water: curse or blessing!?

#4 Water Infrastructures

The forth Lab Talk in the series focusses on how to deal with urban water infrastructures in the wake of changing conditions for our cities.

Moderated by Aric Chen, supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin, and on the occasion of the opening of the Aedes exhibition Wind Blows, Water Rises with NODE, design office of Architecture & Urbanism, Shenzhen; and the Greater Bay Design Innovative Lab (GBA Lab) of Shenzhen University.

Welcome and Introduction
Dunya Bouchi, Managing Director, Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Eduard Kögel
, Urban Planner, Berlin
Yue Fan, Professor, Dean, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University

Presentations
Doreen Heng Liu
, Founder and Principal, NODE, Shenzhen / Director, GBA Lab, Shenzhen University
Anna Friedrich
, Engineer for Technical Environmental Protection, Rainwater Agency Berlin
Jiang Feng, Professor of Architecture History, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou
Koen Olthuis
, Architect, Waterstudio, Amsterdam

Panel discussion with participants and peers, moderated by Aric Chen, Curator, General and Artistic Director, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

Front Row Peers
Michele Bonino
, Professor, Dean, Architecture and Urban Design Department, Politecnico di Torino
Margaret Crawford
, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Xinggang Li
, Founder and Principal, Atelier Li Xinggang, Beijing
Momoyo Kaijima, Professor, ETH Zurich
Eduard Kögel, Urban Planner, Berlin
Thomas Waldmann, Innovation Management / Start-Up & Venture Manager, Würth Elektronik, Berlin
Hubert Klumpner, Professor, Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETHZ / Design Principal and CEO, Urbanthinktank_next, Zurich

AEDES Debate

PUBLIC DEBATE

Design Cultures Urban Research and Design Methods in Europe and Asia
Friday, 31 March 2017, 4.00 pm

The discussion will introduce both architecture offices and their approach to design. Each of the offices base their design strategies on research in the urban context and topology as well as on traditional concepts to find a contemporary expression for their respective space- production. While both teams were partly educated in the US, the Chinese office Studio Zhu-Pei uses traditional tools like sketches, physical models and ink drawings in the context of a rich cultural history, the office of Jakob + MacFarlane uses high-end digital technology and computer augmented layers to create their projects and connect them to the site. The presentation of both approaches will be followed by an expert discussion on similarities and differences between the two design cultures in the context of architecture education and their respective social realm. More information on the exhibitions here.

PROGRAMME
Welcome
Hans Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Presentations
Zhu Pei, Studio Zhu-Pei, Beijing
Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane, Jakob + MacFarlane, Paris

Followed by a discussion with
Li Xiangning, Professor in History, Theory and Criticism, Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai
Zhou Rong, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University Architecture School, Beijing
Raymund Ryan, Architecture Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Francis Rambert, Director, IFA (French Institute of Architecture), Paris

Moderated by
Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin
Aric Chen, Lead Curator for Design and Architecture, M+, Hong Kong

After the talk, at 6.30 pm, we cordially invite you to attend the Exhibition Opening at Aedes Architecture Forum next door.