The final reviews of the Professorship of Architecture and Design will take place during an all day event at the Pavillon 333.
LIVING LAB is practice-based project format, in which students develop systems for regional value chains in material and construction. This knowledge is transfered into prototypical applications in architecture. The LIVING LAB is characterized by field research, project-based organisation and design-thinking methods. The project takes place in close cooperation with regional project partners from the public sector, the building industry or cultural institutions.
For the design studio WOOD OBERPFALZ we team up with the new cooperative Holzversorgung Oberpfalz eG. The aim of the cooperative is to organise the supply chain, starting with the local forest farmers, the sawmill, to the local carpenter. Thus generating fair pricing in the entire value chain as well stabilising the supply of wood products. The students immerse themselves in the everyday practice of the individual nodes in the supply chain, enter into direct dialogue with the stakeholders from politics, forestry and the construction industry, learn to understand process flows and operational planning, and are enabling to identify possible opportunities in the system.
In collaboration with the design agency Living Systems we translate the experience and knowledge into transferable local architectural applications. We develop specific designs from the existing context and materials on site. During visits to forest farmers, sawmills and carpentry shops, the students conduct field research on site and precisely analyse the system of the supply chain. The local experts are in direct exchange with the students. How can dependencies on the timber industry be reduced and regional production potentials strengthened? What does sustainable and contemporary forest management look like? Using design-think methodologies, students develop viable ideas and solutions based on the collected assumptions and observations and materialize and implement them in architectural applications.
11:00 WELCOME
Prof. Niklas Fanelsa
Professorship of Architecture and Design
SYSTEMS
Material Cycle - KnoWood Oberpfalz
Certificates - A walk through the Jungle
Business - Circular Economy in Oberpfalz Investigative Logistics - The Transparent Regionality
12:30 PROTOTYPES
Wood Center Oberpfalz Workshop: How to Circulate Forest Conversion HOLZWe.G.
Workshop: Wood Waste
13:30 BIO-BASED MATERIALS
Talk with material designer Sarmite Polakova, material researcher Petra Rüther, and entrepreneur Marlene Stechl
16:00 TIMBER TABLE
Discussion about regional value chains in Bavaria with Hans Urban, Ursula Sowa Bay. Landtag ”Bündnis 90 die Grünen”/ Hugo Wirthensohn „Holzforum Allgäu“/ Forestry Company Director, Markus Dollacker / Adrian Blödt “Holzversorgung Oberpfalz“, Silvio Mergner ”Bayerische Staatsforsten“ / Prof. Dr. H. Röder “Cluster Initiative Forst und Holz“ / “ProHolz Bayern“ / and more
17:30 VERNISSAGE
Exhibition Résumé and Aperitif
When
08.02.2023, 11-19h
Where
Pavillon 333