Brico-Brunch / The Houses of Happiness

The Brasilian DesCentro Network are hosts to transmediale's performative public brunch event with leading architects and thinkers, poets and bloggers, transforming the HKW into a temporary autonomous zone of tropical foliage and topical debate. Fusing the threads from the transmediale.09 Making/Thinking conference and Digital Greenhouse salon DesCentro open the doors of discourse and performance in a collaborative culinary experience focussing on the global futures of society, culture and consumption. Join Alexandre Freire and José Balbino of DesCentro together with members of the bricolabs network in building a House of Happiness!

planned culinary construction schedule includes ...

11:00 -  Brunch opens with Brasilian inspired treats, drinks and soothing warm beverages ... Come early, settle down with tapioca, Bahian hospitality, radio waves, sample dialogues and other delights.

12:00 -  opening reflections and introductions served by Saskia Sassen

12:30 - Collective acts - DesCentro, Brazilian networks and the Houses of Happiness

13:15 - performative reading by Algerian web poet Lamis Saidi

13:30 - Where do we go for shelter? Conversation with architects and urban interventionists, Francis Kéré and raumtaktik (Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger)

15:00 - Nomadism of ideas, human capital in motion. A dialogue with blogger Isaac Mao

Intermezzos with feedback, open discussion and interventions ...