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Houston, we have a problem:Ecology and responsibility

CALL FOR PROJECTS - Deadline: 31.01.2019

25.04.2024 at 9 am D A Z — Deutsches Architektur Zentrum

In 1879, the American economist Henry George first referred to earth as “A ship on which we sail through space.” Man-made climate change threatens to put an early and catastrophic stop to our spaceship’s journey. The Association of German Architects (BDA), der architekt magazine, and the German Architecture Centre (DAZ) are looking for projects, either planned or completed, that go beyond conventional solutions using thermal insulation composite systems to help keep ‘Spaceship Earth’ on course in these times of climate change.

The search focuses on approaches from disciplines including architecture, city planning, society, energy supply, transport or economy. Submissions can be anything from temporary projects, redevelopments, new buildings, social, integrational or neighbourhood initiatives, to digital or analogue community projects. Reports from residents or users are also welcome.

Following the open call for projects, the included concepts will be examined and discussed based on various disciplines. The BDA would like to offer a platform for projects that show what bold action can look like beyond the claimed lack of alternatives.

Throughout 2019, the BDA, DAZ and der architekt will look at the visionary optimism of different models that strive to transform vision into reality and help reduce the consequences of climate change to a tolerable level for ‘Spaceship Earth’. The submitted projects will feed into the ongoing plans for BDA Day on 25 May 2019 in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Please provide the following details for each project:

Initiator/contracting authority
Person/company responsible for project implementation
Location
Completion date (planned)
Project objective
In which areas does the project provide solutions for critical climate change issues
Submissions via e-mail
- with attachments up to 10 MB
Text documents with up to 5,000 characters of text including spaces (.odt, .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf)
4 image files: .jpg, .pdf, .tiff or .png
Submission deadline: 31 January 2019
- to: houston@bda-bund.de. We are also happy to answer your questions at this address.

Initiators
Association of German Architects (BDA)
German Architecture Centre (DAZ)
BDA magazine der architekt

Profile

DAZ

With Laura Holzberg and Alesa Mustar, the German Architecture Center DAZ has a new curatorial and artistic direction since this year.

While Laura Holzberg has already been accompanying the DAZ for ten years, Alesa Mustar joined the team in 2020. The two of them are dedicated to social issues on a social, political and spatial level beyond architecture. Thus, the new dual leadership started in September with a series of talks dealing with socio-cultural paradigm shifts and the related questions of equitable space production. They understand the DAZ as an enabling and discursive space.

“In terms of the DAZ, I see the idea of a Support Structure as something that provides a basic structure within which potential can be released. DAZ as a place for encounter and exchange, where current social and architectural issues are negotiated.” (Holzberg, curator and space strategist)

“Interacting with the public means being in constant correlation with our target groups, which describe a wide range: From academia, politics, construction to artists, activists and designers. We take up current processes and debates and see ourselves as social researchers with a resonance space – the DAZ – which may be a platform of expression and mediator.” (Mustar, curator and urbanist)

The German Architecture Center DAZ is an initiative of the Association of German Architects BDA. It is a laboratory of ideas, a place of exchange, mediation and debate.

The DAZ aims to feature alternative spatial practices: Humankind and the environment are placed at the center, architecture is seen in its complex social dimension and responsibility, and the city is considered as a reflection and negotiating surface for socio-cultural and political developments.

With exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, and conversations, topics related to physical and social space are initiated, addressed, and discussed. Projects are developed in intensive and interdisciplinary collaborations – with institutions and actors from architecture, art, culture and the urban design – to enable an expansion of knowledge and impact.

Team / Contact

GENERAL INQUIRIES
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 -0

ARTISTIC AND CURATORIAL DIRECTION
Laura Holzberg
Alesa Mustar

CURATORIAL ASSISTENCE
Tarek Megahed

PRESS AND COMMUNICATION
Daniela Jung
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 -28

RENTAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICE
Efgan Fahrali
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 -12

DEUTSCHES ARCHITEKTUR ZENTRUM DAZ
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 6
2. courtyard, entrance H1
10179 Berlin-Mitte

DAZ OFFICE
Entrance C, First Floor – c/o Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA

OPENING HOURS
Friday – Sunday, 3–7PM, during ongoing exhibitions

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How to get there

Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 6,
2nd courtyard, entrance H1
10179 Berlin-Mitte

Public transport:
DB Ostbahnhof
S3, S5, S7, S75 (Jannowitzbrücke, Ostbahnhof)
U8 (Heinrich-Heine-Straße)
U2 (Märkisches Museum)
BUS 265 (Michaelkirchstraße)
BUS 147 (Bethaniendamm)

Foto: Till Budde

Rent the DAZ

In the middle of the strongly developing area of the river Spree between Berlin Mitte and Kreuzberg, the DAZ is located in the immediate vicinity of the Radialsystem, the Heizkraftwerk Mitte, Spreefeld and the Ostbahnhof. On the site are offices of various architecture and engineering companies, design agencies and a restaurant with an outdoor terrace.

As an open house, the DAZ offers space for conferences, seminars, lectures and exhibitions with flexible and individually tunable infrastructure, covering around 210 square meters of public as well as private institutions and companies. Design your event at the German Architecture Center (DAZ), which offers a special setting with its central location and its program of events around architecture and the city.

If you would like to rent our rooms, you can contact Efgan Fahrali.

Rental and Technical service
Efgan Fahrali, Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 -12, M: +49 170 51 49 916