This fourth symposium within the ANCB & Schindler collaborative research project on urban periphery explores broad-ranging urban research and practice responses to this peri-urban condition.
Partners: The Schindler Transit Management Group, Ebikon
SoFa Design Institute, Manila | Manila meets Berlin
Students of the SoFa Design Institute in Manila immerse themselves in Berlin to get influenced by its peculiar milieu. In this Design Studio, they try a new, empathetic approach to architecture that better serves diverse communities. Partners: SoFa Design Institute, Manila
MOBILISING THE PERIPHERY #3 – Focus Africa
The third symposium in the collaborative ANCB – Schindler Transit Management Group focusses on contemporary urban peripheries worldwide.
Partners: The Schindler Transit Management Group, Ebikon
MOBILISING THE PERIPHERY #2 – Focus China: The New Habitat
The second symposium in the collaborative ANCB - Schindler Transit Management Group focusses on contemporary urban peripheries worldwide looking at new strategies for urbanisation.
Partners: The Schindler Transit Management Group, Ebikon
Identity in a Floating World
For many years Hong Kong has acted as a model for emerging cities in Asia. What makes Hong Kong a model, and what roles are architects playing in the the process of adaption and reinvention?
Lab Talk Series: The New Urban Agenda ‘on the ground’.
A Series conceptualised by Katleen De Flander, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam Partners:Katleen De Flander, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
Medellín: Topography of Knowledge
Accompanying the Aedes exhibition, the talk introduces the city’s recent history, highlighting how progressive urban planning and architecture are transforming Colombia's second largest city from a war- and crime-ridden place to a prospered and liveable metropolis.
Partners:Alcaldía de Medellín; Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Metropolitana
The New Urban Agenda ‘on the ground’. #1 Overriding the Urban/Non-Urban Divide
This Lab Talk addresses new approaches that break with the idea of the bounded city in which the urban and the non-urban are opposed, and spaces are classified within an alleged urban-rural continuum. Partners:Katleen De Flander, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
Institute of Architecture Technology, TU Graz | BUSting Berlin – hybrid infrastructures
Berlin is a dynamic, vital metropolis that counts as one of the favourite destinations in Europe. The studio adresses the topic of mobility arising from that precondition and the question of how Berlin is actually being accessed. Within this frame, the students focus especially on the current phenomenon of increasing bus travel. Partners: Institute of Architecture Technology, TU Graz
Seoul: Towards a Meta-City
Seoul aims to achieve a harmonious balance between restoration and change by focusing on three key objectives: reviving history, restoring nature, and renewing people's lives, as demonstrated through projects showcased in the Aedes exhibition and discussed in the talk.
Partners:City of Seoul
