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"SMART CITY: THE NEXT GENERATION", Focus Southeast Asia
Saturday 8th June - Sunday 9th June 2013
A project by Aedes East International Forum for Contemporary Architecture NPO, in collaboration with the Goethe Institutes in Southeast Asia, with four workshops, an exhibition and a symposium.
The symposium is organized together with ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory.
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Call for Papers
Transmaterial Aesthetics: Experiments with Timber in Architecture and Technology
International Symposium at ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory
Tuesday 1st October - Wednesday 2nd October 2013
In order to explore the interplay between aesthetics and technology in timber architecture, HS Wismar and UTS Sydney seek submissions that probe the topic of transmateriality from perspectives that redress imbalances and missing links in the debate. Critical investigations of historic or theoretical content, as well as practice-oriented contributions and case studies exploring the latest technological research in timber are welcome. Proposals for workshops are also invited.
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Call for Participants
Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge
Monday 10th June 2013, 10am - Saturday 15th June 2013, 6pm
ANCB invites applications from practitioners and students to participate in an exciting workshop with regards to water as a factor in planning processes and the development of frameworks, resource management of water in the city and the house and the implications on design. A team of ca. 20 participants will join experts from the fields of architecture, design and engineering to develop design packages of proposals and processes, ideas, papers and sketches dealing with models and innovations.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Politecnico di Milano
29 April - 3 May 2013
For the third year students from the Bachelor in Architecture at the School of Architecture and Society of the Polytechnic of Milan are undertaking a Design Studio at ANCB to develop some issues taken from their thematic studio program dedicated to “Edgelands and urban agriculture”.
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Cinema of the Future 2013
Cinematic Acupuncture. The Cinema as Social and Creative Catalyst
27 April 2013, 12:00pm
Cinema of the Future 2013 is the fourth event in this ANCB series. This year's focus is on how the cinema, as a local meeting spot, can act as a catalyst for cohesive social change, using the Rollberg Cinema in Berlin-Neukölln as a case study. The final presentation showcased the results of a week long design studio with the Universidad Europea de Madrid, led by Angel Luis Fernández, and the Dessau School of Architecture, led by Sam Chermayeff. The participants conducted both on-site research and design work at the ANCB studio space to develop an analysis of the urban context and propose an architectural/urban intervention for the Rollberg Cinema and its surroundings. The central focus of the studio was: how can architecture and design contribute to the survival of a local cinema in times of ever increasing competition and in doing so activate the surrounding neighbourhood?
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Cinema of the Future 2013
Cinematic Acupuncture. The Cinema as Social and Creative Catalyst
19 April 2013
Cinema of the Future 2013 is the fourth event in this ANCB series. This year's focus is on how the cinema, as a local meeting spot, can act as a catalyst for cohesive social change, using the Rollberg Cinema in Berlin-Neukölln as a case study. The symposium presented an interdisciplinary dialogue about the role of the cinema as a social stimulator. Local agents joined specialists from different fields to debate the position of cinema in urban public space with regards to questions such as: How can the cinema reach out to a diverse range of inhabitants in a fast changing social landscape? How might the effects of a design intervention on the cinema radiate across the whole neighbourhood?
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Innovative Werkstoffe für die Energiewende: Energy Materials in
Design und Architektur
13. März 2013, 18:00 Uhr
Ob Dünnschichtsolarzellen zur Anwendung in kleinformatigen Produkten oder Textilien, ob Piezomaterialien zur Rückgewinnung mechanischer Energie oder bio-adaptive Algenfassaden für die Energieproduktion in moderner Architektur: Der Beschluss zur Energiewende durch die Bundesregierung hat einen Innovationsschub ausgelöst, der die Energieproduktion kleinteiliger und dezentraler werden lässt. Im Zusammenhang mit dieser Umorientierung des
Energiemarktes wird das Thema energetischer Materialien und Technologien auch zusehends interessanter für Designer und Architekten.
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Light Beyond the Atmosphere
22. Februar 2013, 18:30 Uhr
Light Beyond the Atmosphere ist die dritte Veranstaltung im Rahmen des ANCB Zumtobel Research: The City Lights Project. Dieses Projekt untersucht gegenwärtige Richtungen und zukünftige Anforderungen bezüglich des Lichts in Architektur und Stadt und fragt nach den Instrumenten, die diese neuen Anforderungen erfüllen können. Es stellt Ideen vor, die direkt in die Prozesse der Transformation unserer Umwelt eingreifen können. In der Debatten werden je zwei Positionen aus den Bereichen der Fotografie und der Bildherstellung sowie der Architektur gegenübergestellt.
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Design and Politics: the next phase
9 - Resilient and Democratic Futures: The Power of Design
Friday, 18 January 2013
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
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Sketch, Script, Score. Figures of Architectural Thinking
14 December 2012
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Which role does drawing still have in the design process? Which are the most frequent sources of inspiration to influence the theoretical work that is behind the making of architecture? What relationships are there between meta-design materials, work processes and theoretical reflections? On the occasion of the release of two new titles of “Inspiration and Process in Architecture”, a book series devoted to the use of drawing in architecture, Moleskine and ANCB present a discussion between three featured architects: Wiel Arets, Peter Wilson and Cino Zucchi.
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The Presence of Light
7. Dezember 2012, 18:30 Uhr
Presence of Light ist die zweite Veranstaltung im Rahmen des ANCB Zumtobel Research The City Lights Project, das gegenwärtige Richtungen und zukünftige Anforderungen im Umgang mit Licht in der Stadt untersucht. Es fragt nach Instrumenten und Methoden, wie neue Ideen, Konzepte und innovative Anwendungen direkt in den transformativen Prozess der gebauten Umwelt eingreifen können. In der Diskussion werden zwei Positionen - aus dem Bereich der Fotografie und der Architektur - vorgestellt.
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Migration and City
Thursday, 29 November
at Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
ANCB The Metropolitan Library continues its collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin, and is pleased to also collaborate with the British Council. This expert discussion explores a mutually supportive relationship between migration and the city by tracing the experience of the migrant; as they are drawn to a city, as they experience their new physical and social surroundings, and ultimately, as they become politically engaged for the future of that city.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Resilience and Democracy: Urban Regions Under Stress
9 - 18 Nov 2012
Under the leadership of Felix Madrazo (The Why Factory) and Marta Relats (Design As Politics), students from the TU Delft developed two 'tools' to assist spatial planning at regional scale. With Berlin-Brandenburg as case study, they proposed: a participation tool for generating and responding to a range of diverse development agendas; and a stress test tool for demonstrating the resilience of the built environment in the context of demographic, economic and climatic factors played out to their extremes.
The proposed 'tools' will be presented in summary at ANCB on January 18th 2013, prompting a discussion on the power and potential of spatial design (architecture, urban design, design) for spatial planning in general.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
msa / münster school of architecture
1 - 3 November 2012
“Das ‘serviced apartment’ ist eine Beherbergungsbetrieb in städtischer Umgebung, in dem die Unterbringung für längere Zeit erfolgt. Der Service reicht von sehr geringem Angebot bis zu einem hotelmäßigen Roomservice.”
(Definition des DEHOGA Bundesverbands)Die Fragestellung des Studios ist, inwieweit sich Le Corbusiers Wohntraum vom „Wohnen im Ozeanliner“ (in: “Précisions”, 1929) ins heutige Berlin, die Stadt des “Anderswo”, transferieren lässt.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universität Stuttgart
31 October - 4 November 2012
In dem Studio sollen die Möglichkeiten von Open-Source für die Architektur gemeinsam mit einem Experten auf diesem Gebiet ausgelotet werden. Aufgabe ist es, für Berlin ein Open Source House zu entwickeln.
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White Mountain. Chilean Contemporary Architecture - Lectures
Friday, 26 October 2012, 6:00PM
Prior to the exhibition opening "White Mountain. Chilean Contemporary Architecture" at Aedes Architecture Forum, the attending Chilean architects Alejandro Aravena, Yves Besançon, Mathias Klotz and Pablo Larrain will give a presentation of their work.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
22 - 26 October 2012
428.000. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Studie des Pestel-Instituts. 428.000 Wohnungen für Geringverdiener fehlen derzeit in Berlin. Pro Jahr verschwinden zusätzlich 12.500 Sozialwohnungen vom Markt. Was sich in Ballungszentren wie Hamburg, München und Köln schon lange bewahrheitet hat, kündigt sich auch in Berlin an. Einzelpersonen und Familien mit geringem Einkommen werden aus den Zentren der deutschen Großstädte verdrängt.
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InForming a Smarter Urban - Helsinki
Monday, 1 October 2012
Copyright: 'Nordkapp' by helsinki.urbanflow.io
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The City of Helsinki is engaged in a number of Smart City projects that explore the use of open data and digital technologies in urban development. One such project, the 2011 IBM Smarter Cities Challenge responded to the occasion of Helsinki as Word Capital of Design by expanding the engagement of design in this Smart City approach. Taking this question further, this public debate offered perspectives on the scope and implications for architecture and urban design of the growing trend towards Smart Cities.
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From Research to Design - Mobility
Thursday 13 September
ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory is pleased to continue its collaboration with the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on one of its core subjects, mobility. ANCB and the KOSMOS project of the Humboldt Universität are endeavours dedicated to exploring and advancing interdisciplinary enquiry. While ANCB is focused on the design disciplines with the city as its field of action, the KOSMOS project is focused on the natural sciences and the humanities relating to ‘knowledge and design'. We regard both endeavours as complimentary and mutually beneficial.
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Architektur und Literatur - Lesung und Ausstellungseröffnung
7. September 2012, 18-19 Uhr
Blickwechsel ist ein Buchexperiment des Architekturbüros agps - Marc Angélil, Sarah Graham, Manuel Scholl, Reto Pfenninger und Hanspeter Oester mit Sitz in Zürich / Los Angeles. Es präsentiert siebzehn für das Werk von agps zentrale Bauten in den USA und der Schweiz. Fünf Autorinnen und Autoren folgen in ihren Kurzgeschichten und Essays der individuellen Spur des Gebäudes und reflektieren so die Bauten im Zustand ihrer Nutzung.
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MACHEN! 3
Alte Materialien neu verbaut:
Wie man alte Bautraditionen modernisieren kann
17. August 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Im dritten und letzten Projektgespräch der Reihe diskutierten Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture und Eike Roswag, Ziegert | Roswag | Seiler ihre Gewinnerprojekte.
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MACHEN! 2
Heizen mit Beton, Kühlen mit Lehm:
Wie man Materialien in ihrer ganzen Bandbreite nutzen kann
3. August 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Das zweite Projektgespräch bestritten Anna Heringer und Martin Rauch vom Team Heringer Rauch Nägele Waibel Naji und Frank Barkow von Barkow Leibinger zusammen mit Mike Schlaich.
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MACHEN! 1
Savoir Vivre: Wie man die Stadt so (um-)baut, dass sie verschiedene Lebensstile ermöglicht
13. Juli 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Die Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction zeichnet seit 2004 Architekturprojekte aus, die Nachhaltigkeit nicht als technologisches Sahnehäubchen verstehen, sondern einen intelligenten Gestaltungsansatz zur Entwurfsgrundlage machen. Ergänzend zur Ausstellung MACHEN! Die deutschen Gewinner der Holcim Awards 2011 / 2012 im Aedes Architekturforum fanden drei Diskussionsveranstaltungen im ANCB statt, in denen die Preisträger ihre Projekte vorstellten und über deren aktuellen Entwicklungsstand berichteten.vor der Ausstellungseröffnung.
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BMW Guggenheim LAB
The BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin is offering a continuous programme from June 15th to July 29th. It is located next to ANCB at the Pfefferberg. The BMW Guggenheim Lab is presented in cooperation with ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory. Learn more at bmwguggenheimlab.org.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
University of Kentucky, School of Design
30 May - 27 July 2012
Berlin is a city that resides in a perpetual state of transformation resulting in unique spatial conditions. Through the use of mapping as a projective design tool, we seek new opportunities for the synthesis of the peculiarities of small-scale internal spaces, such as the Berliner Zimmer, and the larger network of Berlin’s public spatial occupancies to reconsider inhabitation of the street.
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Urban PlayScapes: Initiating Encounter in the Fragmented City
22 May 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
A celebration of the installation in Berlin of the BMW Guggenheim Lab designed by Atelier Bow-Wow. The BMW Guggenheim Lab is presented in cooperation with ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory.
In this era of urban migration, the culturally diverse city is becoming a fragmented city. Gaps are growing between low- and high-income areas, between immigrants and ‘natives’, and even between globally connected individuals and their host city.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau
14-18 May 2012
Following the 10 critical issues facing cities identified by ANCB the 'Studio XY' is dealing with the transformation capabilities of grown urban structure. How to modify quarters to ‘get ready' for the needs of a modern urban life?
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Making DESIGN AND POLITICS
The Concluding Debate
25 April 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Reflecting on what was learned in the ANCB 2011 series Design and Politics: The Next Phase, this 8th debate outlined alternative guiding concepts for making our urban environment.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Politecnico di Milano
23-30 April 2012
The theme of the studio combines two topics that are emerging as important issues of the contemporary urban condition and urban economy: edgelands, spaces between the urban and the rural which don’t have a fixed destination and shape, and urban agriculture, an activity integrated into - and interacting with - the urban economic and ecological system. The emerging of themes, focused on a new consideration of the role of the spaces in-between the urban and the rural, and on the relationship of city and agriculture or of production and consumption and leisure, have drawn the attention of planning and urban and landscape design to a specific typology of “urban agriculture”, which plays economic, spatial, ecological and social roles.
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Cities and Change and Challenge
18 April 2012, 7.30pm
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
HolzWerkHolz Design Studio
April 2 - 13, 2012
In diesem Design Studio, das im Rahmen der Werkschau HolzWerkHolz des Architekturbüros Kaden Klingbeil im Aedes Architekturforum stattfindet, beschäftigen sich 30 Studenten zwei Wochen lang mit dem Thema mehrgeschossiger Holzbau in der Innenstadt von Berlin anhand eines Fallbeispiels in Berlin-Neukölln.
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Bodies of Light
March 16, 2012
Bodies of Light is the first of four events within the ANCB Zumtobel Research entitled The City Lights Project. It seeks to explore current directions and future requirements regarding the city's light, while asking for the instruments to answer these - ideas that can engage directly in the transformative process of the built environment.
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Cinema of the Future 2012
New Strategies for a Neighbourhood Cinema.
The Eiszeit Arthouse Cinema in Kreuzberg as case study
University of Pennsylvania
Technical University Braunschweig
2-10 March 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE!
By nature of the programme, cinemas are introverted spaces. What kind of atmosphere can this space have and how can this form the cinema experience? Transitional spaces can also play an important role, for example as a meeting space. What other qualities are important? Finally, the cinema is imbedded in the surrounding city fabric. How can a cinema affect the urban context and visa-versa? What issues can play a role in creating positive synergies?
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Cinema of the Future 2012
New Strategies for a Neighbourhood Cinema.
The Eiszeit Arthouse Cinema in Kreuzberg as case study
2 March 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Berlin is Germany's cinema capital with its large variety of different programmes and events, in particular the International Film Festival Berlin. Yet there are numerous challenges facing the city's cinema landscape today. The ANCB-Series Cinema of the Future aims at initiating a continuous debate on the subject of cinema in public urban space. At the symposium, local agents joined specialists from different fields to debate the positioning of cinema in urban public space with regard to questions such as: How can an independent cinema survive in a climate of ever-growing competition both financially and in terms of programmatic profile? Can a cinema activate a neighbourhood and integrate different uses and users? How can the cinema reach out to the fast changing social landscape of Kreuzberg when inhabitants feel often threatened by urban upgrading measures?
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Design and Politics: the next phase
7 - Re-city, the ‘Total Makeover’
17 February 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The 7th and final event in our 2011 series Design and Politics: The Next Phase, this debate focuses on the existing city, one of the biggest challenges for any city-maker, be they an architect, politician, developer or other. It is about the transformation of the existing and the way in which new collaborations emerge out of this transformative task.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Europea de Madrid
February 13-18, 2012
The changes which contemporary cities face result from an evolving paradigm of the societies that inhabit them. We shall try to transform the existing pavilion on Teutoburger Platz gardens into a new public space for "welfare”. The role played by such content will be active at the suggestion of a new social dimension. Students should propose both, the new programme for the existing pavilion as well as the transformation of all or parts of its current design.
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Profiling the European City - Notes from Cologne and Copenhagen
February 3, 2012, 4.30pm
Cultural and urban planning strategies for the European City of tomorrow will be presented and discussed through case-studies concepts and projects from Cologne and Copenhagen.
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Call for Interns for the BMW Guggenheim Lab Project in Berlin
ANCB seeks part-time interns!
BMW Guggenheim Lab New York
Photos: Kristopher McKay © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
As the main collaborating partner, ANCB is pleased to offer these internships.
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Design and Politics: the next phase
6 - Moving Cities, Meaning and Mobility
20 January 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Moving Cities, Meaning and Mobility is the 6th of seven podium discussions in the 2011 series Design and Politics: The Next Phase. It addresses the complexity and interdependency between urban development, infrastructure, social and physical networks and the meaning of place, system and movement for the validation of the human capacity to economise through cityness.
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Thomas Sieverts and Lars Lerup: Lacunas - The Middle Landscape
January 23, 2012, 6.00pm
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE NOW! Routinely dismissed as mere sprawl, the middle landscape is the black hole of recent urbanism, absorbing human energy and resources but seldom revealing the principles of its operation. Besides the recent affirmation for the dense city under the auspice of sustainability, the reality confronts us with a rather complex conurbation and a weak set of planning instruments.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
REM KOOLHAAS - PETER SLOTERDIJK
29 November 2011
The video recording of the debate between Rem Koolhaas and Peter Sloterdijk moderated by Stephan Trüby is now available. We would like to thank Rem Koolhaas, Peter Sloterdijk and Stephan Trüby for an inspiring debate and the Dutch Embassy for hosting the event.
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Design and Politics: the next phase
5 - 75-90-3: Who is Our City?
25 November 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The 5th of seven podium discussions in this series with the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, this event is a co-operation with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and focuses on the potential that increasing urbanisation brings for the collective as well as the individual in this ‘stacked’ and mixed city and what this means for politics, urban planning and design.
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Die Großfassade aus PET-Flaschen des EcoArk Pavillon in Taipeh
23. November 2011
Plastikflaschen prägen unsere Welt eindrücklich, mit den bekannten negativen
Umweltkonsequenzen. Wenn es nach dem taiwanischen Architekten Arthur Huang geht, hat das Material aber durchaus das Potenzial, einen nachhaltigeren Beitrag zu leisten. Er realisierte er auf der internationalen Gartenschau in Taiwan den “EcoArk Pavilion”, ein Ausstellungspavillon, dessen von ihm entwickelte "Pollibrick-" Fassade komplett aus rezyklierten PET-Flaschen besteht. Die National Geographic Dokumentation 'Megastructures EcoArk' zeigt die Entwicklung der Idee und über Technologie, Nachhaltigkeit und die Potenziale des Materials diskutieren im Anschluss Hartmut Gaßne, Miniwiz und Wolfram Putz, GRAFT unter der Moderation des Architekturkritikers und Verlegers Andreas Ruby.
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Design and Politics: the next phase
4 - Learning to Provoke
21 October 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The fourth of 7 podium discussions in the 2011 series Design and Politics: the next phase. It explores a new role for architecture, as a critical instrument in a more politically engaged, pro-active and provocative alternative to ‘standard’ urban planning approaches.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Diego Portales / Santiago de Chile
September 19 - 30, 2011
Berlin has a voluminous presence of water both surrounding the city and crossing it. Despite this, Berlin's relationship with the water is not clear, and historically the Spree doesn’t seem to have the leading role as public space that the rivers in Cologne, Paris and London have. The workshop explores the net of lakes, channels and rivers in Berlin with the objective to develop projects that elucidate the relationship between the city and its waterfronts. The assignment is to scan these sites, detect significant points, and through permanent or temporary interventions, show them and propose significant alterations using using video as a tool.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
3 - Climate Changing our Cities: 'Cool', or Wet and Warm?
9 September 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The third in a series of seven thematic debates taking place in 2011 / 2012. 'Design and Politics: The next Phase' was initiated by ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory in collaboration with Henk Ovink, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
August 22 – September 12, 2011
The workshop explores how rivers have shaped our civilization, and how we, in turn, have shaped them. It considers rivers in their ecological and economic functions as well as their role in the mythological narrative of humankind. Specifically, the studio considers our various relationships with waterways, be they symbiotic, parasitic, competitive, dominant or servile, challenging students to propose new, more sustainable strategies for living with our rivers.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
2 - On the Surface of Architecture?
28 July 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The second in a series of seven thematic debates taking place in 2011 / 2012.'Design and Politics: The next Phase' was initiated by ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory in collaboration with Henk Ovink, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Pratt Institute, New York
July 18 - August 5, 2011
To study the history of Tempelhof Airport is to trace decisive moments in German and Berlin history: From its use as an experimental airfield in the 19th century, through the dramatic events during the 1948–49 airlift, to the large-scale international landscape and urban design competition held in 2009, the “Tempelhofer Feld” reflects glory and abyss of German ingenuity and political stance.
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Cinema of the Future 2011
Back to the Future?
Seminal Concepts for the Cinema in the City with the new ZooPalast as Example
15 July 2011
On the occasion of the Aedes exhibition opening 'Cinema of the Future. Cinema and Urban Public Space', this podium discussion is another event in the ANCB series 'Cinema of the Future' that is intended to stimulate an interdisciplinary dialogue among experts of various fields and to be the starting point to a continuous debate on a new positioning of cinema in urban public space beyond the ubiquitous discussion of the digitalisation of cinema technology.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
July 13 - July 23, 2011
Imagine a circular band of civic domains around the inner city of Berlin. A circular campus consisting of academic institutions, housing, private companies, and parks. Investigating the Berlin S-Bahn-Ring means being concerned with the urban space of the city centre and of the city edge. If we rethink the chain of voids along the Berlin S-Bahn-Ring, can we develop new prototypical worklife models for the European City?
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Iberoamericana / Universidad de Las Americas
July 4 - July 25, 2011
As of 2011 the relationship between public spaces and private interests in the public realm is under fierce debate on many levels of society and in many German cities. Especially in Berlin the contested spaces are numerous, the most symbolic being the incomplete Mauerpark-projekt on the former frontline of the cold-war era.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
City and Region: Learning from Berlin, Melbourne and Limerick
17 June 2011 (3.30pm - 6.00pm)
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Creative, Informal, Temporary, Berlin
17 June 2011 (10am-12pm)
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
SAUL Intelligence Unit 2011
University of Limerick
10 - 16 June 2011
Researching Ireland's 'Living Space'
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Politecnico di Milano
29 May – 5 June, 2011
Urban growth has marginalised agriculture in the metropolitan context. Recently, however, the attention of planning and urban and landscape design has been drawn to the specific typology of “urban agriculture” and it economic, spatial, ecological and social roles – especially in Berlin with its abundance of open space. This workshop aims at exploring a new way to deal with uncertain spaces, using agriculture as a means to rehabilitate urban landscape. The study area is the Landschaftspark Herzberge.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Who Activates Cultural Space Today? A Seoul - Berlin Dialogue
May 20th 2011, 5pm - 6.15pm
On the occasion of the opening of our exhibition on renowned Korean architect and cultural figurehead Kim Swoo Geun (1931-1986), and in the presence of his daughter, Aedes celebrates the remarkable cultural commitment of this individual and asks who his present-day equivalents might be, in Seoul and in Berlin - the former recognised for its deep yet dynamic cultural formations and the latter as one of the world’s hothouses for emerging culture in all fields? How is culture thought of, defined and activated today? By whom and using which mechanisms? What is its infrastructure, its political role and its local significance?
The short career of Kim Swoo Geun spanned three political regimes and consequently three distinct periods of building projects manifesting the ideologies of each of these regimes. Kim Swoo Geun built many of these major projects, becoming the most influential 20th century architect in Korea. His premature death left behind another equally influential legacy as tireless advocate, connoisseur and patron of Korean arts, both traditional and avant-garde, whose activities laid the foundation stones for the rich and complex culture of Korea today.
This symposium will be in English only.
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My Knowledge Space: A New Public Library Prototype for the 21st Century - the New Berlin Library as Prototype
14 May 2011, 9am - 6pm
The City of Berlin is considering to build the new Berlin Library on the former Tempelhof airport field (now Tempelhofer Freiheit). Before the competition and planning phase kicks off, ANCB in collaboration with the Central and Regional Library Berlin want to explore the roles, tasks and functions of the public library of the 21st century as well as the demands it has to meet.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Hochschule Lausitz, Hochschule Nysa, Politechnika Łódzka, Oberstufenzentrum Elbe-Elster
4-8 April, 2011
Berlin - Oberschöneweide is located at the northern border of the river Spree. In the past, the area went through vital functional and atmospheric transformations. Today the area is again in a remarkable transformation process. New programmes like the University of Applied Sciences Berlin settled here. One of the most fascinating building ensembles on this site will be subject of this workshop: The electric power transformation substation Oberspree. Based on the new programmatic requirements of the site, the participants will develop spatial concepts and sensitive atmospheric ideas.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Liveable Cities -
Architecture Agendas in Singapore and Germany
28 March 2011, 5pm - 7pm
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More than green! - The added value of Cradle to Cradle in Architecture and Urban Planning
March 9, 2011, 7pm
William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer, founding principal of William McDonough + Partners Architecture and Community Design, Virgina, USA. He is also the cofounder and principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), which employs a comprehensive Cradle to Cradle design protocol to chemical benchmarking, supply-chain integration, energy and materials assessment, clean-production qualification, and sustainability issue management and optimization.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Die Dynamik des Wandels
3. März 2011
Seit 30 Jahren gibt es den „Alternativen Nobelpreis“. Er unterstützt Projekte, die Wandel schaffen, Menschen und Gruppen, die sich nicht mit Bestehendem zufrieden geben, die aufrütteln aber auch praktisch verändern. Jacob von Uexküll wird die Idee des „Alternativen Nobelpreises“ vorstellen und im Gespräch mit Monika Griefahn (niedersächsische Umweltministerin a.D.) beleuchten, wie die „Vorbilder“ und „Projekte der Hoffnung“ die Gesellschaft verändern und wie auch das Konzept von Cradle to Cradle® zur Dynamik des Wandels beiträgt.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Cinema of the Future 2011
Can We? Make More Than A Cinema!
The Why Factory, TU Delft
18-24 February 2011
In 2010, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival, Aedes Network Campus Berlin realised a successful international architecture workshop on the cinema of the future and its role in urban public space, thereby achieving a range of fascinating architectural visions and an accompanying discussion around new architectural, urban and social dimensions for the cinema typology. This year's workshop is focussing on envisioning the design and functional revitalisation of the arthouse cinema typology, by facilitating its capacity to facilitate an extremely complex set of demands.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
TouchHouse. Smart Living - Communicating Surfaces
February 3-6, 2011
The energy efficiency of residential and office buildings as well as of entire cities can be significantly increased by means of intelligent and networked technologies. Man enters a new kind of interaction with the built environment here. Digital building control, dynamic spaces and the accompanying challenges for architects, developers and decision-makers are not only a question of technical feasibility and architectural innovative potential. They concern basic human behavioural patterns. Acquired behaviour, needs and wishes as well as social influences determine our usage of space, the communication between man and architecture, the awareness of energy efficient action – and possibly hinder the acceptance of networked and self-regulating technologies. Thus, it is the interface between the built environment and the user – the communication with the surface – that often hampers the full use of energy efficient building and planning’s potential. So, how can systems be developed that allow for an intuitive handling and an
adaptation of behaviour?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
1 - Cradle to Cradle: Creative and Effective Urbanism
27 January 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Opening event in a series of seven thematic debates taking place in 2011 / 2012. 'Design and Politics: the next phase' was initiated by ANCB The Metroplitan Laboratory in collaboration with Henk Ovink, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Symposium mit begleitender Ausstellung
Symposium: Freitag, 14. Januar 2011, 17–20.30 Uhr
Ausstellung: 15. - 16. Januar, 13 - 17 Uhr
Die Werkschau gibt einen Einblick in die junge Architekturszene in Katalonien ausgewählt von den Architekten Pere Buil (1973), Carlos Cámara (1980) und Joan Vitòria (1973). Gezeigt werden die Werke von 10 Büros, deren Architekten zwischen 30 und 40 Jahre alt sind.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
PBSA - Peter Behrens School of Architecture Düsseldorf
22-30 October, 2010
The Reading Gardens
The starting point of "Reading Gardens: Spaces of Knowledge and Learning" is the City of Berlin’s intention to build a new Central Public Library for Berlin (ZLB) on the edge of Tempelhof Field (former Templehof airport). In the context of an international renaissance in public library design, a one semester master class of the PBSA will examine the future of 'the preservation of knowledge and our rituals of accessing information'.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
18-22 October, 2010
The Anatomy of Creative Quarters II
Architecture is a living system, creativity also. It happens spontaneously, with unknown outcome, or through a process using established tools aiming at a particular result envisaged by real estate developers. Anatomy, a term originally used in medicine meaning to separate, to cut open, will be transferred to architectural design and design thinking.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Weniger ist Zukunft
9. Oktober 2010
Schrumpfung ist ein globales Phänomen. Die IBA-Pioniere aus Sachsen-Anhalt haben sich den Herausforderungen in den vergangenen acht Jahren gestellt. Nach einer IBA-Bilanz wagt die Veranstaltung einen Blick in die Zukunft. Klimawandel, Klimaschutz und das damit einhergehende Ende der Nutzung fossiler Energien werden zu massiven Veränderungen der Siedlungsformen und unseres Lebensstils führen. Weitblick, Kreativität und Mut zum Experiment werden auch weiterhin gefragt sein. Zum Abschluss der IBA diskutieren internationale Experten auf einem Symposium Projekte und Prozesse der IBA Stadtumbau 2010, um Impulse für innovative Perspektiven zu geben.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
DIA Dessau
7-13 October 2010
Work-Wall at Pfefferberg
Office space has gone through radical change in the last century ranging from clusters of isolated cubicles to so called office landscapes. While the organization of a traditional corporation was based on the factory model of hierarchical workflow, today’s workspace is modeled around environments that allow for interaction, like the scientific lab or the design studio. Our workshop will take the discussion of the office environment to a new level by abandoning the traditional preoccupation with the office plan in order to concentrate on the office section.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
University of Limerick, Ireland
2-8 October, 2010
Habour
This study trip based at ANCB is an intensive production week focussing on the future potential of Tempelhof. It is intended to offer a valuable opportunity to students to further reinforce their thesis work to date on a large scale.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Tsunami Trace File: A Documentary by Mathias Klotz and Carlos Perez, Chile 2010
September 20, 2010, 7.30pm
The documentary, which was selected for the Chilean Pavilion at this year's Biennale in Venice, monitors the traces of debris and destruction left by the 2010 tsunami in Chile. The visual material was taken on a trip to the affected area a month after the incident and forms the main longitudinal axis of this assembly trip. Dramatically different from the stridency of the news coverage that lasted for weeks and formed Chile's reality of the disaster, the film's capture and editing - without resorting to testimony - had the purpose of constructing a "trace file" of the tsunami, including silence. The devastation and abandonment function as eloquent signs of the disaster's magnitude. Designed to be played on loop, the film, though only twenty minutes long, seems virtually infinite in order to cause the evocation of the destructive event and its incalculability through an endless sequel of ruins and debris.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Nagoya City University and HTWK Leipzig
19-25 September, 2010
Reset: The anatomy of Creative Quarters
With the “Raise of the creative class” Richard Florida detects the rise of a new social class - including scientists, engineers, architects, educators, writers, artists, entertainers, etc. - whose economic function is to create new ideas, new technology, and new creative content. This group shares common characteristics, such as creativity, individuality, diversity, and merit and profoundly influences work and lifestyle issues.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
European University Madrid
13-19 September 2010
Seeing the Mediterranean in Berlin
Where are the limits of the Mediterranean? Understanding the Mediterranean like a common space to all the cultures that share it, today more than ever, elevates it as a centre of shared identity. From this great emptiness, forces are radiated. The social, political and econommic circumstances at global level allow for strong defining relations in different layers- history, legend, myths, culture, economy, politics and society. These relations are in constant change and make new conditions for architecture and urban design.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
École Speciale d'Architecture
13-17 September 2010
Centre for Humanitarian Affairs
The task for this semester is to develop a Centre for Humanitarian Affairs. It will be located on a site where the french company Total is currently developing their german headquarter in form of a tower building. The building is located directly to the north of Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof train station where a 40-hectare development area known as the Europacity Quarter is currently under development.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Architectural Association School of Architecture
3-12 September, 2010
AA Berlin Laboratory – Experiments in Dwelling
Post-wall Berlin has emerged as a major player in contemporary cultural production. As a laboratory of lifestyles and modes of production, it attracts an influential community of highly creative people from around the globe. The AA Berlin Laboratory continues to explores the role of experimentation and interdisciplinary ways of working, harvesting this exceptional energy. Now in its second year, this intense workshop explores tools and systems of experimentation, focusing on the idea of dwelling.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Re-act Lab: São Paulo Architecture Experiment
August 12-22, 2010
The ANCB series Re-act Lab has a potential-focused rather than problem-focused agenda. It confronts the particular challenges of cities or regions throughout the world by facilitating transdisciplinary enquiry into appropriate and responsible actions in architecture and urbanism. This 10-day Re-act Lab research studio will introduce a group of advanced students from across the world to the realities of Brazilian cities and provide the wider public with internal and external perspectives on these.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2-22 August, 2010
Latent Urbanism | Berlin
When Conrad Schumann left his post guarding the Berlin Wall, choosing instead to throw down his rifle and make a leap for Western liberty, he became more than just a symbol of Cold War defection: he became the first Latent Urbanist. Seizing opportunity in an increasingly inhospitable city, he redefined the way we engage with our urban environments. He demonstrated how small, carefully considered action, enacted where the fabric of our cities are most fragile can have the most potent consequences.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
University of Limerick
25 July - 11 August, 2010
SNN
While looking out from Shannon airport terminal it seems strange that we seldom look upon airports in the way we did and sometimes still do, as harbours, connected as they are to distant places, while being places in themselves, intimately connected to and impacting upon their immediate environment.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Pratt Institute, New York
3 July - 1 August, 2010
Unity and Freedom Memorial Germany
On 9 November 2007, the German parliament, the Bundestag, decided that the Federal Republic of Germany would erect a Memorial to Freedom and Unity in remembrance of the peaceful revolution in the autumn of 1989 and the reinstatement of Germany's national unity.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
5-23 July, 2010
Imaginal Cities: Kreuzberg's Spree waterfront
With Form rather than Program as the main tool for the understanding and intervening in the existing condition, this unit is essentially an investigation of Form through Form. The testing round for this investigation is located (in order to also engage the broader ANCB discussion on Demarcations)on the River Spree Waterfront in Kreuzberg, specifically on an inner island neighbour to Baddenschiff. The projects seek to transform this space into cultural endeavor(s) and in doing so find how architecture can engage with local discourse.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
The Why Factory, TU Delft
18-29 April 2010
The Future of the Past
This unit by The Why Factory, TU Delft aims to brainstorm possible future scenarios in a complex urban setting using innovative representation means. Berlin provides a multilayered fabric which reveals its historic depth but provides flexibility for urban innovation.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Zurich University of the Arts
15-18 April 2010
What would a culture of political representation look like in Design?
Design2context, Institute for Design Research, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. Postgraduate students from the Design Cultures (MAS) programme take part in a transdisciplinary studio led by Rudi Baur (Graphic Design), Vera Kockot (Cultural and Visual Studies) and Clemens Bellut (Philosophy). The working title of the studio is " What would a culture of political representation look like in Design?"
The studio takes place in the context of a parallel internal ZHdK research colloquium with guest lectures by Simona Mahrenholz (Berlin), Julia Vogel (Berlin) and Sophie Prinz (Berlin).
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Berlage Institute
28 March - 2 April 2010
1-9 November 2009
Metropolitan Imprints Berlin: New Workspace Architecture in Hybrid Environments
What does it mean to work in cities today? This research studio analyses the contemporary city’s daily work-life conditions and considers a re-organization as a means of manifesting the future city.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
École Spéciale d'Architecture
19 - 24 March 2010
The Wriez
Berlin’s reputation as one of the most creative cities in the world has resulted in a recent boom of 'creatives' moving into the city from all over the world. This in turn is triggering the emergence of new developments in the city, much as German reunification triggered a development boom in the '90s. These new developments are making significant changes to their urban contexts and are impacting massively on the demographic character of each district.
This task of this unit is to explore how the original and distinctive character of the area around the former Wriezener train station can to be retained in the architecture of urban design of once such new development-a prototypical 'cultural station' for Berlin’s creative and experimental minds, a place to meet and join groups for sport, events and public discussions.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Cinema of the Future 2010
Berlin Motion
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
13-20 February 2010
This Design Studio coincides with the 60th birthday of the Berlinale. It explores the notions of registration, representation and transformation of architectural space through motion media such as film/video and digital animation techniques.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
École Spéciale d'Architecture
17 - 20 September 2009
Berlin Walls
The history of the Berlin Wall, its demolition and consequent developments prompt us to take a closer look at Berlin's less noticed urban borders. Borders created by big roads, railway lines, waterways as well as specific sites like the Zoo and the government area. In the Tiergarten area (West City) we find a cluster of borders dividing areas of significant spatial and social diversity. This raises the question as to which of these should be kept, removed or bridged.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Architectural Association School of Architecture
4-12 September 2009
AA Berlin Laboratory
AA Berlin Laboratory is an intensive workshop that explores modes of creative production and their manifestations in the city. Using Berlin as a field for investigation and intervention, it aims to trace the complex relationship between cultural production and the city. The role of experimentation is at the core of this inquiry.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Anahuac & Universidad Iberoamericana
13 - 31 July 2009
Imaginal Cities
This studio investigated issues of demarcation using Pfefferberg's old underground beer factory as a testing ground. The studio stemmed from a critical approach to the existing space, adopting abstract analytical tools for design exploration.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Europea de Madrid
15 - 28 June 2009
Liquid Life
Berlin's urban setting is seen as an open field where relationships amongst communities can be understood as a continuous process. The transformation from solid to liquid modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting. Adopting four distinct media, Students and professors from UEM developed proposals for urban reconfiguration along the River Spree in the socio-economically charged context of Berlin's Kreuzberg.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
The Why Factory (T?F), TU-Delft
17 - 23 May 2009
2059, 50 years after the crisis
This studio was constructed around a series of realities brought about by the current financial crisis. The studio aimed at debating and visualising new possibilities that the crisis might open to the city of Berlin, as well as to the discipline of architecture itself. How to use the crisis as a momentum for change?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Global Developments and Academic Networks:
EDUCATING THE GLOBAL ARCHITECT
New Policies of Space in Times of Globalization
18. - 19. April 2009
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Symposium/Smart Talk
"SMART CITY: THE NEXT GENERATION", Focus Southeast Asia
Saturday 8th June - Sunday 9th June 2013
A project by Aedes East International Forum for Contemporary Architecture NPO, in collaboration with the Goethe Institutes in Southeast Asia, with four workshops, an exhibition and a symposium.
The symposium is organized together with ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory.
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NEWS
Call for Papers
Transmaterial Aesthetics: Experiments with Timber in Architecture and Technology
International Symposium at ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory
Tuesday 1st October - Wednesday 2nd October 2013
In order to explore the interplay between aesthetics and technology in timber architecture, HS Wismar and UTS Sydney seek submissions that probe the topic of transmateriality from perspectives that redress imbalances and missing links in the debate. Critical investigations of historic or theoretical content, as well as practice-oriented contributions and case studies exploring the latest technological research in timber are welcome. Proposals for workshops are also invited.
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Call for Participants
Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge
Monday 10th June 2013, 10am - Saturday 15th June 2013, 6pm
ANCB invites applications from practitioners and students to participate in an exciting workshop with regards to water as a factor in planning processes and the development of frameworks, resource management of water in the city and the house and the implications on design. A team of ca. 20 participants will join experts from the fields of architecture, design and engineering to develop design packages of proposals and processes, ideas, papers and sketches dealing with models and innovations.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Politecnico di Milano
29 April - 3 May 2013
For the third year students from the Bachelor in Architecture at the School of Architecture and Society of the Polytechnic of Milan are undertaking a Design Studio at ANCB to develop some issues taken from their thematic studio program dedicated to “Edgelands and urban agriculture”.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Cinema of the Future 2013
Cinematic Acupuncture. The Cinema as Social and Creative Catalyst
27 April 2013, 12:00pm
Cinema of the Future 2013 is the fourth event in this ANCB series. This year's focus is on how the cinema, as a local meeting spot, can act as a catalyst for cohesive social change, using the Rollberg Cinema in Berlin-Neukölln as a case study. The final presentation showcased the results of a week long design studio with the Universidad Europea de Madrid, led by Angel Luis Fernández, and the Dessau School of Architecture, led by Sam Chermayeff. The participants conducted both on-site research and design work at the ANCB studio space to develop an analysis of the urban context and propose an architectural/urban intervention for the Rollberg Cinema and its surroundings. The central focus of the studio was: how can architecture and design contribute to the survival of a local cinema in times of ever increasing competition and in doing so activate the surrounding neighbourhood?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Cinema of the Future 2013
Cinematic Acupuncture. The Cinema as Social and Creative Catalyst
19 April 2013
Cinema of the Future 2013 is the fourth event in this ANCB series. This year's focus is on how the cinema, as a local meeting spot, can act as a catalyst for cohesive social change, using the Rollberg Cinema in Berlin-Neukölln as a case study. The symposium presented an interdisciplinary dialogue about the role of the cinema as a social stimulator. Local agents joined specialists from different fields to debate the position of cinema in urban public space with regards to questions such as: How can the cinema reach out to a diverse range of inhabitants in a fast changing social landscape? How might the effects of a design intervention on the cinema radiate across the whole neighbourhood?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Innovative Werkstoffe für die Energiewende: Energy Materials in
Design und Architektur
13. März 2013, 18:00 Uhr
Ob Dünnschichtsolarzellen zur Anwendung in kleinformatigen Produkten oder Textilien, ob Piezomaterialien zur Rückgewinnung mechanischer Energie oder bio-adaptive Algenfassaden für die Energieproduktion in moderner Architektur: Der Beschluss zur Energiewende durch die Bundesregierung hat einen Innovationsschub ausgelöst, der die Energieproduktion kleinteiliger und dezentraler werden lässt. Im Zusammenhang mit dieser Umorientierung des
Energiemarktes wird das Thema energetischer Materialien und Technologien auch zusehends interessanter für Designer und Architekten.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Light Beyond the Atmosphere
22. Februar 2013, 18:30 Uhr
Light Beyond the Atmosphere ist die dritte Veranstaltung im Rahmen des ANCB Zumtobel Research: The City Lights Project. Dieses Projekt untersucht gegenwärtige Richtungen und zukünftige Anforderungen bezüglich des Lichts in Architektur und Stadt und fragt nach den Instrumenten, die diese neuen Anforderungen erfüllen können. Es stellt Ideen vor, die direkt in die Prozesse der Transformation unserer Umwelt eingreifen können. In der Debatten werden je zwei Positionen aus den Bereichen der Fotografie und der Bildherstellung sowie der Architektur gegenübergestellt.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
9 - Resilient and Democratic Futures: The Power of Design
Friday, 18 January 2013
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Sketch, Script, Score. Figures of Architectural Thinking
14 December 2012
WATCH ONLINE
Which role does drawing still have in the design process? Which are the most frequent sources of inspiration to influence the theoretical work that is behind the making of architecture? What relationships are there between meta-design materials, work processes and theoretical reflections? On the occasion of the release of two new titles of “Inspiration and Process in Architecture”, a book series devoted to the use of drawing in architecture, Moleskine and ANCB present a discussion between three featured architects: Wiel Arets, Peter Wilson and Cino Zucchi.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
The Presence of Light
7. Dezember 2012, 18:30 Uhr
Presence of Light ist die zweite Veranstaltung im Rahmen des ANCB Zumtobel Research The City Lights Project, das gegenwärtige Richtungen und zukünftige Anforderungen im Umgang mit Licht in der Stadt untersucht. Es fragt nach Instrumenten und Methoden, wie neue Ideen, Konzepte und innovative Anwendungen direkt in den transformativen Prozess der gebauten Umwelt eingreifen können. In der Diskussion werden zwei Positionen - aus dem Bereich der Fotografie und der Architektur - vorgestellt.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Migration and City
Thursday, 29 November
at Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
ANCB The Metropolitan Library continues its collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin, and is pleased to also collaborate with the British Council. This expert discussion explores a mutually supportive relationship between migration and the city by tracing the experience of the migrant; as they are drawn to a city, as they experience their new physical and social surroundings, and ultimately, as they become politically engaged for the future of that city.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Resilience and Democracy: Urban Regions Under Stress
9 - 18 Nov 2012
Under the leadership of Felix Madrazo (The Why Factory) and Marta Relats (Design As Politics), students from the TU Delft developed two 'tools' to assist spatial planning at regional scale. With Berlin-Brandenburg as case study, they proposed: a participation tool for generating and responding to a range of diverse development agendas; and a stress test tool for demonstrating the resilience of the built environment in the context of demographic, economic and climatic factors played out to their extremes.
The proposed 'tools' will be presented in summary at ANCB on January 18th 2013, prompting a discussion on the power and potential of spatial design (architecture, urban design, design) for spatial planning in general.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
msa / münster school of architecture
1 - 3 November 2012
“Das ‘serviced apartment’ ist eine Beherbergungsbetrieb in städtischer Umgebung, in dem die Unterbringung für längere Zeit erfolgt. Der Service reicht von sehr geringem Angebot bis zu einem hotelmäßigen Roomservice.”
(Definition des DEHOGA Bundesverbands)Die Fragestellung des Studios ist, inwieweit sich Le Corbusiers Wohntraum vom „Wohnen im Ozeanliner“ (in: “Précisions”, 1929) ins heutige Berlin, die Stadt des “Anderswo”, transferieren lässt.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universität Stuttgart
31 October - 4 November 2012
In dem Studio sollen die Möglichkeiten von Open-Source für die Architektur gemeinsam mit einem Experten auf diesem Gebiet ausgelotet werden. Aufgabe ist es, für Berlin ein Open Source House zu entwickeln.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
White Mountain. Chilean Contemporary Architecture - Lectures
Friday, 26 October 2012, 6:00PM
Prior to the exhibition opening "White Mountain. Chilean Contemporary Architecture" at Aedes Architecture Forum, the attending Chilean architects Alejandro Aravena, Yves Besançon, Mathias Klotz and Pablo Larrain will give a presentation of their work.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
22 - 26 October 2012
428.000. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Studie des Pestel-Instituts. 428.000 Wohnungen für Geringverdiener fehlen derzeit in Berlin. Pro Jahr verschwinden zusätzlich 12.500 Sozialwohnungen vom Markt. Was sich in Ballungszentren wie Hamburg, München und Köln schon lange bewahrheitet hat, kündigt sich auch in Berlin an. Einzelpersonen und Familien mit geringem Einkommen werden aus den Zentren der deutschen Großstädte verdrängt.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
InForming a Smarter Urban - Helsinki
Monday, 1 October 2012
Copyright: 'Nordkapp' by helsinki.urbanflow.io
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The City of Helsinki is engaged in a number of Smart City projects that explore the use of open data and digital technologies in urban development. One such project, the 2011 IBM Smarter Cities Challenge responded to the occasion of Helsinki as Word Capital of Design by expanding the engagement of design in this Smart City approach. Taking this question further, this public debate offered perspectives on the scope and implications for architecture and urban design of the growing trend towards Smart Cities.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
From Research to Design - Mobility
Thursday 13 September
ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory is pleased to continue its collaboration with the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on one of its core subjects, mobility. ANCB and the KOSMOS project of the Humboldt Universität are endeavours dedicated to exploring and advancing interdisciplinary enquiry. While ANCB is focused on the design disciplines with the city as its field of action, the KOSMOS project is focused on the natural sciences and the humanities relating to ‘knowledge and design'. We regard both endeavours as complimentary and mutually beneficial.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Architektur und Literatur - Lesung und Ausstellungseröffnung
7. September 2012, 18-19 Uhr
Blickwechsel ist ein Buchexperiment des Architekturbüros agps - Marc Angélil, Sarah Graham, Manuel Scholl, Reto Pfenninger und Hanspeter Oester mit Sitz in Zürich / Los Angeles. Es präsentiert siebzehn für das Werk von agps zentrale Bauten in den USA und der Schweiz. Fünf Autorinnen und Autoren folgen in ihren Kurzgeschichten und Essays der individuellen Spur des Gebäudes und reflektieren so die Bauten im Zustand ihrer Nutzung.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
MACHEN! 3
Alte Materialien neu verbaut:
Wie man alte Bautraditionen modernisieren kann
17. August 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Im dritten und letzten Projektgespräch der Reihe diskutierten Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture und Eike Roswag, Ziegert | Roswag | Seiler ihre Gewinnerprojekte.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
MACHEN! 2
Heizen mit Beton, Kühlen mit Lehm:
Wie man Materialien in ihrer ganzen Bandbreite nutzen kann
3. August 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Das zweite Projektgespräch bestritten Anna Heringer und Martin Rauch vom Team Heringer Rauch Nägele Waibel Naji und Frank Barkow von Barkow Leibinger zusammen mit Mike Schlaich.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
MACHEN! 1
Savoir Vivre: Wie man die Stadt so (um-)baut, dass sie verschiedene Lebensstile ermöglicht
13. Juli 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Die Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction zeichnet seit 2004 Architekturprojekte aus, die Nachhaltigkeit nicht als technologisches Sahnehäubchen verstehen, sondern einen intelligenten Gestaltungsansatz zur Entwurfsgrundlage machen. Ergänzend zur Ausstellung MACHEN! Die deutschen Gewinner der Holcim Awards 2011 / 2012 im Aedes Architekturforum fanden drei Diskussionsveranstaltungen im ANCB statt, in denen die Preisträger ihre Projekte vorstellten und über deren aktuellen Entwicklungsstand berichteten.vor der Ausstellungseröffnung.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
BMW Guggenheim LAB
The BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin is offering a continuous programme from June 15th to July 29th. It is located next to ANCB at the Pfefferberg. The BMW Guggenheim Lab is presented in cooperation with ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory. Learn more at bmwguggenheimlab.org.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
University of Kentucky, School of Design
30 May - 27 July 2012
Berlin is a city that resides in a perpetual state of transformation resulting in unique spatial conditions. Through the use of mapping as a projective design tool, we seek new opportunities for the synthesis of the peculiarities of small-scale internal spaces, such as the Berliner Zimmer, and the larger network of Berlin’s public spatial occupancies to reconsider inhabitation of the street.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Urban PlayScapes: Initiating Encounter in the Fragmented City
22 May 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
A celebration of the installation in Berlin of the BMW Guggenheim Lab designed by Atelier Bow-Wow. The BMW Guggenheim Lab is presented in cooperation with ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory.
In this era of urban migration, the culturally diverse city is becoming a fragmented city. Gaps are growing between low- and high-income areas, between immigrants and ‘natives’, and even between globally connected individuals and their host city.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau
14-18 May 2012
Following the 10 critical issues facing cities identified by ANCB the 'Studio XY' is dealing with the transformation capabilities of grown urban structure. How to modify quarters to ‘get ready' for the needs of a modern urban life?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Making DESIGN AND POLITICS
The Concluding Debate
25 April 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Reflecting on what was learned in the ANCB 2011 series Design and Politics: The Next Phase, this 8th debate outlined alternative guiding concepts for making our urban environment.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Politecnico di Milano
23-30 April 2012
The theme of the studio combines two topics that are emerging as important issues of the contemporary urban condition and urban economy: edgelands, spaces between the urban and the rural which don’t have a fixed destination and shape, and urban agriculture, an activity integrated into - and interacting with - the urban economic and ecological system. The emerging of themes, focused on a new consideration of the role of the spaces in-between the urban and the rural, and on the relationship of city and agriculture or of production and consumption and leisure, have drawn the attention of planning and urban and landscape design to a specific typology of “urban agriculture”, which plays economic, spatial, ecological and social roles.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Cities and Change and Challenge
18 April 2012, 7.30pm
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HolzWerkHolz Design Studio
April 2 - 13, 2012
In diesem Design Studio, das im Rahmen der Werkschau HolzWerkHolz des Architekturbüros Kaden Klingbeil im Aedes Architekturforum stattfindet, beschäftigen sich 30 Studenten zwei Wochen lang mit dem Thema mehrgeschossiger Holzbau in der Innenstadt von Berlin anhand eines Fallbeispiels in Berlin-Neukölln.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Bodies of Light
March 16, 2012
Bodies of Light is the first of four events within the ANCB Zumtobel Research entitled The City Lights Project. It seeks to explore current directions and future requirements regarding the city's light, while asking for the instruments to answer these - ideas that can engage directly in the transformative process of the built environment.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Cinema of the Future 2012
New Strategies for a Neighbourhood Cinema.
The Eiszeit Arthouse Cinema in Kreuzberg as case study
University of Pennsylvania
Technical University Braunschweig
2-10 March 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE!
By nature of the programme, cinemas are introverted spaces. What kind of atmosphere can this space have and how can this form the cinema experience? Transitional spaces can also play an important role, for example as a meeting space. What other qualities are important? Finally, the cinema is imbedded in the surrounding city fabric. How can a cinema affect the urban context and visa-versa? What issues can play a role in creating positive synergies?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Cinema of the Future 2012
New Strategies for a Neighbourhood Cinema.
The Eiszeit Arthouse Cinema in Kreuzberg as case study
2 March 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Berlin is Germany's cinema capital with its large variety of different programmes and events, in particular the International Film Festival Berlin. Yet there are numerous challenges facing the city's cinema landscape today. The ANCB-Series Cinema of the Future aims at initiating a continuous debate on the subject of cinema in public urban space. At the symposium, local agents joined specialists from different fields to debate the positioning of cinema in urban public space with regard to questions such as: How can an independent cinema survive in a climate of ever-growing competition both financially and in terms of programmatic profile? Can a cinema activate a neighbourhood and integrate different uses and users? How can the cinema reach out to the fast changing social landscape of Kreuzberg when inhabitants feel often threatened by urban upgrading measures?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
7 - Re-city, the ‘Total Makeover’
17 February 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The 7th and final event in our 2011 series Design and Politics: The Next Phase, this debate focuses on the existing city, one of the biggest challenges for any city-maker, be they an architect, politician, developer or other. It is about the transformation of the existing and the way in which new collaborations emerge out of this transformative task.
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Universidad Europea de Madrid
February 13-18, 2012
The changes which contemporary cities face result from an evolving paradigm of the societies that inhabit them. We shall try to transform the existing pavilion on Teutoburger Platz gardens into a new public space for "welfare”. The role played by such content will be active at the suggestion of a new social dimension. Students should propose both, the new programme for the existing pavilion as well as the transformation of all or parts of its current design.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Profiling the European City - Notes from Cologne and Copenhagen
February 3, 2012, 4.30pm
Cultural and urban planning strategies for the European City of tomorrow will be presented and discussed through case-studies concepts and projects from Cologne and Copenhagen.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Call for Interns for the BMW Guggenheim Lab Project in Berlin
ANCB seeks part-time interns!
BMW Guggenheim Lab New York
Photos: Kristopher McKay © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
As the main collaborating partner, ANCB is pleased to offer these internships.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
6 - Moving Cities, Meaning and Mobility
20 January 2012
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Moving Cities, Meaning and Mobility is the 6th of seven podium discussions in the 2011 series Design and Politics: The Next Phase. It addresses the complexity and interdependency between urban development, infrastructure, social and physical networks and the meaning of place, system and movement for the validation of the human capacity to economise through cityness.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Thomas Sieverts and Lars Lerup: Lacunas - The Middle Landscape
January 23, 2012, 6.00pm
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE NOW! Routinely dismissed as mere sprawl, the middle landscape is the black hole of recent urbanism, absorbing human energy and resources but seldom revealing the principles of its operation. Besides the recent affirmation for the dense city under the auspice of sustainability, the reality confronts us with a rather complex conurbation and a weak set of planning instruments.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
REM KOOLHAAS - PETER SLOTERDIJK
29 November 2011
The video recording of the debate between Rem Koolhaas and Peter Sloterdijk moderated by Stephan Trüby is now available. We would like to thank Rem Koolhaas, Peter Sloterdijk and Stephan Trüby for an inspiring debate and the Dutch Embassy for hosting the event.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
5 - 75-90-3: Who is Our City?
25 November 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The 5th of seven podium discussions in this series with the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, this event is a co-operation with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and focuses on the potential that increasing urbanisation brings for the collective as well as the individual in this ‘stacked’ and mixed city and what this means for politics, urban planning and design.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Die Großfassade aus PET-Flaschen des EcoArk Pavillon in Taipeh
23. November 2011
Plastikflaschen prägen unsere Welt eindrücklich, mit den bekannten negativen
Umweltkonsequenzen. Wenn es nach dem taiwanischen Architekten Arthur Huang geht, hat das Material aber durchaus das Potenzial, einen nachhaltigeren Beitrag zu leisten. Er realisierte er auf der internationalen Gartenschau in Taiwan den “EcoArk Pavilion”, ein Ausstellungspavillon, dessen von ihm entwickelte "Pollibrick-" Fassade komplett aus rezyklierten PET-Flaschen besteht. Die National Geographic Dokumentation 'Megastructures EcoArk' zeigt die Entwicklung der Idee und über Technologie, Nachhaltigkeit und die Potenziale des Materials diskutieren im Anschluss Hartmut Gaßne, Miniwiz und Wolfram Putz, GRAFT unter der Moderation des Architekturkritikers und Verlegers Andreas Ruby.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
4 - Learning to Provoke
21 October 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The fourth of 7 podium discussions in the 2011 series Design and Politics: the next phase. It explores a new role for architecture, as a critical instrument in a more politically engaged, pro-active and provocative alternative to ‘standard’ urban planning approaches.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Diego Portales / Santiago de Chile
September 19 - 30, 2011
Berlin has a voluminous presence of water both surrounding the city and crossing it. Despite this, Berlin's relationship with the water is not clear, and historically the Spree doesn’t seem to have the leading role as public space that the rivers in Cologne, Paris and London have. The workshop explores the net of lakes, channels and rivers in Berlin with the objective to develop projects that elucidate the relationship between the city and its waterfronts. The assignment is to scan these sites, detect significant points, and through permanent or temporary interventions, show them and propose significant alterations using using video as a tool.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
3 - Climate Changing our Cities: 'Cool', or Wet and Warm?
9 September 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The third in a series of seven thematic debates taking place in 2011 / 2012. 'Design and Politics: The next Phase' was initiated by ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory in collaboration with Henk Ovink, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
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Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
August 22 – September 12, 2011
The workshop explores how rivers have shaped our civilization, and how we, in turn, have shaped them. It considers rivers in their ecological and economic functions as well as their role in the mythological narrative of humankind. Specifically, the studio considers our various relationships with waterways, be they symbiotic, parasitic, competitive, dominant or servile, challenging students to propose new, more sustainable strategies for living with our rivers.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
2 - On the Surface of Architecture?
28 July 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
The second in a series of seven thematic debates taking place in 2011 / 2012.'Design and Politics: The next Phase' was initiated by ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory in collaboration with Henk Ovink, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Pratt Institute, New York
July 18 - August 5, 2011
To study the history of Tempelhof Airport is to trace decisive moments in German and Berlin history: From its use as an experimental airfield in the 19th century, through the dramatic events during the 1948–49 airlift, to the large-scale international landscape and urban design competition held in 2009, the “Tempelhofer Feld” reflects glory and abyss of German ingenuity and political stance.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Cinema of the Future 2011
Back to the Future?
Seminal Concepts for the Cinema in the City with the new ZooPalast as Example
15 July 2011
On the occasion of the Aedes exhibition opening 'Cinema of the Future. Cinema and Urban Public Space', this podium discussion is another event in the ANCB series 'Cinema of the Future' that is intended to stimulate an interdisciplinary dialogue among experts of various fields and to be the starting point to a continuous debate on a new positioning of cinema in urban public space beyond the ubiquitous discussion of the digitalisation of cinema technology.
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Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
July 13 - July 23, 2011
Imagine a circular band of civic domains around the inner city of Berlin. A circular campus consisting of academic institutions, housing, private companies, and parks. Investigating the Berlin S-Bahn-Ring means being concerned with the urban space of the city centre and of the city edge. If we rethink the chain of voids along the Berlin S-Bahn-Ring, can we develop new prototypical worklife models for the European City?
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Universidad Iberoamericana / Universidad de Las Americas
July 4 - July 25, 2011
As of 2011 the relationship between public spaces and private interests in the public realm is under fierce debate on many levels of society and in many German cities. Especially in Berlin the contested spaces are numerous, the most symbolic being the incomplete Mauerpark-projekt on the former frontline of the cold-war era.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
City and Region: Learning from Berlin, Melbourne and Limerick
17 June 2011 (3.30pm - 6.00pm)
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Creative, Informal, Temporary, Berlin
17 June 2011 (10am-12pm)
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SAUL Intelligence Unit 2011
University of Limerick
10 - 16 June 2011
Researching Ireland's 'Living Space'
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Politecnico di Milano
29 May – 5 June, 2011
Urban growth has marginalised agriculture in the metropolitan context. Recently, however, the attention of planning and urban and landscape design has been drawn to the specific typology of “urban agriculture” and it economic, spatial, ecological and social roles – especially in Berlin with its abundance of open space. This workshop aims at exploring a new way to deal with uncertain spaces, using agriculture as a means to rehabilitate urban landscape. The study area is the Landschaftspark Herzberge.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Who Activates Cultural Space Today? A Seoul - Berlin Dialogue
May 20th 2011, 5pm - 6.15pm
On the occasion of the opening of our exhibition on renowned Korean architect and cultural figurehead Kim Swoo Geun (1931-1986), and in the presence of his daughter, Aedes celebrates the remarkable cultural commitment of this individual and asks who his present-day equivalents might be, in Seoul and in Berlin - the former recognised for its deep yet dynamic cultural formations and the latter as one of the world’s hothouses for emerging culture in all fields? How is culture thought of, defined and activated today? By whom and using which mechanisms? What is its infrastructure, its political role and its local significance?
The short career of Kim Swoo Geun spanned three political regimes and consequently three distinct periods of building projects manifesting the ideologies of each of these regimes. Kim Swoo Geun built many of these major projects, becoming the most influential 20th century architect in Korea. His premature death left behind another equally influential legacy as tireless advocate, connoisseur and patron of Korean arts, both traditional and avant-garde, whose activities laid the foundation stones for the rich and complex culture of Korea today.
This symposium will be in English only.
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My Knowledge Space: A New Public Library Prototype for the 21st Century - the New Berlin Library as Prototype
14 May 2011, 9am - 6pm
The City of Berlin is considering to build the new Berlin Library on the former Tempelhof airport field (now Tempelhofer Freiheit). Before the competition and planning phase kicks off, ANCB in collaboration with the Central and Regional Library Berlin want to explore the roles, tasks and functions of the public library of the 21st century as well as the demands it has to meet.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Hochschule Lausitz, Hochschule Nysa, Politechnika Łódzka, Oberstufenzentrum Elbe-Elster
4-8 April, 2011
Berlin - Oberschöneweide is located at the northern border of the river Spree. In the past, the area went through vital functional and atmospheric transformations. Today the area is again in a remarkable transformation process. New programmes like the University of Applied Sciences Berlin settled here. One of the most fascinating building ensembles on this site will be subject of this workshop: The electric power transformation substation Oberspree. Based on the new programmatic requirements of the site, the participants will develop spatial concepts and sensitive atmospheric ideas.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Liveable Cities -
Architecture Agendas in Singapore and Germany
28 March 2011, 5pm - 7pm
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More than green! - The added value of Cradle to Cradle in Architecture and Urban Planning
March 9, 2011, 7pm
William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer, founding principal of William McDonough + Partners Architecture and Community Design, Virgina, USA. He is also the cofounder and principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), which employs a comprehensive Cradle to Cradle design protocol to chemical benchmarking, supply-chain integration, energy and materials assessment, clean-production qualification, and sustainability issue management and optimization.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Die Dynamik des Wandels
3. März 2011
Seit 30 Jahren gibt es den „Alternativen Nobelpreis“. Er unterstützt Projekte, die Wandel schaffen, Menschen und Gruppen, die sich nicht mit Bestehendem zufrieden geben, die aufrütteln aber auch praktisch verändern. Jacob von Uexküll wird die Idee des „Alternativen Nobelpreises“ vorstellen und im Gespräch mit Monika Griefahn (niedersächsische Umweltministerin a.D.) beleuchten, wie die „Vorbilder“ und „Projekte der Hoffnung“ die Gesellschaft verändern und wie auch das Konzept von Cradle to Cradle® zur Dynamik des Wandels beiträgt.
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Cinema of the Future 2011
Can We? Make More Than A Cinema!
The Why Factory, TU Delft
18-24 February 2011
In 2010, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival, Aedes Network Campus Berlin realised a successful international architecture workshop on the cinema of the future and its role in urban public space, thereby achieving a range of fascinating architectural visions and an accompanying discussion around new architectural, urban and social dimensions for the cinema typology. This year's workshop is focussing on envisioning the design and functional revitalisation of the arthouse cinema typology, by facilitating its capacity to facilitate an extremely complex set of demands.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
TouchHouse. Smart Living - Communicating Surfaces
February 3-6, 2011
The energy efficiency of residential and office buildings as well as of entire cities can be significantly increased by means of intelligent and networked technologies. Man enters a new kind of interaction with the built environment here. Digital building control, dynamic spaces and the accompanying challenges for architects, developers and decision-makers are not only a question of technical feasibility and architectural innovative potential. They concern basic human behavioural patterns. Acquired behaviour, needs and wishes as well as social influences determine our usage of space, the communication between man and architecture, the awareness of energy efficient action – and possibly hinder the acceptance of networked and self-regulating technologies. Thus, it is the interface between the built environment and the user – the communication with the surface – that often hampers the full use of energy efficient building and planning’s potential. So, how can systems be developed that allow for an intuitive handling and an
adaptation of behaviour?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Design and Politics: the next phase
1 - Cradle to Cradle: Creative and Effective Urbanism
27 January 2011
VIDEO RECORDING ONLINE
Opening event in a series of seven thematic debates taking place in 2011 / 2012. 'Design and Politics: the next phase' was initiated by ANCB The Metroplitan Laboratory in collaboration with Henk Ovink, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Symposium mit begleitender Ausstellung
Symposium: Freitag, 14. Januar 2011, 17–20.30 Uhr
Ausstellung: 15. - 16. Januar, 13 - 17 Uhr
Die Werkschau gibt einen Einblick in die junge Architekturszene in Katalonien ausgewählt von den Architekten Pere Buil (1973), Carlos Cámara (1980) und Joan Vitòria (1973). Gezeigt werden die Werke von 10 Büros, deren Architekten zwischen 30 und 40 Jahre alt sind.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
PBSA - Peter Behrens School of Architecture Düsseldorf
22-30 October, 2010
The Reading Gardens
The starting point of "Reading Gardens: Spaces of Knowledge and Learning" is the City of Berlin’s intention to build a new Central Public Library for Berlin (ZLB) on the edge of Tempelhof Field (former Templehof airport). In the context of an international renaissance in public library design, a one semester master class of the PBSA will examine the future of 'the preservation of knowledge and our rituals of accessing information'.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
18-22 October, 2010
The Anatomy of Creative Quarters II
Architecture is a living system, creativity also. It happens spontaneously, with unknown outcome, or through a process using established tools aiming at a particular result envisaged by real estate developers. Anatomy, a term originally used in medicine meaning to separate, to cut open, will be transferred to architectural design and design thinking.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Weniger ist Zukunft
9. Oktober 2010
Schrumpfung ist ein globales Phänomen. Die IBA-Pioniere aus Sachsen-Anhalt haben sich den Herausforderungen in den vergangenen acht Jahren gestellt. Nach einer IBA-Bilanz wagt die Veranstaltung einen Blick in die Zukunft. Klimawandel, Klimaschutz und das damit einhergehende Ende der Nutzung fossiler Energien werden zu massiven Veränderungen der Siedlungsformen und unseres Lebensstils führen. Weitblick, Kreativität und Mut zum Experiment werden auch weiterhin gefragt sein. Zum Abschluss der IBA diskutieren internationale Experten auf einem Symposium Projekte und Prozesse der IBA Stadtumbau 2010, um Impulse für innovative Perspektiven zu geben.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
DIA Dessau
7-13 October 2010
Work-Wall at Pfefferberg
Office space has gone through radical change in the last century ranging from clusters of isolated cubicles to so called office landscapes. While the organization of a traditional corporation was based on the factory model of hierarchical workflow, today’s workspace is modeled around environments that allow for interaction, like the scientific lab or the design studio. Our workshop will take the discussion of the office environment to a new level by abandoning the traditional preoccupation with the office plan in order to concentrate on the office section.
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University of Limerick, Ireland
2-8 October, 2010
Habour
This study trip based at ANCB is an intensive production week focussing on the future potential of Tempelhof. It is intended to offer a valuable opportunity to students to further reinforce their thesis work to date on a large scale.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Tsunami Trace File: A Documentary by Mathias Klotz and Carlos Perez, Chile 2010
September 20, 2010, 7.30pm
The documentary, which was selected for the Chilean Pavilion at this year's Biennale in Venice, monitors the traces of debris and destruction left by the 2010 tsunami in Chile. The visual material was taken on a trip to the affected area a month after the incident and forms the main longitudinal axis of this assembly trip. Dramatically different from the stridency of the news coverage that lasted for weeks and formed Chile's reality of the disaster, the film's capture and editing - without resorting to testimony - had the purpose of constructing a "trace file" of the tsunami, including silence. The devastation and abandonment function as eloquent signs of the disaster's magnitude. Designed to be played on loop, the film, though only twenty minutes long, seems virtually infinite in order to cause the evocation of the destructive event and its incalculability through an endless sequel of ruins and debris.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Nagoya City University and HTWK Leipzig
19-25 September, 2010
Reset: The anatomy of Creative Quarters
With the “Raise of the creative class” Richard Florida detects the rise of a new social class - including scientists, engineers, architects, educators, writers, artists, entertainers, etc. - whose economic function is to create new ideas, new technology, and new creative content. This group shares common characteristics, such as creativity, individuality, diversity, and merit and profoundly influences work and lifestyle issues.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
European University Madrid
13-19 September 2010
Seeing the Mediterranean in Berlin
Where are the limits of the Mediterranean? Understanding the Mediterranean like a common space to all the cultures that share it, today more than ever, elevates it as a centre of shared identity. From this great emptiness, forces are radiated. The social, political and econommic circumstances at global level allow for strong defining relations in different layers- history, legend, myths, culture, economy, politics and society. These relations are in constant change and make new conditions for architecture and urban design.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
École Speciale d'Architecture
13-17 September 2010
Centre for Humanitarian Affairs
The task for this semester is to develop a Centre for Humanitarian Affairs. It will be located on a site where the french company Total is currently developing their german headquarter in form of a tower building. The building is located directly to the north of Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof train station where a 40-hectare development area known as the Europacity Quarter is currently under development.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Architectural Association School of Architecture
3-12 September, 2010
AA Berlin Laboratory – Experiments in Dwelling
Post-wall Berlin has emerged as a major player in contemporary cultural production. As a laboratory of lifestyles and modes of production, it attracts an influential community of highly creative people from around the globe. The AA Berlin Laboratory continues to explores the role of experimentation and interdisciplinary ways of working, harvesting this exceptional energy. Now in its second year, this intense workshop explores tools and systems of experimentation, focusing on the idea of dwelling.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Re-act Lab: São Paulo Architecture Experiment
August 12-22, 2010
The ANCB series Re-act Lab has a potential-focused rather than problem-focused agenda. It confronts the particular challenges of cities or regions throughout the world by facilitating transdisciplinary enquiry into appropriate and responsible actions in architecture and urbanism. This 10-day Re-act Lab research studio will introduce a group of advanced students from across the world to the realities of Brazilian cities and provide the wider public with internal and external perspectives on these.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2-22 August, 2010
Latent Urbanism | Berlin
When Conrad Schumann left his post guarding the Berlin Wall, choosing instead to throw down his rifle and make a leap for Western liberty, he became more than just a symbol of Cold War defection: he became the first Latent Urbanist. Seizing opportunity in an increasingly inhospitable city, he redefined the way we engage with our urban environments. He demonstrated how small, carefully considered action, enacted where the fabric of our cities are most fragile can have the most potent consequences.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
University of Limerick
25 July - 11 August, 2010
SNN
While looking out from Shannon airport terminal it seems strange that we seldom look upon airports in the way we did and sometimes still do, as harbours, connected as they are to distant places, while being places in themselves, intimately connected to and impacting upon their immediate environment.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Pratt Institute, New York
3 July - 1 August, 2010
Unity and Freedom Memorial Germany
On 9 November 2007, the German parliament, the Bundestag, decided that the Federal Republic of Germany would erect a Memorial to Freedom and Unity in remembrance of the peaceful revolution in the autumn of 1989 and the reinstatement of Germany's national unity.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
5-23 July, 2010
Imaginal Cities: Kreuzberg's Spree waterfront
With Form rather than Program as the main tool for the understanding and intervening in the existing condition, this unit is essentially an investigation of Form through Form. The testing round for this investigation is located (in order to also engage the broader ANCB discussion on Demarcations)on the River Spree Waterfront in Kreuzberg, specifically on an inner island neighbour to Baddenschiff. The projects seek to transform this space into cultural endeavor(s) and in doing so find how architecture can engage with local discourse.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
The Why Factory, TU Delft
18-29 April 2010
The Future of the Past
This unit by The Why Factory, TU Delft aims to brainstorm possible future scenarios in a complex urban setting using innovative representation means. Berlin provides a multilayered fabric which reveals its historic depth but provides flexibility for urban innovation.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Zurich University of the Arts
15-18 April 2010
What would a culture of political representation look like in Design?
Design2context, Institute for Design Research, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. Postgraduate students from the Design Cultures (MAS) programme take part in a transdisciplinary studio led by Rudi Baur (Graphic Design), Vera Kockot (Cultural and Visual Studies) and Clemens Bellut (Philosophy). The working title of the studio is " What would a culture of political representation look like in Design?"
The studio takes place in the context of a parallel internal ZHdK research colloquium with guest lectures by Simona Mahrenholz (Berlin), Julia Vogel (Berlin) and Sophie Prinz (Berlin).
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Berlage Institute
28 March - 2 April 2010
1-9 November 2009
Metropolitan Imprints Berlin: New Workspace Architecture in Hybrid Environments
What does it mean to work in cities today? This research studio analyses the contemporary city’s daily work-life conditions and considers a re-organization as a means of manifesting the future city.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
École Spéciale d'Architecture
19 - 24 March 2010
The Wriez
Berlin’s reputation as one of the most creative cities in the world has resulted in a recent boom of 'creatives' moving into the city from all over the world. This in turn is triggering the emergence of new developments in the city, much as German reunification triggered a development boom in the '90s. These new developments are making significant changes to their urban contexts and are impacting massively on the demographic character of each district.
This task of this unit is to explore how the original and distinctive character of the area around the former Wriezener train station can to be retained in the architecture of urban design of once such new development-a prototypical 'cultural station' for Berlin’s creative and experimental minds, a place to meet and join groups for sport, events and public discussions.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Cinema of the Future 2010
Berlin Motion
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
13-20 February 2010
This Design Studio coincides with the 60th birthday of the Berlinale. It explores the notions of registration, representation and transformation of architectural space through motion media such as film/video and digital animation techniques.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
École Spéciale d'Architecture
17 - 20 September 2009
Berlin Walls
The history of the Berlin Wall, its demolition and consequent developments prompt us to take a closer look at Berlin's less noticed urban borders. Borders created by big roads, railway lines, waterways as well as specific sites like the Zoo and the government area. In the Tiergarten area (West City) we find a cluster of borders dividing areas of significant spatial and social diversity. This raises the question as to which of these should be kept, removed or bridged.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Architectural Association School of Architecture
4-12 September 2009
AA Berlin Laboratory
AA Berlin Laboratory is an intensive workshop that explores modes of creative production and their manifestations in the city. Using Berlin as a field for investigation and intervention, it aims to trace the complex relationship between cultural production and the city. The role of experimentation is at the core of this inquiry.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Anahuac & Universidad Iberoamericana
13 - 31 July 2009
Imaginal Cities
This studio investigated issues of demarcation using Pfefferberg's old underground beer factory as a testing ground. The studio stemmed from a critical approach to the existing space, adopting abstract analytical tools for design exploration.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Universidad Europea de Madrid
15 - 28 June 2009
Liquid Life
Berlin's urban setting is seen as an open field where relationships amongst communities can be understood as a continuous process. The transformation from solid to liquid modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting. Adopting four distinct media, Students and professors from UEM developed proposals for urban reconfiguration along the River Spree in the socio-economically charged context of Berlin's Kreuzberg.
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UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
The Why Factory (T?F), TU-Delft
17 - 23 May 2009
2059, 50 years after the crisis
This studio was constructed around a series of realities brought about by the current financial crisis. The studio aimed at debating and visualising new possibilities that the crisis might open to the city of Berlin, as well as to the discipline of architecture itself. How to use the crisis as a momentum for change?
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Global Developments and Academic Networks:
EDUCATING THE GLOBAL ARCHITECT
New Policies of Space in Times of Globalization
18. - 19. April 2009
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PUBLIC DEBATE
Symposium/Smart Talk
"SMART CITY: THE NEXT GENERATION", Focus Southeast Asia
Saturday 8th June - Sunday 9th June 2013
NEWS
Call for Papers
Transmaterial Aesthetics: Experiments with Timber in Architecture and Technology
International Symposium at ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory
Tuesday 1st October - Wednesday 2nd October 2013
NEWS
Call for Participants
Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge
Monday 10th June 2013, 10am - Saturday 15th June 2013, 6pm
UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Politecnico di Milano
29 April - 3 May 2013
UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Cinema of the Future 2013
Cinematic Acupuncture. The Cinema as Social and Creative Catalyst
27 April 2013, 12:00pm
all Events
Symposium/Smart Talk
"SMART CITY: THE NEXT GENERATION", Focus Southeast Asia
Saturday 8th June - Sunday 9th June 2013
NEWS
Call for Papers
Transmaterial Aesthetics: Experiments with Timber in Architecture and Technology
International Symposium at ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory
Tuesday 1st October - Wednesday 2nd October 2013
NEWS
Call for Participants
Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge
Monday 10th June 2013, 10am - Saturday 15th June 2013, 6pm
UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Politecnico di Milano
29 April - 3 May 2013
UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO
Cinema of the Future 2013
Cinematic Acupuncture. The Cinema as Social and Creative Catalyst
27 April 2013, 12:00pm
all Events