Circular Strategies Symposium

Towards a Sustainable Built Environment

2/10/2020, 9:30AM (CEST)
online via ZOOM or Youtube

The climate crisis and scarcity of resources are forcing us to reduce the ecological footprint of architecture and urban development, but this obligation also opens up new opportunities for cultural expression. The principles of circular economy play an important role in approaches to sustainable architecture. The symposium will address this topic on different scales — from building components to the urban fabric — and under two aspects: How can existing materials, buildings and urban areas be adapted and reused, and how can components, architectural objects and cities be designed for future reuse and transformation? International experts from the fields of architecture and social ecology will present various concepts and discuss them with the audience.

PROGRAM:

09:30 – 11:00 INTRO

Welcome and opening
Gerald Bast (Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Why Circular Strategies?
Karin Raith (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Keynote 1
from the perspective of social ecology:
Energy Revolutions and Material Cycling in Earth and Human History
Helga Weisz (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)

Keynote 2
from the perspective of architecture:

The Nature of Building
Harquitectes (Sabadell/Barcelona, Spain)

11:30 – 13:00 SESSION 1 / small scale:
Reuse of building components, design of components for reuse

Re:use, Experimental Approach and Practical Application
Carola Stabauer (enster, Harvest MAP, TU Wien, Austria)

Form follows availability – Designing Load-bearing Structures through Component Reuse
Jan Brütting (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Urban Mining Design: Circular Economy Building Strategy
Annette Hillebrandt (Prof. of Construction | Design | Material, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)

12:15 – 13:00 Panel discussion

with Carola Stabauer, Jan Brütting, Annette Hillebrandt and Lukas Allner (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 2 / medium scale:
Reuse of Buildings, Design of Buildings for Reuse

Three Reuse Projects in Pearl River Delta
Ying Jiang (O-Office Architects, Guangzhou, China)

It’s Already There – Augmenting Matter and Meaning through Architectural Reuse
Gert Kwekkeboom (Civic Architects, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Architectonic Lifecycle Management
Muck Petzet (München/Berlin, Germany)

14:45 – 15:30 Panel discussion

with Ying Jiang, Gert Kwekkeboom, Muck Petzet and Bernhard Sommer (EXIKON arc&dev, University of Applied Arts Vienna)

16:00 – 17:30 SESSION 3 / large scale:

Reuse of Urban Areas, Design of Urban Areas for Reuse

The Role of Material Stock Patterns for Societies’ Resource Use and Well-Being
Helmut Haberl (Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

Masterplanning the Adaptive City
Sergio Porta (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland)

The City Territory as a Renewable Resource
Paola Viganò (Milano/Brussels, EPFL Lausanne and IUAV Venice)

16:45 – 17:30 Panel discussion

with Helmut Haberl, Sergio Porta, Paola Viganò and Andrea Börner (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Moderated by Wojciech Czaja, author and journalist, Vienna.

This event is a cooperation with the Vienna Design Week.