In July 2012, PARKS & PASSAGES sent a group of DC-based research fellows–interactive artist Edgar Endress, artist James Huckenpahler, architect Pam Jordan, and scholar Paul Farber–to Berlin to source ideas for re-purposing and re-activating this underground space. Their creative investigations draw from Berlin’s exceptional approach to sustainably re-purposing architecture and infrastructure. This project includes interdisciplinary works from the four research residents, which present possibilities for the tunnels’ activation, while exploring the subliminal architectures, mythical stories, urban destinies, and social futures of these lost spaces and their connected capitals. The PARKS & PASSAGES exhibit at the Goethe-Institut (September-November 2012) explores the possibilities for redeveloping Dupont Underground, a 75,000…

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