Teufelsberg 2026
From 17 to 19 September 2026, Teufelsberg will become a temporary working site for people and organisations dealing with questions that cut across responsibilities, sectors and time horizons. As a partner, Teufelsberg brings not only a striking and unconventional setting, but a spirit of openness, artistic experimentation, and collective reinvention that will shape the Camp's atmosphere and inform its conversations.
From a Shared Direction to Carrying the Work Forward
The program takes a journey through Berlin. On Teufelsberg, the landscape, history, and geographical distance create a unique “Campsite” for perception and exploration.
At Medulla, these questions return to an urban collaboration space where we gather the field. On the third day, back on Teufelsberg, further refined questions become next steps.
The walks up and down the Mountain on Thursday and Saturday are part of the Camp: these walks through Grunewald serve as the shared opening and closing rituals for days spent on Teufelsberg.
Note that session blocks include multiple sessions taking place simultaneously. Please select only one session per time slot by registering for each individually on Luma.
Thursday, 17 September
Teufelsberg · 14:00 – 19:00
14:00 – 15:00 · Setting out together
Walk up to Teufelsberg
Our meeting point is the Würst’l stand just outside the Heerstraße S-Bahn station. From there, we walk together through Grunewald and up the Mountain.
15:00 – 15:45 · Arriving and finding our bearings
Welcome Session · Beatgarden
The Camp community gathers for the first time: an orientation for the three days ahead, an encounter with the place and a shared opening. Finger food and drinks will be generously provided by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
16:00 – 18:15 · Choosing a resilience container
Five sessions take place in parallel:
Wenn’s drauf ankommt …
How can foresight, participation, and public sector innovation help cities remain capable of action under increasingly difficult conditions?
Becoming Tree
Once an urban tree is understood as a living relationship and a form of public infrastructure, what changes in public decision-making?
Reimagining Public Libraries
How can Berlin’s libraries strengthen resilience while protecting already stretched teams from carrying even more responsibility?
Exploring Teufelsberg’s Military History
A walk with ex-West German personnel once stationed here: How can place-based stories help us stay in conversation as international relations become more unstable?
Live Drawing the Other
Drawing as a way to notice how we see—at a place built for surveillance.
18:15 – 19:00 · Reflecting and sensemaking
Walk down from Teufelsberg
The shared walk through the forest back to Heerstraße S-Bahn station offers time to continue conversations and process the day.
Friday, 18 September
Medulla · Dresdener Straße 113B Courtyard · 10:00 – 22:00
On Friday, we move from the forest into the heart of Berlin: the Kreuzberg / Mitte border. The day creates space for three longer working sessions and culminates in a shared Assembly.
10:00 – 12:00 · Recognising interdependencies
Risiken im Zusammenspiel
What would a future climate risk assessment need to recognise when the next event hits a system already altered by previous pressures?
13:00 – 16:00 · Going deeper and replenishing capacity
Two sessions take place in parallel:
Life Repair Kit: Tools for Tough Times
What keeps us alive, adaptable and capable of action, while moving resilience beyond the expectation to endure in perpetuity?
Planetary Berlin: Governing Hydrological Continuities
How can water be governed at the scale of its actual relationships – i.e. transcending institutional boundaries?
18:00 – 22:00 · Gathering the field
Public Vitality Field Assembly
What becomes visible when we view the Camp as a connected field of questions, relationships and action?
The Assembly brings session hosts, participants, partners and other contributors together. It connects insights from the sessions, surfaces tensions and explores possible next steps.
Please bring your own drinks and, if you can, food to share.
Saturday, 19 September
Teufelsberg · 14:00 – 20:00
14:00 – 14:45 · Returning together
Walk up to Teufelsberg
Our second shared ascent begins once again from the Würst’l stand outside the Heerstraße S-Bahn station.
15:00 – 18:00 · Working on concrete possibilities
Five sessions take place in parallel:
When Speed Meets Public Voice
How can public participation become part of accelerated housing decisions while overcoming the delays the Bau-Turbo legislation seeks to address?
Blackout Krisenkommunikation
How can crisis communication remain reliable and inclusive when the infrastructures it usually depends on fail?
Maps of Ruins and Dreams
What becomes visible when we map relationships, gaps and tensions alongside the recognised structures of a system?
Berlin Heat Risk Clinic
How can Berlin connect existing capacities, lived experience and institutional action into a shared, long-term capability? Participation by invitation only.
Lebendige Stadt als gemeinsame Aufgabe
How can responsibility and resources be distributed so that living urban spaces can be sustained and developed as commons over time?
18:00 – 19:00 · Distilling what matters
Closing Session · Beatgarden
We bring together insights from across the three days. What deserves to be carried forward, who needs to be involved, and which relationships require care beyond the Camp?
19:00 – 20:00 · Returning to the city
Walk down from Teufelsberg
The shared descent closes the Camp—and marks the transition into the next 100 days.