Throughout 2024, our team at Cement Fields have been meeting with a few of the wonderful people behind Floating University Berlin as part of our shared project Wetland.
Through a series of online reading groups and two week-long labs in Kent and Berlin, we’ve come together to explore and reflect on the practices of care and hospitality we use to engage communities and redefine our former industrial locations.
Condensing several months' worth of rich conversation, shared learning and discussion was always going to be a challenge, but through the inaugural episode of our new podcast - Notes From The Field - we’ve attempted to summarise our time together.
This episode invites the listener into our week-long exchange in Berlin, which took place during a September heatwave in the rainwater retention pool of the former Berlin Tempelhof airport, the site which floating has called home since 2019. This trip marked the culmination of our time together, and as such the moment when the threads of our exchange began to gather. Over 36 minutes we attempt to encapsulate the spirit and potential of Wetland and provide a window into our shared practice.