After two years of forced absence, Iowa State University continued their summer presence at ANCB with climate and environmentally conscious innovative housing projects along the Görlitzer Rail Line Park, an abandoned rail line as stimulating edge condition with exposed demising walls (Brandwände). Partners: Iowa State University
Lab Talk Series: Towards a healthy city
This interdisciplinary lab talk series looks at the built environment as a whole as factor for health production and optimisation. Partners:UNStudio, Amsterdam
Towards a Healthy City. #2 The Building Scale
This second part in a series of interdisciplinary lab talks looks into concepts of health and wellbeing at the building scale. Partners:UNStudio, Amsterdam
Towards a Healthy City. #1 The Urban Approach
The kick-off event #1 The Urban Approach examines the built environment as a holistic factor for health production and optimisation. Partners:UNStudio, Amsterdam
Kashef Chowdhury
The Exhibition Talk features the work of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA from Bangladesh, highlighting his architecture's response to extreme climatic conditions and use of local techniques and materials, offering a poetic and socially-driven approach. Partners:Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA, Bangladesh
Science. Fiction. International Politics: Visible and Invisible Borders
The Bucerius Summer School workshop examines questions regarding visible and invisible borders on spatial, social, cultural, technical and economical levels through the fictional narratives and places of science fiction films. Partners: Bucerius Summer School, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Urban (in)securities. #2 Defending the City of the Future
Criminal and terrorist attacks, protests, the increase of urban pollution and the rising feeling of insecurity affect our cities and raise widespread concern regarding the consequences for our identity and way of life. How can the city remain a “public” space? How do city planners, political scientists and cultural commentators envision the city of the future?
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Urban (in)securities: Science. Fiction. International Politics
This one-day programme within the frame of the Bucerius Summer School 2016, focuses on the interplay between city planning, securitisation and international politics. Partners:Bucerius Summer School, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Urban (in)securities. #1 The City as Target
Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and epidemics impact the physical appearance of our urban environment and evoke fears about the visible and invisible insecurities targeting our cities. Urban spaces are identified as an interface for vulnerability and contagion with a growing demand for the state to defend and police public places.
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Medellín: Topography of Knowledge
Accompanying the Aedes exhibition, the talk introduces the city’s recent history, highlighting how progressive urban planning and architecture are transforming Colombia's second largest city from a war- and crime-ridden place to a prospered and liveable metropolis.
Partners:Alcaldía de Medellín; Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Metropolitana
