited to help us plant new futures.

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