Urban Episodes: The Drama of Everyday Space
Based in Berlin, registered with the Chamber of Architects, my practice moves across architecture, spatial art, and filmmaking - fields I explore through a shared lens of public space and the built environment.
My experience includes collaborations with architecture studios, artist collectives, and filmmakers, as well as exhibiting my work in publications, galleries, and public spaces, and giving lectures on my early projects.
Relevant projects include MURMURS, an exhibition on dreams and architecture presented at the Women in Architecture Berlin Festival; Circles, Squares, Corners, Moments at KINDL Berlin, where I was the exhibition architect; and FRAGILE, an art installation shown at GlogauAIR as part of the Berlin Artist Prize. The public art installation WOMB at the 48h Neukölln Festival Berlin was also selected for film presentation at the Megacities Shortdocs Film Festival in Paris and was a finalist at Música x Arquitectura - Open House Barcelona.
Another notable work is The Benches of Ballyloughlane, a film screened at Palas Cinema in Galway, Ireland, and recently featured on NOWNESS. It was awarded 3rd Prize at the Copenhagen Architecture Festival, nominated at the Lift-Off Film Festival Berlin, and shown as part of the Film Architektura Urbanismus Festival.
Across all projects, my visual and conceptual approach combines construction leftover materials and architectural fragments with motion. These works engage with urban contexts and rely on public interaction and intervention to fully unfold.
My focus is to capture reactions and anticipations when architectural elements appear, disappear, or shift within urban space. A familiar path is blocked by a construction fence, someone is looking for a lost domestic furniture, the entrance to a metro station is renovated. These are the kinds of often overlooked moments, urban episodes, that trigger informal reactions from local communities: support, confusion, resistance, gossip. Most of the time, they fade quickly or go unheard.
Inspired by the films of Jonathan Meades, I want to use humor, empathy, and observation, believing that architectural thinking doesn’t need to be dry or elite. My goal is to reflect on how people respond to urban changes: physically, emotionally and socially. What narratives or frictions surface when the city shifts, even slightly?
A previous example I worked on, is the short film, The Benches of Ballyloughane. Two brutalist benches, looking like upscaled Borne Béton Corbusier lamps, had been installed on a beach. I initially focused on their dramatic presence, isolating them from context but after short research, I found out that the real story will emerge from the social commentary around them. Locals were giving playful, critical and full empathy opinions on Reddit for the shared space they now occupied. The film became a dialogue: not just between the two objects, but between design and public imagination. Some months later, as predicted, one bench was covered in paint.
I plan to identify rapidly changing, overlooked urban sites and produce responsive studies: combining video documentation, storytelling and/or minimal interventions using the community voice as the storyteller. They are speculative but grounded in real material and real communities, particular for it’s own space and daily routines. I hope to contribute to larger conversations about spatial justice, public agency, and the ethics of intervention.
