Summer School - Cultural Landscapes & Urban Resilience, Weimar, Germany

Urban Resilience relying to the robustness and preparedness of our built environment and society to its vulnerability is often hard to catch when it comes about its integration and realisation in the day to day realities. Disciplines related to spatial development are more and more asked to respond to these requirements to adapt to unexpected occurrences of natural hazards (earth quakes, floods) and to become reactive in the built space.

Next to the building related knowledge about vulnerability and preventive or adaptive measures among architects and engineers the process and acceptance of it is dependant from cultural values as well. The overarching topic of urban resilience therefore can be treated with a transcultural perspective, as a cultural landscape understood as an environment that is created by humans in relation to their natural surroundings with today’s expectations to construct resilient structures and communities. The process of change that forms the cultural landscapes for urban resilience requires an interdisciplinary approach that is taking into account diverse aspects for building schemes and planning processes.

Participants will learn about several aspects of urban resilience from an environmental and cultural perspective through different tools, scientific methods and analysis, including gis-techniques. The course will introduce more general approaches for integrated urban development and urban sustainability to the specific analysis of urban heat islands as well as the analysis of different construction typologies in relation to risks of earthquake damage. For case study we will refer to two different settlements forms: informal and formal, trying to weight in how far both forms can contribute to resilient settlement patterns and which additional measures should be taken into consideration.

The course will systematically approach an understanding of urban resilience that both connects man-made as well as natural conditions in the urban context, including scales from the urban to the building level.

Next to planning in an interdisciplinary and transnational context, the workshop offers different options to learn about different approaches and urban typologies and to assess them in a broader perspective for finally being able to shape and design in different geographical and cultural systems.

The course language is English.

Please contact us if you would like personal consultation. We will be happy to help you.

Lecturers 

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc.
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU), Weimar

Dr.-Ing. Hassan ElMouelhi, M.Sc.
Technische Universität Berlin, Habitat Unit, Berlin

Dr. Conrad Philipp
University of South Australia, Adelaide
Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour (sd+b),
CRC for Low Carbon Living
www.lowcarbonlivingcrc.com.au
Urban Micro Climates

Co-lecturers
Like in our summer school course of last year, several experts, lectures and practitioners from different institutions worldwide concerned with architecture and urban development will be part of the instructors team to work on a concrete case study. Several lectures will support the studio and analysis work with the necessary background information.

The co-lecturers will be announced soon.

Guest lecturers from partner universities

• Dr. & Associate Professor Quing Li
  Tongji-University Shanghai, College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP)

• t.b.a.
  Moscow State University of Civil Engineers, Institute of Construction and Architecture, Department of Urban Planning and Building Design

This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:

https://www.uni-weimar.de/summerschool/en/courses/architecture-urbanism/cultural-landscapes-resilient-cities/