WOHA’s Garden City Mega City is a plea for urgent action to rethink, re-plan and remediate the world’s mega cities for the age of global warming. Using WOHA’s 'Macro-Architecture Micro-Urbanism' approach as a prototype, the book presents a compelling manifesto for densely settled, yet comprehensively green and ultimately self-sufficient cities of the future.
Partners: WOHA, Singapore
BIO BERLIN – Visions for non-anthropocentric cohabitation of humans, flora and fauna
How can we build cities that place the survival of the planet in the center of their becoming? Envisioning the cities of tomorrow from a „non-anthropocentric“ perspective means to bring down man from the pedestal of life and putting him at the same level with other vegetative and animal species that share the same urban realm. Partners: TU Braunschweig and Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Milano | Enabling the Edge: Urban Farms in Milan and Berlin
This design studio focused on the wider systems that individual farms and gardening enterprises connect into. Tying in with the Milano Expo, a second emphasis was the farm typology, exploring future uses for abandoned examples located within urban fabric of Milan. Partners: Politecnico di Milano
Rebuild by Design
A symposium on the occasion of the opening of the ANCB exhibition After Hurricane Sandy - REBUILD BY DESIGN - Resilient Planning Through Collaborative Design. Partners: Henk Ovink, Rebuild by Design, New York; United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Washington DC; Schindler, Ebikon; Dutch Embassy in Berlin; Zumtobel, Dornbirn
Lab Talk Series: Retooling the trades
The ANCB series ReTooling the Trades is about equipping the capable urban practitioner with an upgraded set of working methods, approaches, strategies, processes and systems for effective and responsible professional practice.
Partners: Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
ReTooling the Trades. #2 City – Climate – Architecture.
The second part focusses on a rising awareness of climatological issues in the design process with the potential for a more site-specific and contextually relevant architecture in the future. Partners:Dutch Embassy in Berlin; TU Berlin
Yves Bréchet
Yves Bréchet focuses on the field of modelling in physical and mechanical metallurgy. He is interested in phase changes, plasticity, fragility and material sciences in biological systems, as well as materials in nuclear technology and transport systems. Partners:Cluster of Excellence "Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Universidad Europea de Madrid | BERLIN AGRICULTURAL URBAN SITES_Tempelhofer Feld
Students from the Universidad Europea de Madrid are examining urban infrastructures and new inner peripheries for their potential in city naturalization and cyclical yield. Their work includes cycling through Berlin agricultural sites and developing urban devices to inform design strategies. Partners: Universidad Europea de Madrid
Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge
A Metro Lab on innovative ways to manage water as well as sustainable and visionary projects leading to a rising awareness. An interdisciplinary dialogue about water as a factor in planning processes and the development of interior and product frameworks, resource management of water in the city and the house, and the implications on design. Partners: AXOR Hansgrohe, Schiltach
Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge
The discussion explores water's role in planning, interior design, resource management, and design implications. Partners: Partners: AXOR Hansgrohe
