In cooperation between endboss and the Chair of Urban Planning and Design at Leibniz Universität Hannover, the Slova University of Technology Faculty of Architecture and Design in Bratislava / Slovakia and the School of Architecture - National Technical University of Athens in Athens / Greece, an international summer school took place in the summer semester of 2022. This teaching constellation enabled the students to work in an interdisciplinary way, to engage with the urban space of Hanover and the topics of our conference “You promised me a City”.

As part of the international DesignBuild summer school, productive urban dissonances were identified during a three-month virtual part of the seminar and explored with all students in the week before the conference through architectural interventions in the field of tension between language and architecture at all locations in Hanover where the conference took place.

Students from the three universities from different European contexts (Athens, Bratislava and Hanover) each implemented their own designs in the urban space in international teams, negotiating different interests through teamwork, a culture of discussion and a willingness to cooperate and presenting them at the conference weekend.

endboss curated the summer school and accompanied the students in the week leading up to the conference. The seminar met with great interest among the students, especially because of its connection to the conference, which was attended by more than 40 students from all three countries.