Organized by "Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt" as part of the reevaluation process in preparation for the third International Building Exhibition, this event provides a platform for a diverse mix of experts to respond to some of Berlin’s most pressing urban issues. The IBA Berlin 2020 wishes to design the diverse city of the 21st century in a creative and participative process. To this end, Berlin’s specific talents and potentials should be experimentally reevaluated.
The second event of a series focusing on IBA Berlin‘s major topics – Economy, Knowledge, Living – turns its attention to large housing estates. Housing estates are generally viewed as a problem across Europe.
Nonetheless, they constitute a great potential for cities. The event on 13 February 2012 will discuss how these rigid, often monofunctional large-scale structures can be transformed into lively, mixed locations. How can new perspectives be created, using urban development and architectural means, artistic interventions and activation and participation strategies? What role do large-scale urban structures play in economic, environmentally friendly and socially sustainable urban redevelopment? Discussions with international guests are designed to provide inspiring insights and enrich the Berlin talks.
At this event, Michelle Provoost will present on behalf of INTI as part of the panel on Urban Development and Energy.
Programme
Senate Building Director of Berlin Regula Lüscher
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Michael Koch, HCU Hamburg
Large housing estates as urban building blocks
Prof. Jean-Philippe Vassal, Lacaton & Vassal Architectes, Paris
To do with. To keep capacities. Abnormality as a chance.
Prof. Dr. Karin Bradley, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and Ola Broms Wessel, Spridd
Green social regeneration of Swedish post-war housing
Statements and Talks
Urban Development and Energy
Frank Bielka, Vorstandsmitglied degewo
Prof. Lukas Feireiss, Kunstuniversität Linz
Dr. Ursula Flecken, ISR Berlin
Dr. Michelle Provoost, INTI – International New Town Institute
Arts and Culture
Markus Bader, Raumlabor
Jeanne van Heeswijk, freie Künstlerin, Rotterdam
Willem Sulsters, WSA Urban Revelopment, Rotterdam
People and Interactions
Prof. Tobias Armborst, Vassar College / Architekturbüro Interboro, New York
Joachim Barloschky, ehem. Quartiersmanager in Osterholz-Tenever
Dr. Marie-Therese Krings-Heckemeier, Kompetenznetzwerk Wohnen
Prof. Jean-Philippe Vassal, Lacaton & Vassal Architectes, Paris
Senate Building Director of Berlin Regula Lüscher
Closing remarks
