The corona pandemic influenced our everyday practices, life-styles and notions of the city, our homes and our work places. While it has opened questions on: right to the city, inclusivity, inequalities of resources, home-ownership, rethinking the analogue and the digital, as well as personal reflections on spatial usage, questions on the post-crisis dynamics and what is yet to come remain open!  » More…

Students of the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU) in collaboration with the Architekturkollektiv Octagon explored the potentials of open spaces in Weststadt, a neighbourhood of Braunschweig built in the 1970s. The group or architects and urban designers developed a tactical urban design intervention with the aim of creating positive social impact in the area.  » More…

A look into the future in the here and now! In our Urban Design Studio WORLD=CITY=VISION you design spatial strategies for the city of the future and detail them in the urban design. How is this city shaped? Presentation of the final projects from the Master Entwurf during the Summer Semester 2020.  » More…

Countless cities and regions are threatened by natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis or hurricanes. Presentation of the pre-final projects, booklets and brochures developed in the Urban Disaster seminar during the Summer semester SoSe 2020.  » More…

From 20th-25th July the students from the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism will develop a spatial installation in Weststadt, Braunschweig together with the architectural collective Octagon.  » More…

Starting this week, we are embarking in the Summer Semester 2020 with the introduction meetings to the Master Entwurf: World=City=Vision, and the seminars Urban Disaster Studio and Sustainable Urbanism: A Critical Discussion of Theory, Visions and Design. Next week the students will be able to join the introduction meeting for the Vitapolis workshop.  » More…