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about

Sebastian Díaz de León (he/him), born in Mexico City, now lives in Berlin, where he engages in a spatial practice that intersects architecture, film, and photography. He explores existing structures to envision a socially and climate-just future, addressing contemporary spatial challenges. As part of the collective ufoufo, he co-edited the book "VISITING - Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller" (2022) and contributed to the accompanying exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, Kassel, and Zürich. Recent projects from the collective include ABRISSSTOP! (2023), which opposes building demolitions, and IVRY-AFFAIRES (2023), a video installation highlighting the stories of Ivry-sur-Seine's inhabitants. Currently, he teaches architectural design at Universität der Künste Berlin.

contact

email
sdiazdeleon

ufoufo.eu
ufoufo

andersurania.org
andersurania


screenings
2024

IVRY–AFFAIRES at group exhibition Under Pressure, Adalbertstr 9 Berlin

Ghostly Tracks, at festival of well beeing, Mäusebunker Berlin

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! at hallo kiosk hamburg
2023

IMAGE DE VILLE Festival,carte blanche,Aix en Provence

CONTAMINATIONS, at Climate Care Festival, Floating University, Berlin

IVRY–AFFAIRES at Haus der Statistik, Berlin

IVRY–AFFAIRES at Centre Jeanne- Hachette Ivry-sur-Seine, France

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! - at Spektakel auf der Autobahn, own your city - urbane praxis woche, Berlin

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht!at Delphi Space, Freiburg

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! at Kurfürstenstr Berlin

exhibitions
2024

Under Pressure, group exhibition at Adalbertstr 9 Berlin

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, at Architekturforum Zürich

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! at Profitopolis,
Museum der Dinge, Berlin

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller at Kunsthochschule Kassel

2023

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller at freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg

ABRISSSTOP/Down with Demolition protest fest, performance, Film screening, Kurfürstenstr. Berlin

2022

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller at DAZ Berlin

2020

Les Gonflables at KUNST RAUM STADT Univeristät der Künste berlin
2019

Oberweissbacher Lichterfest at making futures

lectures/talks
2024
Lecture and Discussion at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) on Invitation of Anne Lacaton, Madrid (ESP)
curators talk at architekturforum zürich

curators talk at Kunsthochschule Kassel
2023

Guest lecture at UdK Berlin, on invitation by summacumfemma

curators talk at freie akademie der künste hamburg

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Talk at IEB, TU Braunschweig, Prof. Dan Schürch
2022

curators talk at DAZ

residencies/fundings
2023

Goethe Institut - visual arts project fund

Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis

publications

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller,
Berlin 1966-89.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Franz und Walther König


press

arte twist 29.09.2024

nextroom.at 01/2024: ufo ufo - Initiative gegen Abriss 

DBZ 02/2023: “Gebauten Raum erforschen“ 

Baunetz Campus: ”Einige Fragen an“

BauNetz.de, 07.12.2023: Substanzielles Umdenken ︎︎︎

Taz, 28.11.2023: Abrisspläne in der City West

Bauwelt,  24.2023: Endlich umdenken!︎︎︎

BauNetz.de , 20.11.2023: Allianz gegen Abrisse︎︎︎

Tagesspiegel, 16.11.2023: Abriss an der Urania

Berliner Kurier,  16.11. 2023: Streit um Abriss

Berliner Zeitung, 16.11.2023: Umstrittener Abriss

Deutschlandfunk Kultur,  12.11.2023: “Petition gegen
Abriß an der Urania Berlin” ︎︎︎

nd, 9.11.2023: “Kahlschlag in Berlin”

taz, 23.02.2023: Rettet die West Platten↗

Tagesspiegel 22.02.2023: Kunst gegen Abriss↗

rbb abendschau, 10.04.2023: Umweltschonender Stadtumbau gefordert↗

art in berlin, 03.03.2023: Monopoly goes real↗

dérive N° 87 (Apr - Juni / 2022): »Wir sind die
Architekten für die Situationen, wo die Sonne von unten scheint.« ↗

Tagesspiegel, 04.03.2023: Verdichter der Großstadt↗

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 09.04.2022: Ganz furchtbar überlegt

taz, 12.07.2022: Werkübersicht des Architekten-Duo Baller

monopol magazin, 16.06.2023: Architekten Inken und Hinrich Baller











ncaittuyre – symbiotic city
2020

Master Thesis, UdK Berlin 
Collages, Video, Drawings

supervisors: alexandra ranner, jeanne-françoise fischer, jean-philippe vassal, markus bader

What could a dense city with a maximum of balconies, gardens, terraces, accessible roofs and wintergardens look like? a living space for plants, animals and humans?

the ground floor is public, the buildings barely touch the ground and leave space for anything to grow. above a hybrid and dense structure, a city in the city, a city of short distance and relations. the house as a little city, providing many things a city needs. a vivid collage of different climates, atmospheres, programs and relations. greywater is filtered in a plant sewage treatment to water the gardens and greenhouses on the roof. rainwater is collected and filtered in swimming basins. every living unit, every staircase is naturaly ventilated. evergreen trees and bushes provide lee. a waterbasin in the courtyard for a humid climate and cool air in summer. movable façades, sliding doors, adapt the relation to the outisde, according to the seasons. every flat has a double orientation for natural cross ventilation, and a multitude of light situations. the heated space can be reduced to a minimum by using wintergardens as thermal buffers & as an intermediate climate between out- and inside. balconies provide shadow in summer and serve as immediate relation to the outside. climbing trellis attached to the railings provide living space for animals and plants.

couldn’t we densify the city differently? unsealing ground, improving biodiversity and the city climate, providing living space for multiple species? 



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