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Emerging from the design studio Lupo Burtscher and the cultural association Lungomare, the newly founded cooperative brings together these two practices and their related fields of work and experience.

So Lungomare will continue to embody the transdisciplinary approach that we have been pursuing for almost twenty years now.

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Wed., 5 – Thu., 6 August 2026

Paul Steinbrück from POOL IS COOL for Flussbaden Bozen-Bolzano

SIT-PLU Public Program

Picture by Pool is Cool

Picture by Pool is Cool

Picture by Pool is Cool

Lungomare launches Flussbaden, a collective open to citizens to discuss Bolzano’s rivers as shared spaces — and even swimmable ones.

For those who would like to be part of it, the First Meeting will be held on the 5th and the 6th of August. The occasion is the invitation extended to architect and co-founder of POOL IS COOL, Paul Steinbrück, to share the experience and knowledge of the Bruxelles-based organisation that, since 2016, has been working to bring outdoor swimming back into urban life.

The encounter aims to reflect on what kind of processes can enable the transformation of the river into a public and conscious space — a place to enjoy, inhabit and develop a relationship with — while balancing freedom and risk, and fostering a dialogue between individual and collective responsibilities, as well as between private and public dimensions.

If you are interested in being part of Flussbaden or you want to know more about it: info@lungomare.org

Paul Steinbrück

Paul Steinbrück is a German architect based in Brussels and co-initiator of Pool is Cool, an NGO advocating for the revival of outdoor swimming in Brussels. His work explores the role of the architect as activist, combining hands-on design and building, research, and public debate, with a particular focus on societal questions around sustainability and ecology, inclusiveness and power.

Since 2024 he has been also working as a teaching assistant at architecture faculty of KU Leuven, in 2026 he joined German engineering firm Polyplan as advisor for the development of outdoor swimming projects, with a focus on urban natural pools.
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In his teaching and research activities he explores how these issues can inform design in relation with and of public space, encouraging critical reflection on the social impact of architecture and the ways spatial interventions shape urban life and community relations. Paul studied in Germany and Finland and worked with Sauerbruch Hutton in Berlin and 51N4E in Brussels, alongside smaller independent projects, before turning his focus to self-initiated activist work. ⁠

Outdoor swimming holds a particular appeal for him in its capacity to gather people across social divides — sharing water, space, and each other’s company in ways that quietly challenge the segregations structuring urban life.