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
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
Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge
A Metro Lab on innovative ways to manage water as well as sustainable and visionary projects leading to a rising awareness. An interdisciplinary dialogue about water as a factor in planning processes and the development of interior and product frameworks, resource management of water in the city and the house, and the implications on design. Partners: AXOR Hansgrohe, Schiltach
Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge
The discussion explores water's role in planning, interior design, resource management, and design implications. Partners: Partners: AXOR Hansgrohe
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
Design as Politics: the next phase #9
As part of the series Design and Politics, students from TU Delft investigate urban regions under stress and develop two tools to assist spatial planning at regional scale using Berlin-Brandenburg as a case study. Partners: The Why Factory, TU Delft; Design as Politics, TU Delft; Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and the Environment, The Hague; German Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development, Berlin; DutchDFA Programme; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
MACHEN! #2: Heizen mit Beton, Kühlen mit Lehm: Wie man Materialien in ihrer ganzen Bandbreite nutzen kann
The second project discussion to show that concrete as a building material can also have sustainable attributes. Partners:Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Zürich
MACHEN! #1: Savoir Vivre: Wie man die Stadt so (um-)baut, dass sie verschiedene Lebensstile ermöglicht
The Flussbad by realities:united takes up the urban bathing culture of Berlin from the early 20th century and shows a recycling possibility of historical spatial qualities for the city of the present. Partners:Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Zürich
Lab Talk Series: MACHEN!
Ergänzend zur Ausstellung MACHEN! Die deutschen Gewinner der Holcim Awards 2011/2012 im Aedes Architekturforum fanden drei Diskussionsveranstaltungen im ANCB statt, in denen die Preisträger ihre Projekte vorstellten und über deren aktuellen Entwicklungsstand berichteten. Partners: Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction
REM KOOLHAAS – PETER SLOTERDIJK
Both architecture and philosophy attempt to merge the complexity of the world into an encyclopedic knowledge. Rem Koolhaas and Peter Sloterdijk discuss these overlapping topics moderated by Stephan Trüby. Partner: Dutch Embassy in Berlin
