AE” Architecture + Environment Symposium 2019: New Environments

The quest for saving the biosphere of Earth from accumulative and accelerating human impact in the so-called age of the Anthropocene brings with it significant efforts in research across many disciplines to meet complex and dynamic challenges. One key aspect in this quest is the advancement of the notion of ‘environment’ in terms of what is meant by it and how to support it accordingly. For architects, urban designers and landscape architects the question arises whether architecture could be in the service of the bio-physical environment.
 
This symposium collects together various disciplines, knowledge fields, approaches, expertise and methods that together can contribute to this effort. This includes human and environment relations, biology and ecology, urban metabolism, industrial ecology, architecture and environment interactions, the role of data, surveying and sensing, as well as technological advances that enable human-designed adaptive environments.
 
Second in a series of symposia that are organized in collaboration between the Technical University in Vienna and the Technical University in Munich, this event seeks to set the scene for advancing inter- and transdisciplinary efforts in rethinking the notion of environment and the role of constructions and their interaction with it.

Please register at the following e-mail address until 20.03.2019:

bianca.braun@tuwien.ac.at

Thursday 28 March 2019:

08:00
Coffee
 
08:15
Welcome + Introduction Prof. Dr. Dipl. Ing. Michael U. Hensel

08:30
Keynote 1: Prof. John E. Fernández 
Urban Metabolism and Planetary Thresholds

09:30
Coffee break

09:45
Prof. Dipl. Ing. Thomas Auer
Lost in Transformation?

10:20
Prof. Dr. Ing. Ulrich Knaack 
Facade Roadmap

10:55
Univ. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Dr. techn. Ardeshir Mahdavi 
Of sustainable architecture and other fairy tales

11:30
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig
Regenerative Architecture: Exploring the synergies between productive landscapes and plant based architecture

12:05
Lunch

13:00
Keynote 2: Prof. Dr. Claudia Binder 
Conceptualizing the role of human-environment relations in urban sustainability

14:00
Coffee Break

14:15
Prof. Dr. Ing. Stephan Pauleit
Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services for Climate Resilient Cities

14:50
Adj. Prof. Dr. Katia Perini
Greening Cities – Nature-based Design Strategies for the Urban Environment

15:25
Dr. Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel
Embedded Architectures and Ecological Prototypes

16:15
Keynote 3: Hon. Prof. Dr. Julian Vincent
Architecture by Numbers

17:15
Podium Discussion
 
18:00
End

Friday 29 March 2019

08:00
Coffee
 
08:20
Introduction Prof. Dr. Dipl. Ing. Michael U. Hensel

08:30
Keynote 4: Billie Faircloth
A Method Amongst Many Methods

09:30
Coffee break
 
09:45
Dipl. Ing. Dr. techn. Markus Hollaus
Multi-scale and multi-sensor remote sensing data for landscape mapping

10:20
Prof. Grazia Tucci
The role of geoinformation for the cultural heritage: from landscape to artworks

11:00
Coffee break
 
11:15
Daniele Santucci
Climatewalks and flows

11:50
Prof. Dr. Ing. Henriette Bier
Adaptive Environments based on Design-to-Robotic Operation Principles

12:20
Podium Discussion
 
13: 00
Final Comments + End