Boris Sieverts
Boris Sieverts is a travel guide. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and went on to work as a shepherd and in several architectural offices in Cologne and Bonn. Since 1997 he has been guiding locals and tourists through the grey areas of our conurbations with his Büro für Städtereisen. In doing so, he uses sophisticated spatial sequences to create scenic connections for environments that are otherwise considered extremely disparate. In addition to the touristic character of the trips, the office uses his findings to develop visions and further interpretations of the explored environments and feeds these into spatial planning and the cultural sector.
Boris Sieverts also deals with numerous urban development topics and is present as an artist in public spaces. He is particularly interested in activating and involving city dwellers in dealing with the issues that affect them. He holds teaching assignments in Nantes, Leipzig, Kassel, Portland, Maastricht, Hamburg, Cologne, among others and has shown his work in individual as well as collective exhibitions in Germany, France, Sweden and the USA. Boris Sieverts lives in Cologne and is a founding member of the Metropolitan Trails Academy, an association of European urban walkers, which has set itself the task of promoting and establishing systematic walking in the city as a cross-sectional discipline for subjects as diverse as urban and landscape planning, sociology, participatory culture and territorial administration.
Lecture 25.10.2022: