The students from Hochschule Darmstadt were asked to rethink the Aedes campus, its heritage, its current and future use. The studio focused on the spatial organisation related to the different functions and the connection between the interior and the outdoor spaces, providing alternative solutions that could accommodate Aedes’ exhibition, workshop and event spaces as well as the café in new and exciting ways. Partners: Hochschule Darmstadt
Pratt Berlin | RECONSIDERING TXL
An interdisciplinary group of students from Pratt Institute New York envisions alternative futures for the decommissioned (airport) Flughafen Tegel. The studies focus on the main terminal building’s unique capacity to flexibly adapt to transitory uses, allowing it to serve acute needs through initiatives of social entrepreneurship and civic engagement. Partners: Pratt Institute
University of Kentucky – Architectonic Characters in the City: Berlin
The University of Kentucky design studio at Aedes Berlin explores urban innovation through two exciting projects: interactive, gestural installations for Berlin Zoo and pioneering housing prototypes for Schumacher Quartier. The students integrate human scale, materiality, and urban context to reshape Berlin’s cityscape. Partners: University of Kentucky
Oslo Architecture Triennale
A Lab Talk to introduce the Triennale’s Mission Neighbourhood and approaches to create more diverse, sustainable and thriving neighborhoods.
Partners:Oslo Architecture Triennale; Norwegian Embassy Berlin
Innen.Stadt.Leben. #4 Soziale Nachhaltigkeit in den Städten
Revitalizing city centers and preventing their decline requires diverse approaches, including transforming and repurposing buildings, creating public spaces, and fostering sustainable synergies between housing, work, infrastructure, commerce, culture, and leisure. Partners:caspar., Cologne, Hamburg
Innen.Stadt.Leben. #3 Partizipation, Kreativität und Improvisation
How can cultural interventions and participatory processes revitalize city spaces and foster citizen engagement and identification through creativity and spontaneity, in contrast to rigid planning doctrines? Partners:caspar., Cologne, Hamburg
Innen.Stadt.Leben. #2 Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit der Städte
Architecture's responsibility in the climate crisis entails exploring sustainable techniques, materials, and methods, while addressing the challenge of balancing density, public spaces, and green areas, including the potential for environmentally friendly high-rise buildings. Partners:caspar., Cologne, Hamburg
Climate Neutral Design
A roundtable discussion on how to drive and design for climate neutrality taking place on the occasion of the exhibition A Heart of Wood – Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå by White Arkitekter at Aedes Architecture Forum. Partners:White Arkitekter
Innen.Stadt.Leben. #1 (Re-)Vitalisierung von Innenstädten
Digitalisation is reshaping retail as we increasingly shop and work from home, and the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the lack of residential presence in city centres, prompting a reflection on the impact of these trends on inner cities, architecture, and urban planning. Partners:caspar., Cologne, Hamburg
Lab Talk Series: Wissensräume unserer Gesellschaft
The five-part series explores the diverse and interacting relationships between knowledge and space. It investigates the contribution of institutions of spatially bound knowledge transfer such as schools, universities, museums, libraries, archives but also informal urban places of learning to the public accessibility of knowledge. Partners:Bundesstiftung Baukultur, Potsdam
