Accompanying the Aedes exhibition, the symposium focuses on the question of how architects and urban planners in the Asian-Pacific region are coping with water-related issues and offers insights into specific scenarios found in the urban areas, while also incorporating a larger perspective of the region as a whole, which faces a heterogeneous mix of water-related threats and issues ranging from flooding to shortages, including pollution and other challenges.
Partners: Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin (DKLB)
Design and Politics. #3 Climate Changing our Cities
Climate change has a maximum impact on our cities. Urgently there is a new 'cool city' at stake in climate-proofing the city against heat waves, water shortages and torrential rains; that is at once economically viable, socially resilient and climatically sustainable, and critically, that is only possible through the mobilisation of new alliances between design and governance.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
Die Dynamik des Wandels
A conversation between Jacob von Uexküll, founder of the 'Right Livelihood Award' and Monika Griefahn, the former environmental minister for Lower Saxony. Partners: Right Livelihood Award
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
Weniger ist Zukunft. Sachsen-Anhalt: Ein Labor für die Stadt von morgen
A Lab Talk to discuss projects and processes of the IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010 and to provide impulses for innovative perspectives on phenomena such as shrinkage and climate protection.
Partners: IBA Stadtumbau 2010 des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Tsunami Trace File
A public screening of the documentary 'A Tsunami Trace File' by Mathias Klotz and Carlos Perez. Partner: Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile
Universidad Europea de Madrid – Design Studio 2009
Berlin's urban setting is seen as an open field where relationships amongst communities can be understood as a continuous process. The transformation from solid to liquid modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting. Adopting four distinct media, Students and professors from UEM developed proposals for urban reconfiguration along the River Spree in the socio-economically charged context of Berlin's Kreuzberg. Partner: Universidad Europea de Madrid
