WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!?
#2 Urban Climate Impacts
The second Lab Talk explores the connection between water, building and climate adaptation in cities facing droughts, floods and extreme rainfall.
Moderated by Martin Rein-Cano, supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), the Embassy of the Netherlands Berlin, the OBEL Award and Transsolar KlimaEngineering
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Date: Thursday, 21 March 2024, 18:30
Place: Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstr. 18–19, 10119 Berlin
Introduction
Urban Climate Impacts examines water-related challenges in cities, such as droughts, floods and heavy rainfall. The discussion covers city-wide and neighbourhood-based measures, as well as potential new ‘water-sensitive’ building methods or typologies that contribute to CO2 reduction. It will also address strategies for enhancing a city’s resilience and preparedness.
Key questions include: What are the prerequisites and strategies for developing water-wise cities, including sponge cities with minimised land sealing? How can we cool our cities? What measures can support renaturation, such as restoring river courses, canals and shared habitats? And what are viable options for water and grey water management in this context?
The series Water: Curse or Blessing!? consists of six Lab Talks dedicated to building future resilience. Aedes seeks to identify and discuss sustainable water-related architectural and urban development projects that also address the (re)establishment of socio-economic coherence through conscious water management.
Programme
Welcome
Miriam Mlecek_Programme Manager, Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Introduction
Martin Rein-Cano_Founder and Director, TOPOTEK 1, Berlin
Presentations
Thomas Auer_Managing Partner, transsolar, Stuttgart
Catherine Mosbach_Founder, Mosbach Paysagistes, Paris
Kristina Knauf_General Manager, LAND Germany, Düsseldorf
Panel discussion with participants and peers, moderated by Martin Rein-Cano
Peers
Frederic Hebbeker_Researcher PolyUrbanWaters Project, ITT, TH Cologne
Simon Gehrmann_FG Entwerfen und Stadtentwicklung, TU Darmstadt
Marco Schmidt_Researcher, BBSR / TU Berlin
José Arturo Gleason Espíndola_Professor, Guadalajara University
Video
Video by Reframe
The Series
WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!?
Aedes’ international, interdisciplinary programme aims to establish new planning processes and structures related to water use and distribution in the built environment. Through a series of six Lab Talks dedicated to building future resilience, Aedes seeks to identify and discuss sustainable water-related architectural and urban development projects that also address the (re)establishment of socio-economic coherence through conscious water management.
Interdisciplinary experts explore the role of water in climate change mitigation — from reducing CO2 emissions and ecological footprints to adaptation and resilience in urban and national contexts, and recognising water as a common good from source to sea. As an element, resource, and infrastructure, water has a profound impact on the natural, built and living environments. In Water: Curse or Blessing!?, architects and planners engage in innovative knowledge exchange with experts from environmental research, science, and politics, deriving insights for their work processes, planning, implementation, and building projects.
Lab Talk Series
Aedes Theme
Urban Climate Impacts
Urban Climate Impacts
Martin Rein-Cano, Kristina Knauf, Catherine Mosbach, Thomas Auer
Martin Rein-Cano, Kristina Knauf, Catherine Mosbach, Thomas Auer
Thomas Auer
Thomas Auer
Martin Rein-Cano
Martin Rein-Cano
Kristina Knauf
Kristina Knauf
Catherine Mosbach
Catherine Mosbach
Photos © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
In collaboration with:
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück
The Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Hague
The OBEL Award, Copenhagen
Transsolar, Stuttgart
PolyUrbanWaters Research Project
GBA Lab, Shenzhen
