Tropical Berlin - Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde
Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde ( United States, Venezuela )
Tropical Berlin is a multi-part sound and film project exploring memory, migration, and healing through two iconic Berlin sites: the Tropical Greenhouse at the Berlin Botanic Garden and Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in the Westend.
The sound installation uses field recordings, voice, and ambient textures to create an immersive sonic environment—drawing on the story of the Coco de Mer palm, a rare species destroyed during WWII and ceremonially returned to the garden decades later. The palm becomes a symbol of displacement, survival, and return. Daniel draws inspiration from ayahuasca journeys, sound baths, and queer ritual practices to create a space of listening, reflection, and embodied memory.
In parallel, a film follows a protagonist navigating Corbusier’s modernist housing block—treating it as a vessel for memory, longing, and psychic transformation. Both works reimagine architecture—botanical and built—as spaces for processing intergenerational trauma and imagining new queer futures.
