ifau (Institut für angewandte Urbanistik, 1998, Berlin/Germany) is a working group of architects focusing on interrelated, interdisciplinary projects in the field of architecture and urban design. Their flexible methodology extends to research projects, installations and generally to events in the urban context whereby all of their projects aim to involve and inscribe contextual processes, urban difference and diversity, creating space for negotiation in the design. ifau are: Christoph Heinemann, Susanne Heiß, Christoph Schmidt.more

Since 2004, ifau started collaborations with Berlin-based architect Jesko Fezer who is a co-editor of the magazine An Architektur, and partner in the Berlin bookstore Pro qm. He is professor for Experimental Design at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. ifau + Jesko Fezer have come to Istanbul to design the Adhocracy exhibition.