Das Skizzenbuch in Zeiten der Digitalen Transformation
The sketch and the sketchbook are indispensable elements in the architect's design process. The first sketches prepare essential decisions in the form-finding process.
Reimagining the Region
A symposium on the occasion of the Aedes exhibition opening Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Mexico–United States Region by Tatiana Bilbao and Nile Greenberg.
Partners:CEMEX Deutschland AG, Berlin; Mexican Cultural Institute in Germany, Berlin
Extrovert Interior
The past decade has seen the museum transform from a physical space for artifacts to a dynamic institution hosting events, discourse, and experiences, blurring boundaries with urban spaces and other cultural venues, raising questions about democratising knowledge, challenging urban centrality, redefining publicness, and impacting the role of architecture in museum design. Partners:Centre for the Future of Places, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Regions on the Rise. Culture and Architecture as Drivers for Rural Development
The symposium invites international policymakers, architects, planners, researchers, economists, curators and related professionals to the successful case study area of Songyang to share and archive experiences, strategies and new ideas for the development of the 'global rural region' of the future.
Partners: Songyang County Committee, Songyang County People's Government
WBM #2 – MIT SYSTEM IN DER MITTE
The second WBM symposium explores the further construction and social enhancement of neighbourhoods, the emergence of new living models and the demand for new forms of housing and services.
Partners: WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte; IMKEWOELK + Partner, Berlin; InitialDesign, Berlin
MUSEUM AS ACTIVATOR
There is a tendency in Germany and Australia for museums to transform the cultural context, and both countries face a need for strategies to address ownership as well as social and cultural integration in the city and the peripheries. The two-day symposium enabled a broad dialogue to include cultural experts, city planners, architects, artists and curators. Partners:Australian Government as part of the cultural initiative Australia now Germany 2017, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
“ColourID” – Farbstrategien in Architektur und Kommunikation
The symposium "colourID" dealt with questions of the cultural significance and spatial potential of colours. I
WBM #1 – MIT SYSTEM NACH OBEN
The second WBM symposium explores the further construction and social enhancement of neighbourhoods, the emergence of new living models and the demand for new forms of housing and services.
Partners: WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte; IMKEWOELK + Partner, Berlin; InitialDesign, Berlin
Museums and Cultural Spaces
ANCB conceptualised this international symposium accompanying the exhibition V.D.H.N. URBAN PHENOMENON at the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, to critically reflect on the role of museums today. Partners:Ministry of Culture of the Government of Moscow
MOBILISING THE PERIPHERY #3 – Focus Africa
The third symposium in the collaborative ANCB – Schindler Transit Management Group focusses on contemporary urban peripheries worldwide.
Partners: The Schindler Transit Management Group, Ebikon