The sixth and final Lab Talk in the series explores the connection between water, building and economy. Partners: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin
WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!? – #5 Materials, Energy, Technology
The fifth Lab Talk in the series explores the relationship between water, materials, building and technological requirements. Partners: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin
WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!? – #4 Water Infrastructures
The fourth Lab Talk in the series focuses on how to deal with urban water infrastructures in the wake of changing conditions for our cities. Partners: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU); the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin; GBA Lab, Shenzhen
WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!? – #3 Actors, Approaches and Processes in the Global South
The third Lab Talk in the series focuses on integrating water into planning processes using interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder approaches, with insights from the PolyUrbanWaters pilot sites in Southeast Asia Partners: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin, PolyUrbanWaters
WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING – #2 Urban Climate Impacts
Urban Climate Impacts is the second part of a series of six Lab Talks on building future resilience. Aedes aims to identify and discuss sustainable, water-related architectural and urban development projects that also take into account the (re)establishment of social and economic balance with greater socio-economic coherence through conscious water management. Partners: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück; Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Watermanagement, The Hague; OBEL Award, Copenhagen; Transsolar, Stuttgart;
PolyUrbanWaters Research Project
WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!? – #1 We Want Water!
This Lab Talk looks at the whole water cycle and building future resilience. It aims to identify and explore solution-driven, sustainable, water-related architectural and urban development projects. Partners:Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, PolyUrbanWaters Research Project
Lab Talk Series: WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!?
In a series of six Lab Talks, the Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory aims to identify and discuss sustainable, water-related architectural and urban development projects. Partners: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück, The Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Hague, The OBEL Award, Copenhagen, Transsolar, Stuttgart, PolyUrbanWaters Research Project
No Apocalypse Now!
Henk Ovink addresses the current and future climate and sustainability challenges and focusses on using water's unifying and collaborative capacity as a lever to design, progress, scale and speed up inclusive and innovative climate programmes, in partnership with all and by design. Partners:Bucerius Summer School, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
PolyUrbanWaters
In Southeast Asia, urbanisation and water management go hand in hand, but population growth, climate change, construction and water extraction can result in major challenges for cities in the region. The first international conference of the PolyUrbanWaters research and development project explores the political, ecological and social relevance of polycentric approaches in management of urban waters in Southeast Asia and around the world.
Partners:Borda e.V., Bremen; TU Berlin; TH Köln
Berlin and the Spree
The river environment of the Spree is the focus area to analyse and discuss the long-term interactions between humans and water along rivers as catchment areas for ecological. technological, industrial and societal realities. Partners: TU Braunschweig;; University of Pennsylvania.
