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Convertible City

Convertible City

Vision: Convertible City

Construction in European cities is probably 90% complete (Sieverts). In contrast to the situation in a set of other countries marked by rapid growth, Central European cities therefore have to focus on strategies and tools for the permanent transformations and adaptations to change within existing formations. This requires specialized and innovative approaches in the fields of urban development, infrastructural planning and architecture. This is precisely what the research field "Convertible City" stands for. The current major social issues such as climate change, globalisation, demographic change and resource depletion call for a thorough examination of existing structures. Regardless of whether we are "continuing to build", "rebuilding" or "reducing, reusing, recycling" - in the "Convertible City" transformation is characterised by adaptation to and integration of already existing formations. Our aim is to make the city fit for future developments, to preserve its architectural heritage and, at the same time, to shape (future) life in the city in ways that conserve resources and enable participation.

In addition to systematically assessing, evaluating and creatively developing existing structures, special attention is paid to the feedback between the various stakeholders within the urban field. For whenever existing formations with their specific social relations, cultural significance and social relevance, are enmeshed in processes of transformation, existing stakeholders are always "affected" - and ideally they also "participate". We note that the range of measures procedures currently available for such processes can be expanded. The focus of "Convertible City" is therefore not only on planning physical interventions, but also on co-designing them together with all those concerned.

Projects

Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change

Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change

Funding Period: 2016 - 2018

Funding Organization:

PI: E Voigts (Literature and Cultural Studies)

Information about the Project here

EnEff Campus: blueMAP

EnEff Campus: blueMAP

Funding Period: 2012 - 2015

Funding Organization: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)

PI: U Brederlau (iSE), S Kauffeld (IfP AOS), M Kurrat (elenia), J Jaspers (GB3 TU BS)

Information about the Project here

V-Charge

V-Charge

Funding Period: 2011 - 2015

Funding Organization: EU FP7

PI: L Wolf (IBR), ETH Zürich

Information about the Project here

Integrierte Kompetenentwicklung im Handwerk | In-K-Ha

Integrierte Kompetententwicklung im Handwerk | In-K-Ha.

Funding Period: 2011 - 2015

Funding Organisation: Handwerkskammer Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Stadte

PI: S Kauffeld (Institut für Psychologie).

Information about the Project here

Social Cars | DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1931

Social Cars | DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1931

Funding Period: since 2013

Funding Organisation: DFG (GK1931)

PI: B Friedrich (iVS), M Vollrath (Institut für Ingenieur- und Verkehrspsychologie), D Mattfeld (Decision Support).

Information about the Project here

Diversity und Diversity Management im Hochschulbetrieb | DDiM

Diversity und Diversity Management im Hochschulbetrieb | DDiM

Funding Period: since 2013

Funding Organisation: DDiM

PI:

Information about the Project here

Leicht Bauen mit Beton | SPP 1542

Leicht Bauen mit Beton | SPP 1542

Funding Period: since 2010

Funding Organisation: DFG

PI: M Curbach (TU Dresden)

Information about the Project here


Involved scientists

Prof. Uwe Brederlau, Institut für

Städebau und Entwurfsmethodik

 

Prof. Uwe Dombrowski, Institut für

Fabrikbetriebslehre und Unternehmensforschung

 

Prof. Vanessa Miriam Carlow, Institut für

Nachhaltigen Städtebau

 

Prof. Christoph Herrmann, Institut für

Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik

 

Prof. Simone Kauffeld, Institut für

Arbeits- Organisations- und Sozialpsychologie

 

Prof. Gabriele G. Kiefer, Institut für

Landschaftsarchitektur

 

Prof. Alexander von Kienlin, Institut für

Baugeschichte

 

Prof. Harald Kloft, Institut für

Tragwerksentwurf

 

Dr.-Ing. Christina Krafczyk, Institut für

Bauwerkserhaltung und Tragwerk

 

Prof. Thomas S. Spengler, Insitut für

Automobilwirtschaft und Industrielle Produktion

 

Prof. Volker Staab, Institut für

Entwerfen und Raumkomposition

 

Prof. Thomas Vietor, Institut für

Konstruktionstechnik

 

Prof. Eckart Voigts, Institut für

Anglistik und Amerikanistik

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