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
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #1: Architecture, Technology and Materiality
The opening discussion examines the relationship between design, materials, and digital technology in architecture. Manufacturers of ceramic and concrete components contribute to the exploration of material qualities and the potentials of digital fabrication. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin
WBM #1 – MIT SYSTEM NACH OBEN
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
To BIM or not to BIM
In the face of potential failures, cost escalation, and conflicts, the question arises whether embracing technology, specifically Building Information Modeling (BIM), is crucial for prevention and empowerment in the design process, or if it poses a risk to innovation. Partners:American Institute of Architects (AIA) Continental Europe Chapter
Taksim, Tahrir, Occupy & Co. #2 Visuality and Urban Space
The Lab Talk concentrates on the visualisation of urban spaces during civil resistance incidents and protests. The digital sharing of these visuals on social media ‘virtualises’ and instantly ‘internationalises’ these spaces, facilitating the immediate production and transportation of news and laying the ground for interaction among protesters and between protesters and non-protesters.
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
