Hanging gardens of Berlin

What if our cities were designed not only for humans, but for plants, fungi, pollinators, and water too? Hanging Gardens of Berlin reimagines public space through care, stewardship, and coexistence, asking how architecture can move beyond extraction and help create regenerative and resilient urban futures.

Hanging Gardens of Berlin reimagines the Landwehrkanal as a living ecological infrastructure: a network of suspended community gardens that combines urban food production, biodiversity, and water remediation. The gardens are envisioned as biodegradable, mycelium-based planters, irrigated with canal water and designed to create new habitats for plants, insects, and pollinators.

Presented directly along the Landwehrkanal, the exhibition brings this speculative proposal into the landscape it seeks to transform. A large-scale model of the canal, a prototype mycelium planter, drawings, and visualisations make the project tangible and invite visitors to explore its ecological, social, and spatial possibilities.

The exhibition is also a space for conversation and collective imagination. Residents, passers-by, local initiatives, and environmental groups are invited to contribute ideas, share local knowledge, and discuss how Berlin’s existing infrastructure could support both human and non-human life.

Rather than seeing water, public space, and urban infrastructure as resources to be used, Hanging Gardens of Berlin asks how they might become shared spaces of care. Through relationships between people, plants, fungi, pollinators, and water, the project explores how architecture can contribute to regenerative urban environments that are cultivated, cared for, and shaped collectively.