Oslo is European Green Capital of the Year 2019 and aims to put its inhabitants at centre stage: Technology-friendly population, car-free city centre, inter-disciplinary collaborations, children’s participation, green leadership, few hierarchies and digital services.
Partners:Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin
Precision, Prototyping & Prefabrication
The lecture and discussion gives an insight into the methodology and creative cogitations of Archi-Tectonics, combining the use of latest digital technologies with philosophical approaches. Partners:Archi-Tectonics / Winka Dubbeldam & Justin Korhammer, New York
Shenzhen – Shape of the Future
The Exhibition Talk brings together experts who discuss theoretical approaches and presented built examples from Europe and China, with a focus on Shenzhen—a megacity where Industry 4.0 is affecting the urban living environment. Partners:SZFIEC; City Think Tank; DEEP DIVE; School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong
University of Kentucky – Architectonic Characters in the City: Berlin
Students of the University of Kentucky explore the intersection of digital design and urban innovation and create interactive, animal-inspired installations in Berlin's Tiergarten and groundbreaking housing prototypes for Schumacher Quartier. Partners: University of Kentucky
Lab Talk Series: Craftsmanship in the Digital Age
The five-part Lab Talk Series on architecture, values and digital fabrication explores and co-articulates a craftsmanship approach to incorporating digital fabrication into architecture with manufacturers, proponents of newer digital production tools, architects, and building industry representatives. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Baunetz; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin; Rieder Group, Maishofen
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #5: Craft in Code
A lecture by Richard Sennett, concluding the ANCB series Craftsmanship in the Digital Age. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Baunetz; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin
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
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #3: Resetting Values for Architecture and the Building Industry
The third discussion explores societal issues impacting architecture practice, with a focus on factors like cost efficiency and energy performance. Digital fabrication presents an opportunity for closer collaboration between manufacturers and architects, allowing for the reintroduction of critical craftsmanship values in building practice. . Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin
SheltAir. A pioneering pavilion in the ANCB garden
The pavilion by Gregory Quinn, Berlin University of the Arts investigates the use of air-filled cushions to rapidly, safely and cheaply erect elastic gridshells for humanitarian causes. Partners:Gregory Quinn, Berlin University of the Arts
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
