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
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
In Transit. #8 Marie von Manteuffel
Marie von Manteuffel, talks about Médecins Sans Frontières Germany's work with refugees on the EU borders, in particular in the camps on the Greek islands, and the challenge to generate the political will to improve the plight of the refugees. Partners:ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg; Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin; Norwegian Embassy, Berlin; Danish Embassy, Berlin
Recovery Spaces
ANCB’s ten-year anniversary symposium examines what positive influence can the design of spaces and surroundings have on the recovery process of the people and societies affected and, in general, what can space-making contribute to a better and healthier living environment around the world?
Partners: Jiyan Foundation; ZRS Architekten Ingenieure, Berlin; TU Berlin; Bauhaus-Universität BU Weimar
Hoffnung bauen!
The exhibition shows a project of solidarity with the Yazidi people, who are persecuted and murdered by the so-called 'Islamic State'. At its centre are designs for an orphanage in northern Iraq. The opening discussion focuses on meeting the needs of the refugees and what architecture can contribute.
Partners: Netzwerk Mala Heviya / Haus der Hoffnung (Jugend humanitärer Hilfe e.V.; TU Braunschweig; UdK Berlin)
Urban (in)securities. #1 The City as Target
Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and epidemics impact the physical appearance of our urban environment and evoke fears about the visible and invisible insecurities targeting our cities. Urban spaces are identified as an interface for vulnerability and contagion with a growing demand for the state to defend and police public places.
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
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
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
SHIGERU BAN. Works and Humanitarian Activities
The 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate, Shigeru Ban, is renowned for his inventive and resourceful design approach, which he applies not only to his private commissions but also to his extensive humanitarian efforts.
Partners:The Schindler Transit Management Group, Ebikon
Make_Shift City. Die Neuverhandlung des Urbanen
Can the urban commons, places and spaces of the common, be renegotiated by architects and planners?
Partners: jovis Verlag, Berlin
