About Partners for a Sustainable Future
Project Managers Thomas Hilberth & Heidi Merrild
Project Managers Thomas Hilberth & Heidi Merrild
In Fall 2019, the Government allocated 1.5 billion DKK to green research from the research unit, and Aarhus School of Architecture has been granted two million DKK for pilot projects that can contribute to the green transition. At Aarhus School of Architecture five research projects have been selected to receive this funding. This research project is one of those five.
It is of paramount importance to collaborate to achieve any of the goals laid out by the UN’s sustainability development goals (SDGs). The objective of the research project is to encourage collaboration and interaction between academia, practice and stakeholders through collaborative research by design. It aims to establish a conceptual framework and organizational structure that enables a new mode of collaborative designs, that involves, connects and guides all stakeholders towards a stronger sustainable future.
We are aiming to find ways to integrate and make synergies in research and development from both academia, practice & stakeholders by disseminating knowledge to the public about what we do and creating create a platform bringing together students, practices and different stakeholders, from product manufacturers to municipalities. The project aims to strengthen and communicate TP3/Lab 3 as pioneering and innovative contributor to the green transition agenda through sustainable architectural research and teaching development.
We have created an interactive map that can be used by future collaborators and even by staff and students to see the network of research and collaborations we are involved in. In the coming semester we will to a higher degree focus on external partners and their competences within sustainability. The working approaches developed in the Lab and the Units/Studios will be collated into exhibitions, documentation and a website to be publicly disseminated.
All members of Research LAB 3
Teaching Programme 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture
Teaching programme 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture offers study environments that harness the school’s vision of Engaging Through Architecture and its three focus areas: transformation, habitation, and sustainability at both Bachelor’s and Master’s level. The programme has a specific focus on sustainability.
The programme is passionate about investigating and imagining architectural approaches to societal, climatic and environmental challenges in a rapidly changing world. We explore the making of space and our role within this process through emerging methods and tools both at different scales and in local and global contexts. We design for the needs and well-being of people, which is the foundation of a resilient and healthy environment.
Our emphasis is on examining how trans-disciplinary approaches involving anthropology, sociology, and psychology can qualify architectural design and how contextual influences such as politics, history, culture, ethics, climate/climate change, pollution, ecology, (scarce) resources, economy, technology, etc., can foster new qualities and imagination. These contextual influences inspire rather than inhibit architectural design.
In the Bachelor units, students are introduced to different analytical approaches, whereas the Master studios offer specialisation within different professional fields of architecture.
Teaching programme 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture consists of the following studio:
Research Lab 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture
Research Lab 3 is passionate about investigating and imagining architectural and spatial approaches to the societal, climatic and environmental challenges in a rapidly changing world. We explore the making of space and our role (as architects) within this process through emerging methods and tools both at different scales and in local and global contexts. Our emphasis is on examining how trans-disciplinary approaches involving anthropology, sociology and psychology can qualify architectural design and how contextual influences can foster new qualities and imagination.
[Radical] sustainability in architecture addresses architectural approaches to societal, climatic and environmental challenges in a rapidly changing world. This includes understanding architectures influence at both a global and local scale as well as the architect’s role within the complex process through emerging methods and tools within these different scales and contexts. Sustainability encompasses both wider social and environmental needs but also the needs and well-being of people which is the foundation for a resilient and healthy environment.
Within the school’s research and education, there is an emphasis on examining how trans-disciplinary approaches such as anthropology, sociology and psychology can qualify architectural design. As well as, how additional contextual influences (politics, history, culture, ethics, climate/climate change, pollution, ecology, (scarce) resources, economy, technology, etc.) can foster new qualities and imagination to enrich further and inspire rather than inhibit architectural design.
Associate professor Thomas Hilberth works as a coordinator in Research Lab 3.
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