Archive: IBA Berlin 2020

Berlin is getting ready for the third International Building Exhibition. 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 potential should be experimentally revaluated.

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.

The event on 13 February 2012, Location: Villa Elisabeth
3 pm - 7.30 pm

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

Location
Villa Elisabeth
Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin-Mitte
(U-Bhf. Rosenthaler Platz, S-Bhf. Nordbahnhof, Tramhaltestelle Brunnenstraße / Invalidenstraße)

Registration for the event is not required.

Event management
adrian-prozessnavigation
zahn@adrian-prozessnavigation.de
Phone: + 49 30 21403195

Organizer
Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment
Werkstatt – Baukultur, Kommunikation, Oberste Denkmalschutzbehörde
Am Köllnischen Park 3
10179 Berlin


Graphic design: chezweitz & partner
Illustration: Thomas Rustemeyer
Photo: Volker Kreidler