For a new quality of togetherness – future perspectives and design options for a sustainable transformation of our cities
In the spirit of Aufbau Haus as a creative incubator for inspiring encounters and the development of new ideas, we invite you to an open exchange and informal discussion about sustainable architecture and urban development once a month.
It has long been known that architecture, the construction industry and urban planning play a significant role in our current climate plight. Those responsible have often declared that they are not responsible and have shifted the demands for less energy consumption and emissions or more greenery and climate-friendly building materials back and forth: sometimes it is not financially feasible, sometimes not practically feasible, sometimes simply not wanted. As a result, we have all lost valuable time, which has not only increased the impatience of urban society, but also the actual urgency. Because yes, we must finally act and correct course. We need a sustainable transformation of our built environment. We need a climate-friendly turnaround in construction.
A whole series of new initiatives such as New European Bauhaus, Bauhaus der Erde, IBA Klima Berlin, Klimastadt Berlin 2030, or Architects4Future, all of which are committed in one way or another to sustainable architecture and urban development, testify to the fact that such a diagnosis is no longer the opinion of individual idealists who have been working for decades on alternative building materials such as clay and wood, or intelligent production methods and usage scenarios such as the circular economy. In fact, we can speak of a certain spirit of optimism that has been preoccupying and moving the industry for a while now. It seems as if the decisive momentum has arrived.
However, a real transformation of the built environment will only succeed if it is not limited to temporally and spatially limited and, in the worst case, competing real laboratories and experimental spaces, but becomes part of the everyday practice of architects, builders, investors, project developers, homeowners, building administrations, urban planning offices and many more. To achieve this, we don’t necessarily need new flagship projects, but above all a new quality of cooperation! Cooperation that names the numerous dysfunctions of the system by name and works on solutions to problems. Cooperation that makes it possible to pull together and effectively network existing initiatives. A togetherness that actually sees itself as a movement.
With our series of events, we would like to be part of such a large movement and contribute to the circulation of even more knowledge about sustainable architecture and urban development, the development of even more skills on the part of all those involved, the formation of even more networks of forces and the implementation of more concrete measures in order to tackle the enormous mammoth task we all face together.
Together with experts from design, the real estate industry, urban development policy and all those interested in the ecological transformation of our built environment, we want to discuss how a real building turnaround can succeed. What priorities need to be set, what measures need to be taken, what barriers to innovation need to be removed?
We are convinced that a real “turnaround” can only be achieved if we join forces and achieve a new quality of cooperation between all those involved. We would like to contribute to this with our salon.
We cordially invite you to join us!
Initiators and contact persons: Sebastian Bissinger & Laure Boer (BANK™), Jason Danziger (thinkbuild), Erhard An-He Kinzelbach (KNOWSPACE), Sven Sappelt (CLB Berlin) and Martin Schmitt (Martin Schmitt Architektur)
