PROMISES UPON REQUEST

Growing climate awareness puts architects in a position to comply with more and more specific demands from society, targeting the core of the profession from the outside. In response to these demands, positions emerged within the discipline, promising sustainable approaches to ecological resilience, social inclusion, and economic responsibility.

The symposium brings together experts from practice and academia to establish a platform for dialogue and debate: we want to investigate the challenges these promises face rather than the promises themselves. We want to get behind and ahead of assumed value changes and new conventions. The symposium will be streamed live, and a final protocol transcript will be released shortly after its closing.

Program:

October 20, day one
10–10:30am: Intro

10:30am–12:30pm: Promises Upon Request
Simon Hartmann, HHF / KIT—Why Promises?, Mariana Santana, HHF / KIT—Promised, Federico Coricelli, KIT—Promises of Symposia, Marc Angélil, AGPS / ETHZ (M)*, Anna-Maria Meister, KIT

2–4pm: The promise of participation
Jane Hall, Assemble / EPFL, Tiago Mota Saraiva, ateliermob / FAUL, Anna-Maria Meister, KIT (M), Maroje Mrduljaš, University of Zagreb

4–4:30pm: Intermezzo
Dirk Hebel and Ludwig Wappner. Book presentation, Sortenrein Bauen, moderated by Christian Inderbitzin.

5–7pm: The promise of climate design
Philippe Rahm, Philippe Rahm Architectes / GSAPP, Charlotte Truwant, Truwant + Rodet + / EPFL, Joaquín Medina Warmburg, KIT (M), Georg Vrachliotis, TU Delft

October 21, day two
10am–12pm: The promise of circularity
Jan de Vylder, AJDVIV / ETHZ, Kerstin Müller, baubüro in situ / Zirkular / KIT, Mariana Santana, HHF / KIT (M), Marc Frohn, FAR / KIT

12–12:30pm: Intermezzo
Marc Angélil, On errors

2–4pm: The promise of agency
Dijana Vučinić, DVARP / KIT, Nanne de Ru, Powerhouse Company, Angelika Hinterbrandner, KNTXTR / ETHZ, Federico Coricelli, KIT (M)

4–4:30pm: Intermezzo
Lars Lerup on his forthcoming book Distance with Marc Frohn and Simon Hartmann

5–7pm: The promise of form
Christine Binswanger, Herzog & de Meuron, Mark Lee, Johnston Marklee / GSD, Marc Angélil, AGPS / ETHZ, Simon Hartmann, HHF / KIT (M)

7pm: Closing party

*(M) = Moderator

The symposium is organized by the Chair of Bauplanung und Entwerfen, Prof. Simon Hartmann, Federico Coricelli, and Mariana Santana.

For further information contact bauplanung [​at​] kit.edu.

About the department
The history of the department dates back to the founding of the University of Karlsruhe in 1825. The tradition of the Karlsruhe department of Architecture includes numerous wellknown names: from Friedrich Weinbrenner and Johann Gottfried Tulla to Heinrich Hübsch and personalities such as Egon Eiermann, Fritz Haller and Dieter Kienast. Today, 22 professors and a broad-based teaching staff guarantee practice-oriented and contemporary teaching for the approximately 1,000 students.

Visit the website for more information and the streaming link.