Circular Strategies Symposium
Towards a Sustainable Built Environment
2/10/2020, 9:30AM (CEST)
online via ZOOM or Youtube
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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.
Gerald Bast (Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Karin Raith (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
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)
from the perspective of architecture:
Harquitectes (Sabadell/Barcelona, Spain)
11:30 – 13:00 SESSION 1 / small scale:
Reuse of building components, design of components for reuse
Carola Stabauer (enster, Harvest MAP, TU Wien, Austria)
Jan Brütting (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Annette Hillebrandt (Prof. of Construction | Design | Material, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
Reuse of Buildings, Design of Buildings for Reuse
Ying Jiang (O-Office Architects, Guangzhou, China)
Gert Kwekkeboom (Civic Architects, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Muck Petzet (München/Berlin, Germany)
16:00 – 17:30 SESSION 3 / large scale:
Helmut Haberl (Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
Sergio Porta (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland)
Paola Viganò (Milano/Brussels, EPFL Lausanne and IUAV Venice)
Moderated by Wojciech Czaja, author and journalist, Vienna.