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The ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory Aedes Network Campus Berlin Christinenstr. 18 – 19 10119 Berlin Metropolitan Fon: +49(0)30 - 282 70 15 [email protected] Laboratory Fehrbelliner Str. Brunnenstr. Schwedter Str. Zionskirchstr. Ackerstr. Aedes/ANCB Senefelderplatz Volkspark am . r Pfefferberg Weinbergsweg t S Teutoburger r e Platz n i Invalidenstr. r Nordbahnhof Zehdenicker Str. o h C Lottumstr.Christinenstr. Rosenthaler Platz Gartenstr. Schönhauser Allee Torstr. Torstr. Straßburger Str. Tieckstr. Joachimstr. Linienstr. Allee Prenzlauer Große Hamburger Str. Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Mulackstr. Torstr. Linienstr. Gallery District Gipsstr. Steinstr. Oranienburger Tor Weydinger Str. Auguststr. Weinmeisterstr. Sophienstr. r W t e S in m r eis M.-Beer-Str. e t Almstadtstr. l ers Oranienburger Str. a tr. Karl-Liebknecht-Str. h t Münzstr. Oranienburger Str. n e s o Memhardstr. Johannisstr. R Friedrichstr. Dircksens de tr. Ziegelstr. Monbijou- na Platz e Alexanderplatz Monbijoustr. rom e P Neu Spree Hackescher Markt Am Weidendamm Am K u p f Alexanderplatz e rg Museums ra b TELEVISION e Universitätsstr. n Island Am Lustgarten TOWER Friedrichstr. Bodestr. Karl-Liebknecht-Str. Am Zeughaus Spandauer Dorotheenstr. Charlottenstr. BERLIN Jüdenstr. Dircksenstr. Aedes Network Campus Berlin Zeughs. CATHEDRAL Str. H.d. Gruner Str. Mittelstr. Schloßbrücke is continuously supported by Poststr. BERLIN Rathausstr. TOWNHALL Unter den Linden Klosterstr. Cassiopeia Foundation, Düsseldorf Breitestr. Behrenstr. Werderscher- ANCB's Research Partner 2013/2014 is Behrenstr. markt Jannowitzbrücke Französische Str. Zumtobel, Dornbirn Wilhelmstr. Französ. Str. Jägerstr. Kurstr. Fischerinsel Jägerstr. Gendarmen- markt Ober- wasser- Taubenstr. str. Märkisches Ufer Taubenstr. Hausvogteiplatz Rungestr. Niederwallstr. Märkisches Museum Brückenstr. Gertraudenstr. Mohrenstr. Stadtmitte Köpenicker Str. Mohrenstr. Kronenstr. Spittelmarkt www.ancb.deWallstr. AEDES NETWORK CAMPUS BERLIN 2013/14 providing a u n ique platform for contemporary urban discourse Welcome For over three decades, Aedes Architecture Forum Because traditional architectural training no longer has been exhibiting and publishing internationally suffices to answer the complexity of our urban situations, acclaimed and pioneering architecture alongside its ANCB is invested in a more comprehensive and integral urban environment. When Aedes was founded, it was approach to architecture and urbanism. We therefore the first time that contemporary architecture was challenge architects, urban designers, planners and introduced for public consideration as the product other related practitioners to rethink and cross of a thought process. conventional boundaries between each of their disciplines. Building upon the gallery’s history and expertise, We believe the answers for our future lie in the potential founding directors Kristin Feireiss and Hans-Jürgen of new technologies and materials, and in the way these Commerell created Aedes Network Campus Berlin advances may influence human behaviour and vice versa. in 2009. ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory was At ANCB we challenge architecture and indeed also established as a physical and intellectual space focused urban design and planning, as disciplines, to serve as on the inseparable interplay between urban form and “Cultural Communicators”. social life. It has become a cultural brand, constantly and substantially contributing to the broad discourse At ANCB we have condensed the global challenges facing of national and international architecture, urban our urban environment into a number of research topics, design and culture. which help define, guide and organise our work. As the starting point for ANCB’s activities, these topics prompt Since its official launch in 2009, ANCB has brought cross-cultural solutions that reflect original and together a broad range of students, researchers and alternative thinking, openness to collaboration, and practitioners from the fields of architecture, urban political engagement. planning and related disciplines. Together, we have facilitated design studios and public debates on a diverse Our model recognises the need to engage the public range of subjects relevant to the city; generating valuable in collaborative thinking processes that draw on inter- exchange between local and international students, disciplinary cooperation and trans-sectoral inquiry. At policy makers, as well as industry and design experts. ANCB we are therefore committed to generating insights, suggesting positions and proposing solutions that respond effectively and creatively to the critical urban questions of today by searching for potentiales. Kristin Feireiss and Hans-Jürgen Commerell Directors, ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory What is ANCB? bottom: Spatial planner Henk Ovink moderates a debate on A Public Urban Platform for collective observation climate change with Reiner Nagel from the Federal Foundation –and discussion around critical issues facing the city. As Architect Rem Koolhaas and philosopher Peter Sloterdijk of Baukultur, architect Edzo Bindels, politician Paula Verhoeven, Design studio with students part of an extensive research network, ANCB operates as converse on architecture, urbanism and philosophy, landscape architect Antje Stokmann and architect Han Meyer from the Dessau Institute of alongside moderator Stephan Trüby during the Design & Politics series Architecture an active hub that connects individuals and institutions from all continents with experts in the fields of urban culture and metropolitan technology. Fostering a culture of international exchange and cooperation, ANCB gathers and diffuses strategies and answers to the varying challenges faced in cities. A place for Alternative Urban Education for –students and academics from universities worldwide. Through its studios, debates and publications, ANCB offers a continuous programme for interactive education on multiple levels. We bring together people from the arts, humanities, sciences and design to foster inter- disciplinary collaborations that address diverse urban and architectural conditions. At ANCB, theory meets practice and students work alongside practitioners, generating outcomes that are based on both experience and innovation. A trans-sectoral Urban Think-Tank for those –who wish to undertake joint enquiries about urban and architectural topics. ANCB connects inventive designers and the research capabilities of our university partners Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, with industrial needs, commercial opportunities and photographer and partner of ANCB political strategies; as well as specialists and leading and Hans-Jürgen Commerell practitioners from other vocational fields, such as governance, industry, research and design. Our urban design laboratory is based on finding practical solutions within an atmosphere of realistic production that oscillates between thinking and making. A broad International Urban Network –established and upheld by leading pioneers in the fields of architecture education and practice, urban design, construction and product industry, urban governance and art. Today, ANCB is positioned at the centre of an extensive circle of experts in the fields of urban culture and metropolitan technology. Our network of global knowledge and innovation is permanently growing with diverse professionals from social and political sciences, health and technology, among many others. ANCB Director Kristin Feireiss discusses the city with children during the ANCB Junior Campus Yoshiharu Tsukamoto from Atelier Bow-Wow, ANCB Director Hans-Jürgen in discussion with musician and theoretician Christopher Dell Commerell introduces a public debate in the Design & Politics series Architects Matthias Sauerbruch and Frank Barkow as design studio guest critics discuss with students from Universidad Europea de Madrid Students during the Re-act Lab Maria Teresa Diniz, from the São Paulo Municipality, São Paulo Architecture Experiment presents the Paraisópolis Favela at the Re-act Lab design studio. ANCB engages with a large, representative public to We explore the potential of innovative materials We use design as our modus operandi. The process address the critical urban issues of our time. By raising and advanced technologies. Scientific progress itself is the key and an important part of the solution. awareness in public discourse, we intend to improve continuously transforms architecture and design in As a multi-faceted discipline, design is perfectly suited human living conditions in our increasingly globalised exciting, unpredictable ways. New materials and for bringing together knowledge from diverse sources. and urban environments. Our intention is to foster the advanced technology will always influence the way we Design is also a tool that relies on the power of visual networking of international expertise and education, interact with our environments. By constantly monitoring information to synthesise, envision and communicate while contributing fresh perspectives and proposals the impact technologies have on behaviour, we can powerful ideas that can then be realised. Rather than for the benefit of everyday city life. We facilitate inter- evaluate the potential for truly innovative approaches focusing on a finished end product, our approach to disciplinary processes that are fundamental to and ingenious solutions. design focuses on complex thought processes, thorough We share ideas and knowledge. As a unique resource the envisioning of effective responses