Emergency Measures II - Studio as a Framework
Team: Benedikt Boucsein, Matti Drechsel, Matthias Faul

Briefs und Präsentation Sommersemester 2025

The studio takes place every thuesday in room 4120 from 11am to 5pm.

The kick-off takes place at thuesday 23rd. of April at 11 am

Call for Briefs:

BA-Thesis
BA-Studio 9ECTS + BA-Vertiefung 3ECTS
MA-Studio 

Emergency Measures – Nothing will be as before, and everything will be

The climate emergency, or more broadly the biosphere emergency, is not abstract anymore. Architecture and planning have been strongly involved in the development that led to the current situation, and mostly still are, directly or indirectly feeding the according narratives, or helping to ignore what is happening. But alternative movements are gaining traction, drawing strength from a long tradition of resistance and criticism in the discipline. These movements are very diverse, and they need to be, as the answers to the current crises are everywhere and nowhere: everything about the way we live will and has to change, while it must largely work with what is already there. We have to reinvent the new world inside of the old structures. And that includes studio teaching as well.
In our studio, we address this situation by offering a framework for ideas and initiatives that broadly encompass the horizon of urban design but can and should touch other disciplines, scales and approaches, as the world is entering unknown territories. We will create a studio environment where a variety of cases are discussed in depth, with different perspectives and aspects on the emergent conditions of the built environment. We will especially focus on "Bauwende", "Verkehrswende" and "Agrarwende", and support all initiatives that address them. We strongly encourage proposals that work with an emergency component. But they can also encompass “traditional” urban design and architecture, only with much less focus on the inherently destructive mechanisms that characterized these disciplines in the past.