Technische Universität Braunschweig, IDAS & University of Pennsylvania | Productive Berlin
Architecture students from TU Braunschweig worked with their peers from the University of Pennsylvania in this one-week intensive immersion in the field. The workshop was accompanied by lectures, discussions and fieldwork and concluded with a joint presentation of the resarch work and design scenarios envisioned by the students. Partners: Technische Universität Braunschweig, IDAS & University of Pennsylvania
Rural-Urban Transition: Strategies in Diversity
A conversation with the curators of the 2017 UABB - Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen: Cities, Grow in Difference (城市共生) exploring diverse visions and strategies of urban growth to face the challenges of excessive urban expansion and the uniformisation of social life.
Partners: UABB – Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, Hong Kong
CONSTRUCTING CULTURE
The West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong is one of the world’s largest and most ambitious cultural projects. The Exhibition Talk explores the development and the urban strategies of the new district.
Chinese University of Hong Kong | The Entrepreneurial City
CUHK students participated on a one-week workshop at ANCB Berlin as part of an International Summer School. They explored the city and worked on the topics of urban prosperity and inclusive economy. Partners: Chinese University of Hong Kong
To BIM or not to BIM
In the face of potential failures, cost escalation, and conflicts, the question arises whether embracing technology, specifically Building Information Modeling (BIM), is crucial for prevention and empowerment in the design process, or if it poses a risk to innovation. Partners:American Institute of Architects (AIA) Continental Europe Chapter
From a Vertical Forest to a Forest City
The Berlin-based architect Almut Grüntuch-Ernst of Grüntuch-Ernst Architekten discusses with Stefano Boeri about his urban visions, architectural and planning practice and the forest in the city.
The New Urban Agenda ‘on the ground’. #2 Different Urbanisations
This second dialogue in the series focusses on the role and limits of import and export of knowledge, technology and urbanisation patterns between different regions of the world, and questions how 'culturally different' the processes of urbanisation are or should be. Partners:Katleen De Flander, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
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
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
Transforming Cities
In parts of the world, new city foundations and large-scale urban expansions are still booming, while in Europe, with its already high degree of urbanisation, more cautious interventions in the urban structure are on the agenda.
Partners:Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, Berlin; jovis Verlag, Berlin
