WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING – #2 Urban Climate Impacts
Urban Climate Impacts is the second part of a series of six Lab Talks on building future resilience. Aedes aims to identify and discuss sustainable, water-related architectural and urban development projects that also take into account the (re)establishment of social and economic balance with greater socio-economic coherence through conscious water management. Partners: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück; Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Watermanagement, The Hague; OBEL Award, Copenhagen; Transsolar, Stuttgart;
PolyUrbanWaters Research Project
Beyond the Garden
Contributors to the latest issue of the magazine Materia Arquitectura will reflect on biodiverse cities. Partners: Materia Arquitectura Magazine
WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!? – #1 We Want Water!
This Lab Talk looks at the whole water cycle and building future resilience. It aims to identify and explore solution-driven, sustainable, water-related architectural and urban development projects. Partners:Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, PolyUrbanWaters Research Project
Pratt Institute | Flughafen Berlin-Tegel
Pratt Berlin is an international summer intensive program that focuses on issues of urbanity, social entrepreneurship, and civic engagement.
Partners: Pratt Institute, Kunsthochschule Weißensee
Gutech | Climate Adapted Design Strategies for a Mixed-Use Building in Berlin
The German University of Technology Oman leads a workshop at ANCB about sustainable mixed-use developments.
Partners: German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)
Future Thinking: How to Make Things Better
How can architecture act as a tool for betterment? This Lab Talk showcases Australian and German examples to actively address climate challenges and extract general valid paramenters and local mitigation factors.
Partners:Deborah Ascher Barnstone, University of Technology Sydney; Australian Embassy Berlin
Climate Change: What can Architecture Do?
Although climate change is the greatest challenge facing humankind today, we do not seem to be able to come to any international consensus on how to begin to mitigate the causes. This studio asks, what can architecture do? Partners: University of Technology Sydney
No Apocalypse Now!
Henk Ovink addresses the current and future climate and sustainability challenges and focusses on using water's unifying and collaborative capacity as a lever to design, progress, scale and speed up inclusive and innovative climate programmes, in partnership with all and by design. Partners:Bucerius Summer School, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Living Prototypes #1
The mid-term workshop in Barcelona of a European research project on digitally fabricated building components made with bio-based materials. Partners:Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), Bonn; IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona; WASP, Massa Lombarda; ITKE, University of Stuttgart; FibR, Kernen; CITA, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen; COBOD, Copenhagen
Climate Neutral Design
A roundtable discussion on how to drive and design for climate neutrality taking place on the occasion of the exhibition A Heart of Wood – Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå by White Arkitekter at Aedes Architecture Forum. Partners:White Arkitekter