Reinier de Graaf, OMA: Four Walls and a Roof. The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession.
Architecture critic Niklas Maak and OMA Partner Reinier de Graaf discuss the role of the architect and the challenges of the profession in today’s society.
Partners:Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
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
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 #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
MUSEUM AS ACTIVATOR
There is a tendency in Germany and Australia for museums to transform the cultural context, and both countries face a need for strategies to address ownership as well as social and cultural integration in the city and the peripheries. The two-day symposium enabled a broad dialogue to include cultural experts, city planners, architects, artists and curators. Partners:Australian Government as part of the cultural initiative Australia now Germany 2017, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Museums: art, culture, spectacle, access
Students focus on museum accessibility and the role of exhibition design, participation, digital technology. Partners: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
The Perfect City Block: How Do We Want To Live Together (In The Future)?
The participants are asked to build their perfect city block and elaborate on the relationship between social, economic or cultural backgrounds, environment and pollution, political stability, social cohesion, and the role of urban design through fictional scenarios and abstract models.
Partners: Bucerius Summer School, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
HANDS ON CINEMA 2.0!
There is a considerable need among arthouse cinema operators for fresh ideas. For the second time, ANCB and the Creative Europe MEDIA Desks Germany initiated a call aimed at arthouse cinemas, for which students developed concepts for spatial design and strategic orientation. Partners: Münster School of Architecture, Münster School of Design, Creative Europe MEDIA Desks Deutschland and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
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.
Museums and Cultural Spaces
ANCB conceptualised this international symposium accompanying the exhibition V.D.H.N. URBAN PHENOMENON at the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, to critically reflect on the role of museums today. Partners:Ministry of Culture of the Government of Moscow
