Lecturers (TU Wien)
- Jadric, Mladen
- Xu Kai
- Kurt Weninger
with guest Professors from Partner universities in Palermo, Shanghai, Busan and Kyushu
Place: Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung, TU Wien
Vortragende & Betreuung:
Jadric, Mladen; Ass.Prof. Arch. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. with Xu Kai, Guest Prof. from PR China
Gastprofessoren aus der Partneruniversitäten in Italy, China, Japan und South Korea
A new cultural project for European cities
Public space toward a sustainable urban environment
Gerhard Richter
Venedig (Treppe) Venice (Staircase)
1985 51.4 cm x 71.8 cm Werkverzeichnis: 586-3
Öl auf Leinwand
A new European Bauhaus between Next Generation EU, Green Deal and Agenda 2030
The President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen has launched the creative and interdisciplinary initiative entitledNew European Bauhaus,in order to trigger the virtual construction of a space of encounter to design future ways of living between art, culture, social inclusion, science and technology. It is aimed at fostering a collective effort to imagine and build a sustainable, inclusive and beautiful future, bringing the Green Deal to our living places.
- Beautiful means inclusive, accessible spaces where the dialogue between diverse cultures, disciplines, genders and ages becomes an opportunity to imagine a better place for all. It also means a more inclusive economy, where wealth is distributed and spaces are affordable.
- Beautiful means sustainable solutions that create a dialogue between our built environment and the planet's ecosytems. It means to realise regenerative approaches inspired by natural cycles that replenish resources and protect biodiversity.
- Beautiful means enriching experiences that respond to needs beyond our material dimension, inspired by creativity, art and culture. It means appreciating diversity as an opportunity to learn from each other.
Building an international network for a shared cultural project
The Sapienza University of Rome and the Technische Universität Wien open a cutting-edge debate and promote the construction of a network of architect, engineers, designers and artists - academics, scholars and professionals - in order to contribute to initiative New European Bauhaus in the framework of the long-standing international activities and relations of the Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture (PDTA - Sapienza) and the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Institute of Architecture und Design (TU Wien).
The activities carried out by the International Unit of the Department PDTA focus on an interdisciplinary perspective on urban environment pointing out the references and practices related to a multiscalar and integrated approach for urban regeneration.
In particular, the international relations represent the framework to consolidate an integrated contribution of design disciplines to the challenges related to urban and environmental sustainability, with particular reference to the 17 Goals of the Agenda 2030. Urban regeneration, technology and environment, design for sustainability are key works to rethink public space, housing, infrastructures, resources management, commons.
The activities relate to interdisciplinary cultural and scientific events in order to enhance and integrate teaching, research and third mission.
The city in its circular fever
repeats and repeats
City, my city,
scorned stela,
dishonored stone.
…
Patio, wall, ash, tree, well
dissolve into clarity in the form of a lake
A foliage of transparency
grows on its shore. Fortunate
rhyme of peaks and pyramids,
the landscape unfolds
in the abstract mirror of the architecture.
Octavio Paz, A Draft of Shadows
Public space for a sustainable urban environment in Europe. Starting events and activities
The process of construction of the international network starts focusing the attention on public space in the Anthropocene as a main field of research and practice in Europe and as a multi-scalar and cross-cutting issue for architect, engineers, designers and urban planners, artists - academics, scholars and professionals.
Public space represents a central issue for cultural identity and inclusion of European cities, as well as strategic component of sustainability and resilience, between climate change, economic crisis and pandemic.
Public space is thus at the frontline (Un-habitat, 2020; OECD, 2020) to face contemporary challenges and a possible matrix for green, inclusive and resilient cities where scientific knowledge, cultural references and social needs can find shared guidelines at European level coming from urban and landscape planning, architectural design and technology, industrial design, building physics, botany, town planning law.
Circular economy and natural cycles, flexible and mixed uses, multicultural creativity and cultural heritage are key issue of a programme of activities articulated in:
- A Study dayin April 2021 that will involve Universities in a theoretical debate on goals and issues related to public space between pandemic challenges and long-standing goals of sustainability in the framework of the 2030 Agenda; the Study day is aimed at pointing out priorities and practices relating to the regeneration of waterfronts and linear parks as urban margins, areas of conflict, interaction and synergy between urban fabric and natural components; in these scope, planning and design of public spaces involve different anthropic and natural urban components from areas of landscape and ecological interest to deprived sites, fostering opportunities to reshape urban paths and strengthen accessibility, relaunch ecological cycles with nature-based solutions, revitalize social life activities in abandoned spaces, spread cultural and collective activities in wide, safe and continuous public networks, thanks to permanent and temporary interventions.
- A Didactic experimentationheld in the framework of the teaching activities of Sapienza University and TU Wien within the second semester of the 2020-2021 AY,
- An International seminar and workshopheld in September 2021 that will involve all the partners of the network in order to propose projects and actions for European cities.
TIMELINE:
March 2021
- Kick-off, Introduction of Design Studio,
- Zoom meeting TUW - La Sapienza
- Work in groups, collections of materials and documents
April 2021
- A Study day - together with guest-speakers, architects and artists
- Work in groups,
- Zoom presentation of concepts for the students in Rome/Vienna
May 2021
- Work in groups
- Zoom presentation for the students in Rome/Vienna (?)
June 2021
- Work in groups
- Zoom presentation for the students in Rome/Vienna
July and August 2021
- Individual research and work in groups
September 2021
- An International seminar and workshop with the participation of all TUW/LS students
- Closing event
WS 21 - Publication (?)
Team:
Federica Dal Falco - La Sapienza
Chiara Sardari - La Sapienza
Mladen Jadric - TU Wien
Guest-speakers: architects and artists
Assistance: Federica Rizzo - TU Wien
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