During the first event of the programme, participants from diverse disciplines engage in discussions to provide an introduction to the ongoing development concerning territories, cultural borders, identities, and geopolitical corridors, sharing insights into their motivation, work, and positions on these matters. Partners:creative industries fund NL; Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #5: Craft in Code
A lecture by Richard Sennett, concluding the ANCB series Craftsmanship in the Digital Age. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Baunetz; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #4: Alternative Sketch to Site Processes
The digital era enables new structures for managing communication in the building process, like BIM. These frameworks involve manufacturers of building components and facilitate closer communication between architects and the production of finished components. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin; Rieder Group, Maishofen
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #3: Resetting Values for Architecture and the Building Industry
The third discussion explores societal issues impacting architecture practice, with a focus on factors like cost efficiency and energy performance. Digital fabrication presents an opportunity for closer collaboration between manufacturers and architects, allowing for the reintroduction of critical craftsmanship values in building practice. . Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin
New Functions of the Surface
Thinking the city as a sequence of layers, this investigation into the cities' envelope, surfaces and spheres goes beyond façades, roofs and pavements to serve as the starting point for a societal, technological, cultural and infrastructural analysis, offering a new integrated understanding of the city. Partners:Schüco International KG, Bielefeld
Rural-Urban Transition: Strategies in Diversity
A conversation with the curators of the 2017 UABB - Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen: Cities, Grow in Difference (城市共生) exploring diverse visions and strategies of urban growth to face the challenges of excessive urban expansion and the uniformisation of social life.
Partners: UABB – Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, Hong Kong
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #2: Innovative Building Components
This second discussion explores the potential of digital fabrication to expand the functional scope of building components beyond the structural and the aesthetic. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin; Rieder Group, Maishofen
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
überFLUSS #6
In this Lab Talk, we discuss the future of The Spree Canal, which is located between Fischerinsel and the Bode Museum. Partners:Flussbad Berlin e.V.
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #1: Architecture, Technology and Materiality
The opening discussion examines the relationship between design, materials, and digital technology in architecture. Manufacturers of ceramic and concrete components contribute to the exploration of material qualities and the potentials of digital fabrication. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin
