FutureCityLab
Cities in Progress: Please do (not) disturb
We are now in a period of unprecedented ecological, climatic and energy change on a global scale. We will have to address a number of urgent and intransigent issues like foods and water shortages as well as sustainable mobility and the necessary proliferation of energy sources.
Future Cities will have to respond to these changes and utilize their inherent opportunities to be vibrant, energy-efficient and sustainable cities. By the end of the 21st century, two-thirds of the world's population will be living in cities or urban centres. Other regions will suffer from rapidly decreasing population. All these issues make cities the focal point in the search for solutions. But what might these solutions be? Can we imagine, now, what these future cities might look like?
In order to answer these questions, institutions, educators and leading professionals worldwide have collaborated to launch the open-source initiative FutureCityLab. The Lab initiated by Thomas Auer (Transsolar) and Daniel Dendra (anOtherArchitect) in 2010, is a distributed non-hierarchical mechanism for the envisioning of sustainable futures.
Organized as a complex, multi-layered, peer to peer network, FutureCityLab seeks to mobilize the efforts of students of architecture and urban design around the world, combined with the expertise of the network experts. Through networking and social media technologies FutureCityLab is developing a global, grassroots discourse on what we need to do as a species to address our cities’ most pressing issues. In creating an opensourced database of research and ideas, FutureCityLab looks to build, in a manner akin to crowdsourcing, viable and achievable visions for our urban future(s).
The exhibition presents the work-in-progress of the lab. The first chapter shows the discussion and visualization work that FutureCityLab has undertaken over the last year, is compiled and presented through the medium of “DIALOGUES”. The second part of the exhibition, DIALOGUE 2.0, is using the event of the exhibition as an opportunity to move the discussion forward and to increase the scale and scope of the FutureCityLab network. The exhibition space will be used as an active stage using the Aedes gallery as a context for the construction of future scenarios. Workshops and discussions will be initiated. The goal of DIALOGUE 2.0 is not only to engage FutureCityLab participants but also the larger in lively debates. For a full listing of events, please see the website, www.ftrctlb.com.
Speaking at the opening will be:
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin
Prof. Colin Ripley, Ryerson University Toronto
Dr. Ewald Boehlke, Zukunftsforscher Berlin
We are now in a period of unprecedented ecological, climatic and energy change on a global scale. We will have to address a number of urgent and intransigent issues like foods and water shortages as well as sustainable mobility and the necessary proliferation of energy sources.
Future Cities will have to respond to these changes and utilize their inherent opportunities to be vibrant, energy-efficient and sustainable cities. By the end of the 21st century, two-thirds of the world's population will be living in cities or urban centres. Other regions will suffer from rapidly decreasing population. All these issues make cities the focal point in the search for solutions. But what might these solutions be? Can we imagine, now, what these future cities might look like?
In order to answer these questions, institutions, educators and leading professionals worldwide have collaborated to launch the open-source initiative FutureCityLab. The Lab initiated by Thomas Auer (Transsolar) and Daniel Dendra (anOtherArchitect) in 2010, is a distributed non-hierarchical mechanism for the envisioning of sustainable futures.
Organized as a complex, multi-layered, peer to peer network, FutureCityLab seeks to mobilize the efforts of students of architecture and urban design around the world, combined with the expertise of the network experts. Through networking and social media technologies FutureCityLab is developing a global, grassroots discourse on what we need to do as a species to address our cities’ most pressing issues. In creating an opensourced database of research and ideas, FutureCityLab looks to build, in a manner akin to crowdsourcing, viable and achievable visions for our urban future(s).
The exhibition presents the work-in-progress of the lab. The first chapter shows the discussion and visualization work that FutureCityLab has undertaken over the last year, is compiled and presented through the medium of “DIALOGUES”. The second part of the exhibition, DIALOGUE 2.0, is using the event of the exhibition as an opportunity to move the discussion forward and to increase the scale and scope of the FutureCityLab network. The exhibition space will be used as an active stage using the Aedes gallery as a context for the construction of future scenarios. Workshops and discussions will be initiated. The goal of DIALOGUE 2.0 is not only to engage FutureCityLab participants but also the larger in lively debates. For a full listing of events, please see the website, www.ftrctlb.com.
Speaking at the opening will be:
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin
Prof. Colin Ripley, Ryerson University Toronto
Dr. Ewald Boehlke, Zukunftsforscher Berlin
When
05.22.2012
07.05.2012
Where
Aedes am Pfefferberg, Halle
Christinenstr. 18-19
Berlin
Germany
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