30/05/2018
And here it is:
We are happy to announce our Summerschool Workshop in 2018 - "Network Constellations"
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!
Berlin is growing. Through and around the city construction sites are found literally at every coner. According to Berlin's Senatsverwaltung the city must construct nearly 192.000 new homes by 2030. This means over 20.000 homes per year. With such development in the city center, the available land in the heart of the city has become limited and expensive. The land prices have thus become the driving force behind increased building costs, and the most vacants inner city plots has been already densified, the "future housing projects" will increasingly take place in Berlin's city fringes, where large swathes of land still sit undeveloped.
For an expanding city such as Berlin, these territories are crucial fronts for its future growth: they offer - in addition to its large unbuilt areas and expansion potentials - a high degree of attractiveness through green spaces and a potential lower threshold to housing for all due to lower land prices. At the same time, these areas are characterized by high spatial complexity, greater demand for mobility infrastructures and a strong social-spatial and functional separation. Long distances, often disjointed structures, and a gridlock by private transporation renders the city fringes unattractive.
In reaction to the ongoing debate, with the primarily focus on the issues of housing shortage, affordability and gentrification processes in the inner city areas, No-Image shifts the focus to Berlin's city fringes, and reformulates the housing question: How can the current growth dynamics be discussed not just in terms of a quantitative problem, but as a potential qualitative matter of Berlin's city expansion? Hence, how can the "housing question" be thought of as an urban project - a large network constituted by single housing projects - that is constructing the future city and therefore its future qualities? Which new elements are necessary?
The third Workshop of the No-Image Summerschool Series will address these issues with the agenda "Network Constellations". We will frame an analysis of the spatial & infrastructural qualities and amenities of Berlin's existing peripherial areas on a territorial level. Togehter with students and international tutors we seek to identify the networks of existing qualities and potentials of Berlin's urban fringes, and understand how such fragments might be linked and recomposed through the designation of new building sites, new areas, new networks.
Tutors:
Participants will work in research
teams under guidance of
Joanne Pouzenc (Berlin) & Martinez Barat Lafore Architects (Paris) ///
51N4E (Brussel) ///
C/O Now (Berlin) ///
Urban Design Thinking (Berlin) ///
Number of Participants:
45
Timeframe:
Network Constellations runs from 26.07 - 04.08.2018
Language:
The workshop will be conducted in English.
Structure:
«Network Constellations» is divided into four sections:
(1) Opening Program
(2) Workshop Part 1: Excursion & Analysis
(3) Workshop Part 2: Re-Work & Summary
(4) Presentation & Final Exhibition.
Fees:
250 Euro
Application:
Candidates should apply by sending a max. 5 MB PDF file (two pages, A4 portrait) comprising a CV and a presentation of their work in whatever form they prefer, making sure to include the following mandatory information: name, surname, date of birth, educational background, email address. The deadline for applications is
FRIDAY, 15th June, 2018 by 8pm CEST+1.
Send application material for Network Constellations to:
[email protected]
