The Exhibition Talk features the work of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA from Bangladesh, highlighting his architecture's response to extreme climatic conditions and use of local techniques and materials, offering a poetic and socially-driven approach. Partners:Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA, Bangladesh
FUTURE OF LIVING – URBAN AGRICULTURE – CULTURAL MEMORY
To tap the potential of global learning by building a Sino-German network of city makers who are pioneering for novel models for livable cities.
WBM #2 – MIT SYSTEM IN DER MITTE
The second WBM symposium explores the further construction and social enhancement of neighbourhoods, the emergence of new living models and the demand for new forms of housing and services.
Partners: WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte; IMKEWOELK + Partner, Berlin; InitialDesign, Berlin
weShare berlin
Students collect and compare various ways in which habitable space in the city is being shared.
Partners: The Why Factory, TU Delft, IKEA Stiftung, Hofheim-Wallau
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #4: Alternative Sketch to Site Processes
The digital era enables new structures for managing communication in the building process, like BIM. These frameworks involve manufacturers of building components and facilitate closer communication between architects and the production of finished components. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin; Rieder Group, Maishofen
Urban (in)securities. #2 Defending the City of the Future
Criminal and terrorist attacks, protests, the increase of urban pollution and the rising feeling of insecurity affect our cities and raise widespread concern regarding the consequences for our identity and way of life. How can the city remain a “public” space? How do city planners, political scientists and cultural commentators envision the city of the future?
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Lab Talk Series: überFLUSS
This series of events is dedicated to the topic of river bathing and river spas in the larger context of current urban developments. It engages in discussions with stakeholders from science, politics, and urban society from Germany and abroad. Partners:Flussbad Berlin e.V.
Peter Cook Enjoys Being Silly
34 years after his first show at Aedes Architecture Forum - Peter Cook and his companions Wolf Prix, Zvi Hecker, Odile Decq and Thom Mayne exchanged ideas and experiences about a life devoted to architecture and the importance of being silly.
HANDS ON CINEMA! Konzepte für die räumliche Gestaltung und strategische Ausrichtung von fünf Arthouse-Kinos
What does a cinema need to be like in order to be an important and visible public space for the audience? What role do design, interior architecture and alternative content play? Partners: Creative Europe MEDIA Desks Deutschland, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, TU Braunschweig, Beuth Hochschule Berlin
Die Altstadt von Aleppo: Strategien für den Wiederaufbau
Cities are increasingly becoming sites not only for civil resistance and protest movements but also for wars, presenting a challenge for architecture and urban planning to develop specific solutions for security, provision, migration, participation and for reconstructing cherished urban fabric after the end of the conflict.
Partners:Prof. Mamoun Fansa, Berlin; Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft, Berlin
