Humans need animals and insects to survive: from the honeybees that pollinate plants, to the ants that help maintain a healthy soil, to the birds that control pests. Partners: AA Architectural Association Visiting School London and TU Berlin
Animalesque Spring Talks
A Lab Talk to kick off visions about an Animalesque utopia in cities. Partners: AA Architectural Association Visiting School, London, Fab Lab Berlin, NABU Berlin, TU Berlin
Rural Moves
The revitalisation of rural areas has been neglected for a long time not only in China, but also in Europe and worldwide, and has consequently given rise to big socioeconomic and political challenges. Aedes has identified built examples in Songyang (China) that provide fascinating impulses for the discussion regarding the improvement of rural regions also in Europe.
Partners: The People's Government of Songyang County; Songyang Cultural Bureau; Zhejiang Xinhu Foundation
SheltAir. A pioneering pavilion in the ANCB garden
The pavilion by Gregory Quinn, Berlin University of the Arts investigates the use of air-filled cushions to rapidly, safely and cheaply erect elastic gridshells for humanitarian causes. Partners:Gregory Quinn, Berlin University of the Arts
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
WOHA: Garden City Mega City
WOHA’s Garden City Mega City is a plea for urgent action to rethink, re-plan and remediate the world’s mega cities for the age of global warming. Using WOHA’s 'Macro-Architecture Micro-Urbanism' approach as a prototype, the book presents a compelling manifesto for densely settled, yet comprehensively green and ultimately self-sufficient cities of the future.
Partners: WOHA, Singapore
baumschlager eberle 2226 – ein gebautes manifest
Berlin architecture critic Ilka Ruby, Ruby Press, discusses with Dietmar Eberle his visions of architecture, aesthetics, efficiency. Partners:
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
BIO BERLIN – Visions for non-anthropocentric cohabitation of humans, flora and fauna
How can we build cities that place the survival of the planet in the center of their becoming? Envisioning the cities of tomorrow from a „non-anthropocentric“ perspective means to bring down man from the pedestal of life and putting him at the same level with other vegetative and animal species that share the same urban realm. Partners: TU Braunschweig and Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Milano | Enabling the Edge: Urban Farms in Milan and Berlin
This design studio focused on the wider systems that individual farms and gardening enterprises connect into. Tying in with the Milano Expo, a second emphasis was the farm typology, exploring future uses for abandoned examples located within urban fabric of Milan. Partners: Politecnico di Milano
