CLIMATECTURE. The performance of climate, landscape, and architecture
14.10.2015
Symposium: 16.-17.10.2015
Climate–the dynamic cycle of weather at a particular site– determines our living conditions and our social, political and built reality. In these days, which are strongly influenced by climate change and its consequences, climate as a design tool is gaining more and more importance for future architecture and urban design. Climate decisively shapes the landscape as well as the built environment and determines our lifestyle and our social practices. Climate change, caused by human activity, has already led to a geographical shift of climate zones, which directly affects the natural and the built environment as well as socio-spatial constellations all over the world. Worldwide, architects, landscape architects and engineers are engaged in generating new spatial prototypes that are able to achieve an improvement of the local microclimates as well as global climate conditions. Besides form, space and technology, the performative agency of vegetation deserves special attention. Only by anticipating climate change and its consequences, through new performative approaches can we prepare our societies for the consequences ahead.Location:
Austrian Pavilion, Expo Milano 2015
Keynote lecture:
Friday 16.10.2015
20:00 - 21:00 hours
Philippe Rahm
Moderated lectures:
Saturday 17.10.2015
10:30 - 15:00 hours
Wojciech Czaja, Moderator
Bernhard Scharf, BOKU Wien
Wolfgang Kessling, Transsolar
Joachim Schulz-Granberg, Münster School of Architecture
Almut Grüntuch-Ernst, TU Braunschweig
Stefano Boeri, Architekt
Organizer:
TU Graz, Institut für Architektur und Landschaft
External sponsors:
Österreichisches Kulturforum Mailand
Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie
Advantage Austria
Entrance:
The keynote lecture and moderated lectures of the symposium are free of charge. Application is required before 15.10.2015 by e-mail to ial@tugraz.at with the subject “Climatecture symposium application”. Please state your name, profession, affiliation, and the day(s) you would like to be present.