ArchiAid: The Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Program

ArchiAid: The Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Program

On the occasion of the Aedes exhibition opening, the dialogue focusses on the challenge of the architecture profession to connect and moderate between technical and governmental conditions as well as cultural behaviour related to environmental needs.
Partner: Japan Federation of Construction Contractors, Tohoku Branch Office; UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, Los Angeles; Japan Foundation, Cologne; Tchoban Foundation. Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin; Repro Ringel, Berlin

Regional City – Local Campus in the Metropolitan Fringe

Regional City – Local Campus in the Metropolitan Fringe

ANCB and its partners explore the need for new working approaches and tools to understand and support the future of the Region as City. While urban areas receive significant attention, the periphery is often overlooked despite being home to a large population.
Partners: msa Münster School of Architecture; Leibniz Universität Hannover; HafenCity Universität Hamburg; TU Berlin; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Erkner

Regional City – Vom Wohnort zum Lebensort

Regional City – Vom Wohnort zum Lebensort

Brandenburg is the periphery of Berlin. Berlin is the city in the centre of Brandenburg. Innovative visions of the future and ideas are to develop the region from a mere place of residence to a place of life - with perspectives for regional, site-specific circulation systems through which independence could be achieved.
Partners: msa Münster School of Architecture; Leibniz Universität Hannover; HafenCity Universität Hamburg; TU Berlin; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Erkner

SMART CITY: THE NEXT GENERATION

SMART CITY: THE NEXT GENERATION

Four workshops, an exhibition and a conference to present intelligent solutions for environmental, infrastructural, societal, and sustainability challenges in urban contexts. Featuring established and emerging actors from Southeast Asia, aiming to make cities more efficient and livable by rethinking existing infrastructures of dealing with water, energy, and mobility.
Partners:Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, Goethe Institut

msa | serviced apartment_BERLIN

msa | serviced apartment_BERLIN

Die Münster School of Architecture untersucht, wie Le Corbusiers „Wohnen im Ozeanliner“ auf Berlin übertragen werden kann, um Wohn- und Hotelbauten mit städtischen Infrastrukturen zu verbinden. 
Partners: Münster School of Architecture

From Research to Design – Mobility

From Research to Design – Mobility

The Lab Talk, organized by ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, focuses on the theme of mobility within the context of the metropolis as a space of encounters and collisions. The interdisciplinary discussion presents perspectives from the natural sciences, architecture, and art, aiming to inspire new thinking and design approaches to mobility.
Partners: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Schering Stiftung, Berlin; cuaa-dahz Deutsch-Argentinisches Hochschulzentrum, Bonn

MACHEN! #1: Savoir Vivre: Wie man die Stadt so (um-)baut, dass sie verschiedene Lebensstile ermöglicht

MACHEN! #1: Savoir Vivre: Wie man die Stadt so (um-)baut, dass sie verschiedene Lebensstile ermöglicht

The Flussbad by realities:united takes up the urban bathing culture of Berlin from the early 20th century and shows a recycling possibility of historical spatial qualities for the city of the present.
Partners:Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Zürich

Design and Politics. #8 Making Design and Politics

Design and Politics. #8 Making Design and Politics

A discussion about the critical role of design education in the transforming design of cities.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Hague; International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR)

Design and Politics.  #7 Re-city, the ‘Total Makeover’

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. #6 Moving Cities

Design and Politics. #6 Moving Cities

How do we examine and appreciate the mutually influential relationships between transport modes and nodes, movement patterns, population shifts, and urban fabric and composition? What are the key planning tasks around this next stage of network mobility?
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin