With urban and environmental challenges at the forefront, the need for innovation in built environment education has become common knowledge, prompting discussions on curricula, educational practices, and the politics of practice-orientation. Partners:TU Berlin; University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, University College London; Urban Lab+
PARTIZIPATION MACHT ARCHITEKTUR
Without citizen's participation, hardly any major building project can be implemented. People do not just want to be informed, they want to actively participate and users' knowledge about spaces is indeed a valuable tool for architects in the design process. The book presents what successful participation can look like.
Partners:Baupiloten, Berlin; jovis Verlag, Berlin
A transatlantic dialogue with Roberta Washington. How can urban planning and architecture take into account the needs of migrants, people of color or those seeking refuge? And how do architects and urban planners from these communities become more visible?
Partners:TU Braunschweig; August Bebel Institut, Berlin; Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin; Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit, Integration und Frauen, Berlin; Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung, Berlin; Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin; Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
Transforming Cities
In parts of the world, new city foundations and large-scale urban expansions are still booming, while in Europe, with its already high degree of urbanisation, more cautious interventions in the urban structure are on the agenda.
Partners:Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, Berlin; jovis Verlag, Berlin
Zu hause in der Stadt. #2 Participation versus Segregation
Participatory culture and bottom-up initiatives have been a growing phenomenon in urban development for years: Citizens participate in the development of neighbourhoods and pilot projects, they demand and take responsibility by appropriating urban space.
Partners:Wüstenrot Stiftung, Ludwigsburg
IAES. 3rd International Architectural Education Summit
The summit provides a platform for exploring approaches to address new directions in architecture education. Partners:UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Los Angeles; IE School of Architecture, Madrid; Cassiopeia Foundation, Düsseldorf
Design and Politics. #9 Resilient and Democratic Futures
This 9th debate in the 2011/12 programme Design and Politics: The Next Phase explored what design can bring to spatial planning.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and the Environmen, The Hague; German Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development, Berlin; DutchDFA; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
Design and Politics. #8 Making Design and Politics
A discussion about the critical role of design education in the transforming design of cities.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Hague; International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR)
Design and Politics. #7 Re-city, the ‘Total Makeover’
Re-city is a bottom-up approach to the restructuring, renovation and reinvention of our cities, stemming not from initiatives, but out of city-ness, through schemes of any scale, any alliance, any 'rules and regulations' rather than through big projects.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
Design and Politics. #6 Moving Cities
How do we examine and appreciate the mutually influential relationships between transport modes and nodes, movement patterns, population shifts, and urban fabric and composition? What are the key planning tasks around this next stage of network mobility?
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
