The City of Helsinki is engaged in a number of Smart City projects that explore the use of open data and digital technologies in urban development. The Lab Talk offers perspectives on the scope and implications of the growing trend towards Smart Cities for architecture and urban design.
Partners:Embassy of Finland, Berlin; City of Helsinki; DOM Publishers, Berlin; Forum Virium, Helsinki
Design and Politics. #7 Re-city, the ‘Total Makeover’
Re-city is a bottom-up approach to the restructuring, renovation and reinvention of our cities, stemming not from initiatives, but out of city-ness, through schemes of any scale, any alliance, any 'rules and regulations' rather than through big projects.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
Design and Politics. #4 Learning to Provoke
Standard urban planning approaches are no longer effective. A more politically engaged, pro-active and provocative alternative is necessary, grounded by the primary objective of giving meaning to the challenges and their development in our cities. It is in urban architecture, in planning and urban design, that this 'politicalness' of design emerges.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
Design and Politics. #3 Climate Changing our Cities
Climate change has a maximum impact on our cities. Urgently there is a new 'cool city' at stake in climate-proofing the city against heat waves, water shortages and torrential rains; that is at once economically viable, socially resilient and climatically sustainable, and critically, that is only possible through the mobilisation of new alliances between design and governance.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
Liveable Cities – Architecture Agendas in Singapore and Germany
Six architects from Singapore and Germany discuss what makes a great city to live, work and play in based around examples from Singapore and Berlin.
DENK MAL BERLIN – Wer baut die Stadt?
Preview of the documentary film: 'DENK MAL BERLIN' with a subsequent conversation between Georgia Tornow and Regula Lüscher. Partner: Offroad Reports
LOS ANGELES VS. BERLIN – How should cities deal with their architectural past?
A lab talk comparing Los Angeles to Berlin in terms of geography, history and urbanism. Partners:The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, Los Angeles; Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Berlin
