Berlin is short of foot­bridges and yet has so many rivers and other in­ter­est­ing sites that are cry­ing out for a bridge. Work­ing with the Berlin Bridge De­part­ment of the In­sti­tute of Con­cep­tual and Struc­tural De­sign at the TU Berlin, we have iden­ti­fied six cen­tral lo­ca­tions that are typ­i­cal of Berlin, and where foot­bridges are needed. So be­gan the “World’s Foot­bridges for Berlin” pro­ject. Par­tic­i­pants from all over the world sub­mit­ted many cu­ri­ous, in­tel­li­gent, vi­sion­ary foot­bridge de­signs. The pre­cious col­lec­tion of 73 se­lected bridge de­signs are mapped in the mi­crosite “Bridge Finder”, a dig­i­tal com­pass, to ex­plore the con­text of the pro­ject and the city. The “Bridge Finder” first shows the near­est lo­ca­tion and then all other lo­ca­tions with in­for­ma­tion on walk­ing dis­tances. It in­forms the user of the re­spec­tive bridge de­sign and in­vites the user to go for a stroll.

The vi­sion fo­rum “Build­ing with Car­bon” was held at the TU Berlin in the spring of 2014. Lec­tur­ers, en­gi­neers and ar­chi­tects dis­cussed the use of car­bon fi­bres in con­struc­tion. The ma­te­r­ial – light, strong and durable – is still rarely used in this field, but it of­fers many prospects for the fu­ture. Moni­teurs de­signed the ap­pear­ance for this event. The key vi­sual rep­re­sents the is­sue of car­bon: a ma­te­r­ial seem­ingly in mo­tion, while the two colours in the vi­sual are slightly off­set. The ty­pog­ra­phy ra­di­ates a par­tic­u­lar clar­ity and pres­ence.

The in­ter­na­tional con­fer­ence Foot­bridge, or­gan­ised by the head of the de­part­ment of “De­sign and Con­struc­tion – Solid Con­struc­tion” of the TU Berlin, in­vites bridge builders from all over the world to ex­change their per­spec­tives and ideas and to learn from each other. With “Tell a Story”, the con­fer­ence par­tic­i­pants were in­vited to sub­mit their thoughts on pedes­trian bridges. The nu­mer­ous “sto­ries” were pub­lished in the con­fer­ence reader. Moni­teurs has de­signed a com­pletely new look, which has been im­ple­mented in dig­i­tal and ana­logue in­for­ma­tional ma­te­ri­als such as the Bridge Finder app, web­site, bill­boards, a pro­gram guide and wayfind­ing sys­tem for the sixth con­fer­ence.