ANCB’s ten-year anniversary symposium examines what positive influence can the design of spaces and surroundings have on the recovery process of the people and societies affected and, in general, what can space-making contribute to a better and healthier living environment around the world?
Partners: Jiyan Foundation; ZRS Architekten Ingenieure, Berlin; TU Berlin; Bauhaus-Universität BU Weimar
Lab Talk Series: Craftsmanship in the Digital Age
The five-part Lab Talk Series on architecture, values and digital fabrication explores and co-articulates a craftsmanship approach to incorporating digital fabrication into architecture with manufacturers, proponents of newer digital production tools, architects, and building industry representatives. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Baunetz; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin; Rieder Group, Maishofen
Framing City
Students continue to explore the Framing City methodology evolved in previous studios here. Sequences of methods will transfer the observations and impressions of the students about Berlin from mapping through to interventions. The Kulturforum is the focus of this year’s studio. Partners: University of Kentucky, Lexington
PARTIZIPATION MACHT ARCHITEKTUR
Without citizen's participation, hardly any major building project can be implemented. People do not just want to be informed, they want to actively participate and users' knowledge about spaces is indeed a valuable tool for architects in the design process. The book presents what successful participation can look like.
Partners:Baupiloten, Berlin; jovis Verlag, Berlin
A transatlantic dialogue with Roberta Washington. How can urban planning and architecture take into account the needs of migrants, people of color or those seeking refuge? And how do architects and urban planners from these communities become more visible?
Partners:TU Braunschweig; August Bebel Institut, Berlin; Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin; Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit, Integration und Frauen, Berlin; Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung, Berlin; Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin; Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
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
Cinema of the Future 2013. Cinematic Acupuncture.
A Lab Talk about the role of the cinema as a social stimulator, exploring its outreach to diverse inhabitants in a rapidly changing social landscape. Partners:Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam
Cinema of the Future 2013. Cinematic Acupuncture.
How can the cinema, as a local meeting spot, act as a catalyst for cohesive social change? The case study is the Rollberg Cinema in Berlin-Neukölln. Partners: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Dessau School of Architecture
Mauerpark Reloaded
The challenge is to pursue an interrogation of possible futures regarding Mauerpark, Berlin, integrating beyond the assumed dialectic of public and private spaces.
Partners: Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City; Universidad de Las Americas, Mexico City
Re-inventing Construction
The book "Re-inventing Construction," edited by Ilka and Andreas Ruby, explores alternative approaches to construction and the potential of new inventions and forgotten techniques in the field. It presents revised contributions from the 3rd International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction and features an Illustrated Index by Something Fantastic. Partners:Ruby Press, Berlin
