A blended urban design workshop for international students from European schools of architecture.
A blended urban design workshop for international students from European schools of architecture.
The Urban Design Hackathon is a 24h online workshop for international students from European architecture schools.
Over its past three editions, we tested and successfully established a new format of digital teaching and international collaboration – despite the pandemic and without environmentally harmful air miles. Supported by technically advanced tools, the virtual room became a common ground for learning and intercultural exchange for students and academics from ten institutions across Europe.
Following the motto ‘Reanimate the dinosaur’, students are invited to develop future scenarios for obsolete structures in the urban environment. It is a novel approach, where the ugly and outdated buildings are not simply erased but valued for their grey energy and embraced as catalysts of a resilient and sustainable further development of our cities.
The object of the first Hackathon was the soon-to-be-closed Karstadt department store building in the lively district of Wedding, Berlin. In the second edition, students were asked to propose an urban transformation for Charité’s former animal testing laboratory, also known as “Mäusebunker.” Closing the Berlin trilogy, our third dinosaur was the parking garage of the now at a standstill world-famous International Congress Center – ICC Berlin.
The Urban Design Hackathon is an ongoing experimental project: as the zeitgeist changes, so does the format. After two years of online teaching, on its third edition, the Hackathon went hybrid, testing the contrast of a successive form, an online phase followed by a presential workshop in March 2022, the Bauhaus Spring School.
Architect Ludwig Heimbach and Photographer and Architect Kay Fingerle are active figures in the conservation campaign for the Mäusebunker and shared their knowledge and impressions of the building.
Was wird aus dem ICC?
https://vimeo.com/183193756
Ein UFO im Wartestand
https://vimeo.com/189288719
Big in Berlin
https://vimeo.com/44806711
Jung aber Denkmal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5D_CtgJxBY&ab_channel=LandesdenkmalamtBerlin
Impression: S-Bahnhof Messe Nord / ICC
Impression: Underground Messedamm
Impression: West Facade
Impression: Car Passage West – East
Impression: Pedestrian Passage
Impression: Parking Building
Impression: Messedamm
Impression: Pedestrian Bridge Messedamm
Impression: Messedamm / Neue Kantstraße
The Urban Design Hackathon is organized by the “Chair of Urban Design” of the Bauhaus University Weimar. It started as part of the “International Virtual Academic Collaboration” (IVAC) program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). It is now funded by “Stifftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre“.
Chair of Urban Design
Steffen de Rudder | Martina Jacobi |
Pola R. Koch | Stefan Signer
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6
2. OG, Raum 202
99423 Weimar Germany
This website displays external content from Vimeo.com.
The Bauwelt Magazine about the the second edition of the Urban Design Hackathon in the issue 10.2021.
The newspaper “Berliner Tagesspiegel” on the Karstadt Hackathon and the demise of city centers (17.4.2021)
The Bauwelt Magazine about the Urban Design Hackathon in the issue “Die handelnde Stadt”.
The Urban Design Hackathon is organized by the “Chair of Urban Design” of the Bauhaus University Weimar. It is part of the “International Virtual Academic Collaboration” (IVAC) program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6
2. OG
99423 Weimar
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 36 43/58 2601
e-mail: staedtebau1[at]archit.uni-weimar.de
e-mail: urbandesignhackathon[at]uni-weimar.de
All data on this website is for information purposes only. It does not claim to be complete or correct. We reserve the right to make changes.
Image Credits
The images on this page are in most cases protected by copyright. The source/copyright of the images is the “Chair of Urban Planning and Design” of the Bauhaus University Weimar, unless otherwise stated below.
Videos: Martina Jacobi
Mice Video by thiago rizardi from Pexels
Site Images: Martina Jacobi, Pola Rebecca Koch, Stefan Siegner, Felix Torkar, Denis Barthel
Images Project Stairway to Chicken: Patrīcija Helēna Dzērve, Noé Misson, Leila Unland, Toms Čudars
Images Project From Mono to Multi: Richard Corsyn, Eliza Anna Zeibote, Maximilian Schmidt, Laura Bertelt
Images Project The Ant(i) Mall: Gaultier Arnould, Laura Svede, Jasmin Min Chu, Corentin Generet
Images Project ShareStadt: Pauline Oldrizzi,Olivier Roulet, Jekabs Ozols, Florian Brettner
Videos Input Lectures: Karel Wuytack, Elisa Baldin, Ludwig Voz, Adam Peterkenne
Dinosaur Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com
Design: Leonardo Hermel
Technically advanced online teaching is offering a unique opportunity for international collaboration.
The Urban Design Hackathon is a 24h online workshop for international students from European universities. Following the motto „Reanimate the dinosaur“, students are invited to develop future scenarios for obsolete structures of the urban environment while testing a new format of blended learning and international collaboration – despite the pandemic and without environmentally harmful air miles.
Organization | International 24h Urban Design Hackathon
Architect | Reaserch and Teaching Assistant
Chair for Urban Design
Bauhaus University Weimar
Organization | 24h Urban Design Hackathon
Architect | Reaserch and Teaching Assistant
Chair for Urban Design
Bauhaus University Weimar
Organization | 24h Urban Design Hackathon
Architect | Reaserch and Teaching Assistant
Chair for Urban Design
Bauhaus University Weimar
Organization | 24h Urban Design Hackathon
BSc Architecture | E-Tutor
Chair for Urban Design
Bauhaus University Weimar
Deadline October 31.2021
Seminar Master and Bachelor final year Arch + Urb
6 ECTS
English
20 Final Years Bachelor and Master Students
4 – 6 from each University
Please send your application to urbandesignhackathon[at]uni-weimar.de
As part of the application process, we ask all participants to submit a 40-second self introduction video with the following information:
Meet and Greet
Fri 12.11.2021
16:00 – 16:15 Welcome / Opening
16:15 – 16:30 Tutorial BBB / Conceptboard
16:30 – 17:10 Micro-lectures
17:10 – 17:20 Break
17:20 – 17:50 Team Definition + Team Discussion
17:50 – 18:20 Team Presentation
18:20 – 18:40 Q&A
18:40 – 19:00 Meet up
* Access to cloud material
Urban Design Hackaton
Fr 19.11.2021
13:00 – 13:30 Welcome / Opening
13:30 – 14:00 Introduction / Task
14:00 – 15:00 Input Lectures
15:00 – 15:30 Q&A
16:00 – 00:00 Section 1
Sa 20.11.2021
08:00 – 12:00 Section 2
12:00 – 13:00 Feedback with Tutors
13:00 – 00:00 Final Section
Su 21.11.2021
13:00 – 16:00 Final Presentation
16:00 – 18:30 Discussion Round / Closing
Spring School Bauhaus Uni Weimar
10 – 19.03.2022
10.03 – 13.03 Weekend of cultural integration activities
14.03 – 15.03 Excursion in Berlin
16.03 – 18.03 Analog workshop in Weimar
19.03. Spring school closure activities
* costs covered by the Erasmus Programme