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Studio with c/o now's Andrijana Ivanda (teaching assignment) alongside Veljko Markovic and David Baumer in winter semester 2020/21 at TU Berlin - Habitat Unit X CUD
- year
- 2020 - 2021
- Location
- Technische Universität Berlin, #berlinbrandenburg, BerlinBrandenburg, BerlinBrandenburg, Deutschland
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Fig.___"THE CARBON VALLEY: The Glacial Valley as a Carbon Infrastructure" by Sasha Amaya, Lisa Biermann, Adi Cohen, Yagmur Durak, Liujun Chen, Anna Markušina, Jonas Möller, Azada Taheri
In this project we grapple with confronting the goal of carbon neutrality in the Berlin Brandenburg region (hereafter BB) by 2040. In doing so, we focus our attention on the glacial valley as a site of intense carbon interactions, and work toward a contrast scenario framework, which envisions a two-decade long radical transformation of our material and contextual surrounds. We ask ourselves: How might the metabolisms of forests and those of the urban interact in 2040? Can a circular carbon cycle be designed in our region? And, if so, which stakeholders might it affect, and how might such a shift look and feel?
Our method is comprised of four main steps.
We forecast from current trends to understand the vulnerabilities and potential crises in the region, as well as demographic, political, and climaterelated trends.
Second, we then — in the framework of creating a contrast scenario — imagine a strikingly different future than current forecasts would portend.
Third, we take the conditions of our 2040 speculation seriously, and backcast to understand what kind of changes we need to enact, and under which principles we need to work, in order to reach our goal. Fourth, applying these principles, we create design proposals for three specific sites which allow us to investigate
the depth and complexity of the region, and suggest ways to move toward our vision of BB 2040.
Sasha Amaya, Lisa Biermann, Adi Cohen, Yagmur Durak, Liujun Chen, Anna Markušina, Jonas Möller, Azada Taheri
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Fig.___"THE CARBON VALLEY: The Glacial Valley as a Carbon Infrastructure" by Sasha Amaya, Lisa Biermann, Adi Cohen, Yagmur Durak, Liujun Chen, Anna Markušina, Jonas Möller, Azada Taheri
>>> Click here to see the video presentation <<<
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Fig.___"THE CARBON VALLEY: The Glacial Valley as a Carbon Infrastructure" by Sasha Amaya, Lisa Biermann, Adi Cohen, Yagmur Durak, Liujun Chen, Anna Markušina, Jonas Möller, Azada Taheri
>>> Click here to read the presentation PDF <<<
Sasha Amaya, Lisa Biermann, Adi Cohen, Yagmur Durak, Liujun Chen, Anna Markušina, Jonas Möller, Azada Taheri
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Fig.___"BB4+ STRESSTEST: Critical visions for a region facing climate pressure" by Ziwei Dong, David Freeman, Luzie Michaels, Pascal Müller, Arina Rahma, Huizi Zhu
This is BB4+ : Stresstest!
a project that is generally interested in widening our imagination of a not-so-unlikely and not-so-far-away future
for the region of Berlin-Brandenburg in the year 2050.
This work projects certain imageries along a rather messy trajectory into a critical future - a trajectory that, so it seems,
is far closer to our reality than political statements and jointly coordinated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It is a very personal but unromantic answer to the question of how we can articulate disruption and crises, within an ever-expanding system supposed to run smoothly. It is our way of imagining how Berlin-Brandenburg will respond to climate change as an adaptive but foremost human system.
Ziwei Dong, David Freeman, Luzie Michaels, Pascal Müller, Arina Rahma, Huizi Zhu
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Fig.___"BB4+ STRESSTEST: Critical visions for a region facing climate pressure" by Ziwei Dong, David Freeman, Luzie Michaels, Pascal Müller, Arina Rahma, Huizi Zhu
>>> Click here to see the video presentation <<<
Ziwei Dong, David Freeman, Luzie Michaels, Pascal Müller, Arina Rahma, Huizi Zhu
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Fig.___"BB4+ STRESSTEST: Critical visions for a region facing climate pressure" by Ziwei Dong, David Freeman, Luzie Michaels, Pascal Müller, Arina Rahma, Huizi Zhu
>>> Click here to read the presentation PDF
Ziwei Dong, David Freeman, Luzie Michaels, Pascal Müller, Arina Rahma, Huizi Zhu
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Fig.___"CONNECTING FRAGMENTS: Public Spaces as the Key Infrastructure to Healthy BB 2040" by Julian Hees, Sarah Friedel, Asli Aydin, David Svensson, Saskia Hirtz, Diana Chvirova, Laurenz Blaser
The desire for a healthy city life has always shaped the way cities are perceived and transformed.
The installation of a comprehensive sewer system in the 1870s in Berlin in order to bring cholera under control, Sanatoriums against Tuberculosis like Beelitz Heilstätten, and the rise of garden cities around Berlin as a reaction to the unhealthy tenement living in the early 20th century- these are just few examples of health issues having direct influence on and shaping our built environment.
Through industrialization, Berlin experienced unprecedented growth and development, rendering the city louder, denser and more polluted within a few decades. Since then, the notion of the bustling, hectic, overcrowded and overloading city has been widely associated with the stress it causes to its inhabitants.
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed urban life dramatically. Public life has been shutdown. People are requested to stay at home. Berlin has become a desert, empty, silent, aenestizised. The isolation policy, although successful in pushing back the virus, is taking its toll in other ways. Fatigue, loneliness, depression and anxiety are rising.
Inequality between the rich and the poor is growing. Economic insecurity and restricted housing conditions increase the stress.
Julian Hees, Sarah Friedel, Asli Aydin, David Svensson, Saskia Hirtz, Diana Chvirova, Laurenz Blaser
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Fig.___"CONNECTING FRAGMENTS: Public Spaces as the Key Infrastructure to Healthy BB 2040" by Julian Hees, Sarah Friedel, Asli Aydin, David Svensson, Saskia Hirtz, Diana Chvirova, Laurenz Blaser
>>> Click here to see the video presentation
Julian Hees, Sarah Friedel, Asli Aydin, David Svensson, Saskia Hirtz, Diana Chvirova, Laurenz Blaser
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Fig.___"CONNECTING FRAGMENTS: Public Spaces as the Key Infrastructure to Healthy BB 2040" by Julian Hees, Sarah Friedel, Asli Aydin, David Svensson, Saskia Hirtz, Diana Chvirova, Laurenz Blaser
>>> Click here to read the presentation PDF
Julian Hees, Sarah Friedel, Asli Aydin, David Svensson, Saskia Hirtz, Diana Chvirova, Laurenz Blaser
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Fig.___Berlin Brandenburg 2040: IN TOUCH
course description
Teaching
Introductory presentation: Thursday 29.10.2020 | 14:00 – 16:00 physical (Forum)/online
The first semester of the Urban Design Studio will investigate the potential of infrastructure networks to connect the city‘s cores with its hinterland and beyond – case in point Berlin and Bran- denburg. Infrastructures both create connections and establish territories, but also cut and disrupt landscapes.
Travelling to sites and surveying locations, we will investigate current and future infrastructures as well as infrastructures that have become obsolete and remain as ruins in the metropolitan landscape. Trailing urban transformations occurring along the in- tersections of various infrastructures, we will endeavor to inves- tigate their pasts, qualify the present and analyze the potential of the intersections in order to speculate on their roles in the future.
Our present, shaped by the global pandemic or climate change induced droughts and heat waves, brings the grave challenges to an already highly complex urban system to the fore. In order to make a future living in Berlin-Brandenburg inclusive, equitable and ecologically sustainable – values we hold dear – will require a number of vital systemic changes and infrastructural turns.
Students will work in interdisciplinary groups exploring a varie- ty of infrastructure along specific routes. We will use speculative scenario building and for- and back-casting techniques to explore what changes and interventions in the near future should be initi- ated to bring about necessary change. Students will then develop tenders and design briefings as a basis for a comprehensive plan- ning proposal.
The Studio will be held both online and physical. Excursions are planned.
For current information please check the Webstites of CUD, Habitat Unit or TU Urban Design Master.
Teaching: WM David Bauer, WM Veljko Markovic, LA Andrijana Ivanda
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