The 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate, Shigeru Ban, is renowned for his inventive and resourceful design approach, which he applies not only to his private commissions but also to his extensive humanitarian efforts.
Partners:The Schindler Transit Management Group, Ebikon
ReTooling the Trades. #2 City – Climate – Architecture.
The second part focusses on a rising awareness of climatological issues in the design process with the potential for a more site-specific and contextually relevant architecture in the future. Partners:Dutch Embassy in Berlin; TU Berlin
ArchiAid: The Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Program
On the occasion of the Aedes exhibition opening, the dialogue focusses on the challenge of the architecture profession to connect and moderate between technical and governmental conditions as well as cultural behaviour related to environmental needs.
Partner: Japan Federation of Construction Contractors, Tohoku Branch Office; UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, Los Angeles; Japan Foundation, Cologne; Tchoban Foundation. Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin; Repro Ringel, Berlin
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
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
