Institute of Architecture Technology, TU Graz | BUSting Berlin – hybrid infrastructures

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

ReTooling the Trades. #3: Extending Smartness – The Next Generation

ReTooling the Trades. #3: Extending Smartness – The Next Generation

The discussion combines smart city topics with the exploration of new components, such as participatory and self-made-city processes, to understand their role in urban planning systems.
Partners: Netherlands Embassy in Berlin

ReTooling the Trades. #1 Region as City

ReTooling the Trades. #1 Region as City

The series’ kick-off Lab Talk explores spatial interdependencies beyond the city and presents the interim results of the Region as City project.
Partners: Leibniz Universität Hannover; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin

Architectural Display

Architectural Display

Inwiefern müssen sich Museen und Architekten neue Medien und Ausstellungsformen aneignen, um wachsenden Erwartungen und einem veränderten Besucherverhalten gerecht zu werden?
Partner: AMM

ZU HAUSE IN DER STADT. #3 Experiment Umnutzung – Wohnraum neu erfinden

ZU HAUSE IN DER STADT. #3 Experiment Umnutzung – Wohnraum neu erfinden

Cities face a housing shortage, prompting the need for new construction while also considering the potential of converting vacant office complexes and industrial buildings into residential spaces.
Partners: Wüstenrot Stiftung, Ludwigsburg

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

Bogotá – Caracas – São Paulo

Bogotá – Caracas – São Paulo

The Exhibition Talk focuses on bottom-up strategies for urban design addressing the rapid growth of cities in Latin and South America.
Partners:Winka Dubbeldam, New York; Rodrigo Nino, Bogotá; Hubert Klumpner, Zurich; Alfredo Brillembourg, Zurich

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

Edgelands and Urban Agriculture

Edgelands and Urban Agriculture

Woltersdorf is struggling to become a place to live rather than just being a habitat for people working in the metropolis or an attractive location for weekend tourists. A challenging situation to experiment with innovative and sustainable concepts for livable metropolitan settlements.
Partners: Politecnico di Milano