15:00 Admission
15:30
Welcome Address: Petra Schaper Rinkel, Rector of the University
of Applied Arts Vienna
Introduction by Lukas Allner, Institute of Architecture,
University of Applied Arts Vienna
MATERIAL
What opportunities do nature-based building materials offer for decarbonization, resource conservation, and the
creation of healthy living spaces? What is their design potential? What are their limits?
15:45 -16:45 WOOD
Keynote: Yves Weinand, IBOIS
Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Thomas Mennel,
architect and researcher, Schwarzenberg, Austria
16:45-17:00
break
17:00 -18:00 NATURAL AND NATURE-BASED MATERIAL,
MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION
Petra Gruber, Institute of Architecture, University
of Applied Arts Vienna
Ken de Cooman, BCmaterials, Brussels, Belgium
18:00-19:00
Panel discussion with the 4 speakers of the session block “Material”
moderated by Christoph Kaltenbrunner, Institute of Art Sciences and Art Education, University of Applied
Arts Vienna
Saturday 14/10/2023
ECOSYSTEMS
How can we integrate living organisms into buildings and cities?
What do they do to mitigate climate change on the one hand and for adapting to its effects on the other? What do they mean
for human recreation and biodiversity?
10:00 -10:50 BUILDINGS
AS BIOTOPS
Frédéric Chartier, ChartierDalix Architectes, Paris, France
Doan Thanh Ha, HPA Architects, Hanoi, Vietnam
11:00
– 11:50 DESIGN WITH NATURE
Louise Fiil Hansen, landscape
architect, SLA Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark
Marialuisa Borja, Al Borde,
Quito, Ecuador (tbc)
12:00 – 13:00
Panel
discussion with the 4 speakers of the session block “Ecosystems”, moderated by Tülay Atak, Institute of Architecture,
University of Applied Arts Vienna
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
TRANSFORMATION
Buildings and cities are ecosystems that change over time.
Following nature’s example – what processes do we need to initiate and encourage to keep the environment adaptable and vibrant?
14:00 – 15:00 NEIGHBOURHOOD REGENERATION, SMALL INTERVENTIONS
Yuma
Shinohara, curator at Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Oana
Stancioiu, nonconform, architect, Vienna, Austria
15:00 – 16:00
CITY REMEDIATION, NEW ECOLOGIES
Rikke Juul Gram, Schønherr
landscape architecture, Copenhagen
Susann Ahn & Thomas Hauck, landscape
architecture/animal aided design, Freising and Vienna, TU Wien, Austria
16:00
– 17:00
Panel discussion with the 4 speakers of the session block “Transformation” moderated
by Robert Korab, Raum & Kommunikation GmbH, and TU Wien, Austria
17:00
Closing words by Doris Österreicher and Lukas Allner
Organized and curated by Karin Raith and Lukas Allner, I oA, University of Applied
Arts Vienna, moderated by Doris Österreicher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
