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 Urbane Gärten
Seminar Week „The Edible Unseen“ 10.-13.06.2025

We are thrilled to welcome our students to seminar week “The Edible Unseen” and want to extend our gratitude to our partners from Junge Architektur Karlsruhe (https://www.junge-architektur.de/) and Urbane Gärten (https://urbanegaerten.org/) for an exciting kickoff meeting. We look forward to exploring some of Karlsruhe’s “backsides” and discussing the students’ intervention suggestions to transform those hidden spaces into visible, edible open areas. The seminar results will be presented by the students on Friday, the 13th, at 3:00 PM at the Urbane Gärten Studio on Kaiserstraße 209 (am Waldhof). 

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9th Hochschultag: Urban Practices of Transformation

On June 5–6, 2025, the 9th Hochschultag of the National Urban Development Policy will take place in Berlin. Under the motto “Acting Together – Urban Practices of Transformation,” students, researchers, and practitioners will engage in workshops and discussions on the role of academia in shaping future cities.

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Excursion Bachelor Studio
BA4 is on the move

The BA4 students started their first urban planning design studio, “Transformation and Urban Renewal in Knielingen, Karlsruhe”, with two excursions to both the planning site and to some of Karlsruhe´s interesting buildings, housing projects, public spaces, and green areas. 

We wish them luck for the upcoming semester and look forward to discussing their design ideas and development concepts for the eastern part of Knielingen. 

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Congratulations to our Graduates!

We congratulate our graduates on successfully completing their master’s degrees. All projects were addressing relevant topics in urban development, such as the renewal of the city centre in Pforzheim (Aurélie Pha), the Ecological Transformation of Karlsruhe (Gorkem Yagmur Yuksel), the built heritage of the Olympic Games in Sarajevo (Karla Jukic), and developing spaces of integration for the arrival of refugees (Magdalena Hehnen) – well done! We wish them all the best for their future!

Fieldtrip, Ettlingen
Fieldtrip to Ettlingen

The master students of the design studio Blue-Green Transformation started the semester with a field trip to Ettlingen, exploring the potential of the Alb Valley and spinning mill area. During this semester, the students will work together with the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources.

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Welcome to the Team!

We are pleased to announce that our team at ISTB is complete! Susanne Rettmar as secretary and Johannes Hermann (former graduate from KIT!) as academic assistant have just started with the summer semester. Welcome and it’s great that you are with us!

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Course program summer semester 2024 now online!

The courses for the upcoming semester are online as of today. Here you can view the scheduled events and find the link to the corresponding Ilias course content.

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Basel Theses published

Universities as resources for a transformative planning culture. The "Basel Theses" from April 2024, emphasize the key role of universities in promoting a transformative planning culture. They call for interdisciplinary education for future planners, active involvement of universities in societal discourse, and stronger networking between research and practice. The goal is to shape cities and regions to be future-proof, resilient, and sustainable.

 

Read it now in the "PLanerIn" or under

 https://dasl.de/basler-thesen-zum-8-hochschultag-der-nationalen-stadtentwicklungspolitik/

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Advance notice DASL SummerTALKS

As a continuation of last semester's successful cross-university event, the lecture series “Gemeinsam Wirken - Urbane Praktiken des Wandels” will take place next summer. The lecture series is part of the research seminar offered at the professorship in the summer semester, but is open to anyone else interested in cities.

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Prishtina, Master Studio Presentation
Final Presentation MA Urban Design Studio, Prishtina: Transform to Resilience

The final presentation on February 20, 2025, marked the end of an intense and insightful semester. The students presented their final designs, showcasing the diversity of their approaches to the complex challenges of the transformation of Matiçan. A particularly enriching aspect was the participation of guest professors Sharif Kahatt and Meti Spahiu. Sharif Kahatt, an architect and professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, contributed his expertise in sustainable urban development. Meti Spahiu, an experienced urban planner from Kosovo, enriched the discussions with valuable insights into local transformation processes. Their feedback and perspectives gave the students new insights and comprehensive feedback on their projects.

Prishtina, Master Studio Presentation
Final Presentation MA Urban Design Studio, Prishtina: Transform to Resilience

The final presentation on February 20, 2025, marked the end of an intense and insightful semester. The students presented their final designs, showcasing the diversity of their approaches to the complex challenges of the transformation of Matiçan. A particularly enriching aspect was the participation of guest professors Sharif Kahatt and Meti Spahiu. Sharif Kahatt, an architect and professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, contributed his expertise in sustainable urban development. Meti Spahiu, an experienced urban planner from Kosovo, enriched the discussions with valuable insights into local transformation processes. Their feedback and perspectives gave the students new insights and comprehensive feedback on their projects.

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Kick-off Meeting of the Second Phase of Cities.Building.Culture

On February 14th, the kick-off meeting for the second phase of the Cities.Building.Culture project took place in Karlsruhe. We were delighted to welcome colleagues from GWZO Leipzig and RWTH Aachen, as well as a special guest lecturer, Prof. Thomas Will.

Under the title “The Residential Built Heritage of the Soviet Union in Times of Multiple Crises,” the research consortium will continue its work for another three years. The meeting concluded with a walk through the transformed Alter Schlachthof area in Karlsruhe.

More about the project: https://cities-building-culture.com

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SAVE THE DATE! Urban Transformation - Connecting Urban Sustainablity Labs

The conference will take place in Karlsruhe from October 15-17th, 2025, as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of the KIT and the Science Week "City of the Future", is aimed at both academics and practitioners. If you are interested, please submit your abstract by February 17th.

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Metropol.X: Kharkiv

The results of the seminar Metropol.x_Kharkiv present different facets of the Ukrainian city, right at the border with Russia. It is the second-largest city in Ukraine with a population of about two million, before Russia's war of aggression broke out. As one of the most important scientific, industrial, trade, and transportation centers of Ukraine, Kharkiv has played a significant role in the nation's history. The booklet is available at the chair.

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Collective Housing as social Infrastructure. The architecture of neighborhood units in Lima

Guest Lecture: Sharif S. Kahatt

Thursday, January 23, 17:30 at "Grüne Grotte", KIT, Faculty of Architecture, Englerstr. 7, Karlsruhe, Professorship of Building and Architectural History / Professorship of International Urbanism.


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Season's Greetings & Happy New Year!

Stegreif - Weniger und Mehr! 18.12.24 - 13.01.25

In order to reduce emissions and conserve resources, it is necessary to align urban planning with the sustainability strategy of sufficiency and to consider how less can be enough. Simplicity and renunciation do not necessarily mean a poorer design or less high-quality urban spaces, but rather offer potential for livable neighborhoods that are suitable for everyday use. As part of the Stegreif project, an urban development concept for a mixed-use district with high-quality open spaces is to be developed.

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Opening Exhibition Studio Freiburg December 13th at Architekturforum Freiburg

What does the future of Freiburg's city center look like? How can it be better connected with the neighboring urban spaces - spatially and functionally? What measures can be taken to adapt the city center to the climate transition? Students from the Chair of International Urban Planning and Design and the Institute of Transportation addressed these questions in the summer semester 2024. In cooperation with the city of Freiburg, they developed forward-looking and experimental design approaches with new programmatic and traffic planning perspectives.

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Basler Thesen
Basel Theses published!


How can we make better use of universities as resources for a transformative planning culture?

This was the subject of discussions at a conference in Basel this spring, as part and continuation of the 8th University Day - the result is the publication of the Basel Theses, which set out approaches for teaching and research. The print version is now available at the Chair.

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Trilateral Urban Design Workshop in Prishtina

The master students of the design studio Transform for Resilience: Civic Infrastructure in Matiçan, Prishtina, are currently participating in an urban design workshop in Kosovo with students from Prishtina and Odessa. During the intense one-week workshop and excursion, they will conduct on-site analysis and work on preliminary design concepts for the district Matiçan, which has been undergoing rapid and uncontrolled development in the last 15 years.

Study Award for Malik Al Bosta


Malik Al Bosta received a grant from the Ruth and Erich Rossmann Foundation for his master's thesis "Informal Urbanism", which he completed in SS 2023. The prize supports outstanding graduates for further study or participation in a workshop abroad. Malik will attend a summer school at the AA School of Architecture, UK. We warmly congratulate!

Echoes of Soviet Urbanism. Exploring Modernist Narratives

The book presents 13 'district stories' from seven post-Soviet countries, written by experts from a variety of disciplines, including architecture, urban and regional planning, public policy and social sciences, and human geography. The authors take a critical look at various aspects and discuss the housing heritage from different perspectives. They present observations of spatial, social, and functional transformations as well as of the formal and informal frameworks, planning strategies, and concepts that lie behind the physical development.

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Welcome to the new fall semester 24/25!

As of today, the courses for the upcoming semester are online. Here, you can view the scheduled events and find the link to the corresponding ILIAS course. We are looking forward to meeting you at the one or other class and wish you a good start in the new academic year!

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Modern Housing Postwar - Cities of Tomorrow?

On the occasion of "60 years of Halle-Neustadt," an ETOM NEB Lab Milestone-Conference in the framework of the "New European Bauhaus" with a focus on Modern Housing postwar in Central Europe took place in Halle on October 14/15. The chair ISTB contributed wiht a report, presenting nsights from its currently running living lab in Tbilisi.

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Residential Heritage: Soviet Morphotypes and Typologies

From October 8th to November 12th, the exhibition "Residential Heritage: Soviet Morphotypes and Typologies" can be seen at BHROX bauhaus reuse, Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Berlin. The exhibition, which was developed as part of the research project "cities.building.culture", shows the Soviet residential heritage in its various urban and typological forms - from 12 districts in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

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Transformative Cities Fall 2024 - Remote Lab of Urban Planning

We are welcoming our new partners at the Remote Lab of Urban Planning - the National Aviation University, Lviv National Polytechnic University, O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv! The project, funded by DAAD, was launched in 2022 as cooperation between Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. This online lab offers students from Ukraine a unique educational experience - in the upcoming fall semester with a focus on urban resilience and urban transformation in Eastern Europe.

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Studio Context : Final presentation

Congratulations on the successful presentation of the BA 4 Studio Context. Our thanks for the support as guest critic go to SaeBom Song, who enriched the discussion with interesting perspectives. The students' projects offer innovative design concepts to three sites in Heilbronn dealing with the challenges of planning within existing urban textures.

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Panel discussion 10th of July

As part of the lecture "Reading the city. Shaping the city", guests were invited to a round table discussion at the end of the semester. Nadine Georgi from Planschmiede Hansert & Partner, Markus Kaltenbach from berchtoldkrass space & options and Felix Maier from the Regionalverband Mittlerer Oberrhein discussed the current challenges in urban planning. They provided valuable insights into everyday planning from very different perspectives - thank you very much!

Soviet Heritage in Times of Multiple Crises

We are happy and proud to announce that our application "cities. building. culture. The Residential Heritage of the Soviet Union in Times of Multiple Crises" was accepted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research! Together with GVZO Leipzig and RWTH Aachen University and our international partners we will develop approaches for a resilient, sustainable urban development in Ukraine, the Caucasus and the Baltic States - from October 2024 onwards for the duration of 3 years.

Executive Board of DASL in Karlsruhe

The executive board of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL) met in Karlsruhe on June 14th and 15th. The agenda included the exchange of information about the activities of the local groups and institutes as well as discussion of the further development of the DASL, including scientific orientation and internationalization. The meeting was rounded off with a walk around the city of Karlsruhe.

New Edition of Metropol.x out now!
Metropol.X: Brussels

The results of the seminar Metropol.x_Brussels present different facets of the Belgium capital. Causes and symptoms of segregation in Molenbeek, the importance of the Expo on the transportation infrastructure and the food culture are only some of the various topics that are discussed in individual maps, elaborated by the students. The booklet is available at the chair.

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Poster Living Lab `The Green Superblock´
Living Lab 'The Green Superblock' opens in Tbilisi

On May 25th our Living Lab will open in Tbilisi. Together with our partners, Ilia State University from Tbilisi and Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture we will establish an experimental dialogue in order to discuss the possibilities how to improve the living environment in the neighborhood of the Vazha-Pshavela Block VI.

For more information visit www.greensuperblock.com

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Website under construction

Over the next couple of weeks you will see some changes around the website as we are rearranging our content. While we are trying to make those changes unnoticeable in the backend, we want to apologize in advance if you have trouble finding what you are looking for. Thank you for your patience!

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Second Review Studio Context

On June 18th, the second mid-term presentation of the urban design studio "Context" in Heilbronn took place. The students displayed their conceptual approaches, discussed the suggested goals, and presented their first design ideas. We are grateful to our guest reviewer, landscape architect Jan Dieterle, for his valuable critiques and are looking forward to seeing the studio's final results.

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ISTB Threshold Talks - opening talk

We want to establish a new series of inter disciplinary discussions about how we teach, learn, design, acknowledge, and live in the ever-changing urban landscape. The format is an open invitation for everyone wishing to discuss the city. At changing intervals, discussions will occur where each talk sets the theme for the following. The first session will be held on Tuesday, the 12th of December, in room 107 at building number 11.40 (ISTB offices).-->

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Field Trip Tbilisi

The students of this semester's Design Studio are currently working in teams together with students from Odessa and Tbilisi on a 5-Day workshop at Ilia State University in Tbilisi. Besides visiting the design site they are meeting local professionals to hear from their unique perspective and are now challenged to develop concepts for a possible future development of a soviet modernist neighborhood.-->

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Exhibition URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS LAHR

The student projects from the BA 4th semester will be exhibited on Rathausplatz in Lahr from 10.11. to 26.11.2023. The task for the students was to develop proposals for the transformation of three areas that fit into the context and create a variety of uses and urban density. How can buildings be responsibly converted, repurposed and redensified? What opportunities for mixing uses are conceivable and appropriate? The results demonstrate experimental design approaches with new programmatic and typological perspectives.-->

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Semesterplakat WS 23/24
Course program winter semester 23/24 now online!

The courses for the upcoming semesters are online as of today. Here you can view the scheduled events and find the link to the corresponding Ilias course content.

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Pin-Up II - MA Studio

The master students currently enrolled in our urban studio presented their current work's status in the second mid term presentation. The evaluation of the analysis and excursion to Tel Aviv resulted in various approximations of the heterotopian urban landscape of the planning area which in turn led to different strategic approaches and conceptual ideas. As part of our productive cooperation with the city, we were joined via zoom by architects Avia Ben-Yakar and Alon Matos, head planning coordinators in the urban planning department of Tel Aviv-Yafo, who provided the students with additional professional feedback and valuable insights for the design steps ahead.

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Pin-Up II - BA Studio

The next milestone was reached in the studio: the 2nd pin-up was successfully completed by the students. Between conclusions of the analysis and creative solutions for the urban transformations in Lahr, different approaches were chosen. Many thanks to Wolfgang Borgards from K9 Architekten in Freiburg for his support as guest critic. We are looking forward to the further elaboration of the projects!

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Seminarwoche
Seminar week 2023 - Best of

We want to change the world. Roughly speaking.

During the seminar week, we reflected together: How can we actually change the world? By dreaming and courageously thinking ahead, we can sketch utopias as well as dystopias. We can also get involved in political debates, get loud, demonstrate and make ourselves heard, get involved in existing initiatives or create - there are numerous possibilities. The results the students came up with can be found here ...

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Greetings from Tel Aviv

As part of our cooperative urban design studio "Manshiya-Heterotopias", students from the Chair for International Urban Planning and the Institute for Transport Studies are taking part in an eight days excursion to Tel Aviv, Israel. Besides exploring the design site, we meet local urban and mobility planners, architects, urban activists, and NGO representatives. Amongst others, we discussed current urban renewal projects in the city with local players, like the recent opening of the first light train line in the city, and the gentrification of slums neighborhoods. We are gathering first-hand information and formulating an overview of the planning complexity that can be sensed currently in almost every corner of this multifaceted city on the Mediterranean shore.

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Large Housing Estates under Socialism

The book "Large Housing Estates under Socialism" by Barbara Engel and Nikolas Rogge is now available via open access. Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts. The contributors present experiences and perspectives from different disciplines on sustainable development of mass housing districts, both in academia and practice.

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Stegreif
Stegreif City Concepting

Our Stegreif in the summer semester: City concepting in 3 minutes

Convincing designs do not need long explanations, but can be explained briefly and concisely in sketch form and in just a few words. You have exactly 5 index cards and 3 minutes to convince the members of the planning committee.

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Congratulations to our successful Graduate!

We congratulate Frederik Johann on a very successful master's degree! His thesis "City and Water - Concepts for a Resilient Neighborhood in Paris" addresses the highly relevant issue of increasing heavy rainfall events and their consequences for sealed urban spaces. He has analyzed flood protection concepts in various cities and, based on this, developed solutions for water-resilient neighborhoods. In Ivry-sur-Seine he finds a very subtle, natural-looking way of dealing with the existing buildings. There are innovative symbioses of different uses and unexpected experiences of special landscapes. The work is not only a valuable contribution to building on the water and with the water, but also to continue to build, to sensibly rebuild, and supplement existing neighborhoods - a contribution to sustainable urban development that is not only water-resistant but also armed against other crises.

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Manshiya-Heterotopias Excursion to Tel Aviv

An online event with further information regarding the planned excursion to Tel Aviv will be held today, Tuesday, April 11th, at 6:00 PM. All interested are invited to join.

Looking forward to seeing you!

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Lehrveranstaltungen Sommersemester 2023
Course program summer semester 23 now online

The courses for the upcoming semesters are online as of today. Here you can view the scheduled events and find the link to the corresponding Ilias course content.

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Remote Lab of Urban Planning

The second Remote Lab of Urban Planning, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), has started. Based on the successful cooperation in 2022, new collaborative teaching activities will take place in 2023. Thematic focus is the built heritage. The offered courses include a series of lectures, the seminar "Metropol.x_Lyiv" and a design class. On March 3rd, Prof. Dr. Halyna Petryshyn, head of the Department of Urban Planning at Lviv Polytechnic National University, joined the seminar with a guest lecture about the historical evolution, current urban-planning situation, and perspectives for the further development of Lviv city.

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War in Ukraine - prospects for the interdisciplinary post-Soviet urban research

International Symposium & Workshop, Feb. 22nd-24th, 2023

The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine affects interdisciplinary post-Soviet and post-socialist/Eastern European urban research. As an international academic community researching in this context, we have perceived these events as highly critical, which urged us to initiate a platform for identifying short- and medium-term research perspectives and exploring new possibilities for research dialogue with colleagues from the post-Soviet and post-socialist/Eastern European space. The symposium supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, aims to offer a constructive and open atmosphere to reflect on and systematize the consequences of the current developments for interdisciplinary urban research related to Eastern Europe.

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Metropol. X Tel Aviv
Now available: Metropol. X Tel Aviv

Tel Avis's development presents a multifaceted story: This booklet examines the different urban layers of the city and the way they reflect the social, cultural, and economic structure of Israeli society in one of the most expensive cities to live in.

Now available at our institute!

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Welcome Hannam University!

Our guests from Korea have arrived in Karlsruhe!

The professors and students of Hannam University in Daejeon, South Korea will join us in an international design workshop. We are looking forward to spending the upcoming weekend with them and hope that they will enjoy their time in Germany. Welcome to Karlsruhe! We are happy to have you!

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The Duality of East Asian Urbanism

Friday, January 13th, 18:30 o'clock at Grüne Grotte

We are thrilled to announce Professor Han Pilwon is holding a lecture on Korean urbanism as part of our Cooperation with Hannam University. The lecture will be the kick-off event of the visit of our korean colleagues here in Karlsruhe. Afterwards we will be having a German-Korean evening with impressions of the excursion to South Korea.

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Stegreif
Stegreif: January 13th-16th, 2023 - Apply NOW!

Workshop with Hannam University South Korea

The task is the individual interpretation of public spaces in Karlsruhe. You should demonstrate the spatial qualities and atmospheres, whether with sketches, collages, models or videos. The Stegreif will be organized as a workshop in cooperation with students from South Korea.

If you are interested, please send an email not later than Friday, December 16th to barbara.engel@kit.edu
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Remote Lab of Urban Planning and Design

The Remote Lab of Urban Planning and Design "Resilient Cities" has launched! Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) an online teaching cooperation with Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (OSACEA) is organized for BA and MA students of OSACEA. In focus of the teaching program in fall semester are several aspects of urban resilience, which are reflected in different courses, such as a lecture, a seminar, and a design class, guided by a KIT-OSCACEA team of international teachers.

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Wettbewerb gestartet! Student:innen Förderpreis 2023

For the 22nd time, the BDB is awarding the "Student:innen Förderpreis" to offer students a special platform. Prizes are awarded for student work in the fields of buildings, construction, engineering structures and urban planning that demonstrate exemplary and sustainable solutions for the development of construction in our time. The prize is endowed with 5.200 euros. You can still submit your work online on the BDB website until March 31st, 2023!

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Congratulations on your Master's degree!

Maren Hentschel's Master's thesis "X-Change Tegel-West" and Nadine Georgi's "Arbeit/s/Landschaft" (Work/s/Landscape) from the summer semester 2022 dealt with current future trends and the resulting demands on urban and rural spaces. How can spatial offers be created for the exchange of all city dwellers in the knowledge society?

PhD School „Heritage at Home“

PhD School "Heritage at Home", taking place September 26-30. online. The conference discusses interdisciplinary perspectives on the heritage of residential districts in the post-socialist / Soviet cities.

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open lab aktuellesAnnette Gerteiser / Paulina Hipp
Find out more now!

The subject of the Open Lab is free design work on various topics. The tasks on a topic related to the city are freely selectable or can be formulated within the framework of the chair's subject areas...

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Daegu WorkshopHonghwan Lee
Workshop Results + Field Trip

The South Korean city of Daegu has set itself ambitious goals for its future development and has launched a student competition in which several universities from South Korea and KIT students are participating. Forward-looking urban planning concepts...

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Departure for Daegu!

The students of the Master's program left with us today for Daegu. A twelve-hour flight lies between Karlsruhe and Incheon Airport in the Seoul metropolitan region, from where we will travel on to Daegu by express train...

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Studio Kontext Final Presentation

Congratulations on the successful submission of the BA 4 Studio Kontext. Our thanks for his support as guest critic go to landscape architect Stefan Helleckes, who enriched the discussion with interesting perspectives. The ten projects this semester deal with properties next to the railroad line on Durlacher Allee, in Bulach and on Stuttgarter Straße in Karlsruhe.

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Reclaiming the public space

As part of the seminar "Discuss Oststadt. Rückeroberung des öffentlichen Raumes 2", two parklets were built in interdisciplinary teams. The pictures show the tour on 01.08.2022, which was also met with great enthusiasm and interest by local residents....

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Guest lecture by Iman Baratvakili

As part of a long-term partnership with Iran university of Science and Technology we gladly invite you to a lecture presenting the results of a two years research project on housing typologies in Tehran, Iran. The evening is organized in cooperation with Iman Baratvakili, who is ...

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The Most Popular Housing in Metropolitan Cities

We are happy to announce that PhD candidate Hee Jae Lee will be joining us for tomorrows pinup of the Master Studio Regenerating Daegu. Afterwards he will be holding a lecture about the Korean Apartment Building and its skyrocketing popularity in metropolitan areas.

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Diskussionsrunde zum Thema "Stadt lesen. Stadt gestalten"
Discussion round on urban development in Karlsruhe

On July 6, as part of the lecture series "Stadt lesen. Stadt gestalten" Prof. Dr. Anke Karmann-Woessner, Head of the Urban Planning Office, Philipp Krass, Partner at berchtoldkrass space & options, Karlsruhe and Philipp Staab, academic assistant at the...

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Stegreif

Spoken language or written texts play an important role in the professional field of architects - this should be trained as part of the Stegreif "City Writing". 19 students took part and wrote their story about Karlsruhe...

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Welcome to Karlsruhe!

Dr. Nadiia Antonenko, born 1987, Senior Lecturer at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, is coming to Karlsruhe for a one-year research stay. She will be part of the BMBF research project "cities. building. culture...

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Metropol.X
Now here: Metropol.X Daegu Publication

Daegu is the fourth largest city in South Korea after Seoul, Incheon and Busan. It is located in the south-east of the country and has over 2.5 million inhabitants. Dageu was historically known as "Apple City" or "Textile City" ...

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MA Stegreif - Neuer Ausgabeort und Termin!

The date for the issue of the task is postponed to 23.05.2022 at 16:00 via Zoom. The previous location and the date on 24.05.2022 are therefore no longer valid for the issue! Click here to go directly to the meeting (Meeting ID: 673 4129 3324 / identification code: 238198)

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PIN UP 1 - BA Studio

The first milestone was reached in the studio: the 1st pin-up was successfully completed by the students. The problems and opportunities of the areas were analyzed and the first creative approaches for the districts were presented. We look forward to working on the projects!

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CBC Talks
From Socialist Planning to Investor Urbanism - Recent Revival of Socialism's Abandoned Renewal Plans in Budapest

On May 24 at 18:00 (CET) Dr. Daniel Kiss will hold a lecture as part of our research project Cities Building Culture. Based on the case study of a deteriorated neighborhood's protracted redevelopment in Budapest...

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2022 Daegu International Urban Design Workshop

Professor Han Yoel Baek and Sanghyun Lee from the Department of Urban Design at Hannam University in Daegu are holding a lecture today as part of this semesters Master Studio Regenerating Daegu.

A very warm welcome to Karlsruhe!

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Congratulations on your Master's degree!

The master's theses of WS 21/22 "Orte der Integration" by Alina Koger and "Stadt. Raum.Wissen" by Pia Thissen dealt with current social developments and the resulting demands on urban spaces...

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Community Parks as Medium for Cultural Expression with reference to Cairo Egypt

On March 16, Mohammad Emara successfully defended his dissertation "Community Parks as Medium for Cultural Expression with reference to Cairo Egypt". The work derives functional and design aspects from the cultural characteristics of the society....

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Regenerating Daegu - International Competition

In the coming summer semester, we will be offering a design studio in Daegu as part of the Master's degree program. We are looking for forward-looking ideas for an industrial quarter in the field of tension between preservation and renewal. The design takes place within the...

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Call for Applications

Within the frame of our collaborative research project "cities.building.culture" the Call for Applications for the PHD School on September 24th to October 2nd has been announced.

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Entwurfspräsentation des Masterstudios „Produktives Heidelberg“, WS 21/22

On February 17, the design presentation of the master studio "Produktives Heidelberg" took place. Together with Mr. Holger Hoffschröer from Reicher Haase Assoziierte and Mr. Andreas Menker from the Heidelberg City Planning Office, 7 project works were...

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Seminar "Discuss Oststadt"

The presentation of the results of the "Discuss Oststadt" seminar took place on January 4th. The ideas were discussed in a final discussion with guests from the citizens' association and the Karlsruhe urban planning office, among others, and the students were given new ideas for the further development of the projects...

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Round Table
Conference Knowledge Needs Space

On January, 28th/29th, took place the Conference "Knowledge needs Space. Challenges and Perspectives of Future Living Environment" - with inspiring reports and vibrant discussions. We would like to thank all speakers and participants for their valuable contributions!

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Metropol.X: Beriut

Beirut, 5000-year-old layered city, had been built, rebuilt, and redefined over the centuries by the flow of goods, people and ideas. In 1920, Beirut became the capital of Greater Lebanon under French mandate, and in 1943, that of the independent...

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Final delivery Produktives Heidelberg

On Thursday, February 17, the final submission of the master design "Produktives Heidelberg - commercial areas in transformation" will take place. Guest critics are Holger Hoffschröer from the planning office RHA Reicher Haase Assoziierte GmbH and Andreas Menker, Heidelberg City Planning Office, Urban Development and Conversion Department.

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Dreisam Boulevard
Dreisam Boulevard: Exhibition of student works

Period: Mon 20.09. - Sat 25.09.21
Opening: Mon 20.09.21, 18:00
Location: Zentrum Oberwiehre (ZO) Freiburg

You can find the flyer for the exhibition here

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Mitarbeiter gesucht
Academic employee (50%) wanted

You can find the job advertisement here


Please send your application by 20.06.2021 as a PDF by e-mail (max. 10 MB) to barbara.engel@kit.edu

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Conference Dialogue on Large Housing EstateNikolas Rogge
Conference Dialogue on Large Housing Estates

Apply Now Submission of Abstracts until January 31st 2021

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City Concepting
MA Stegreif: City Concepting - Results

Developing concise ideas and clear concepts are fundamental to successful design work in architecture and urban planning. The impromptu course aims to train conceptual design work.

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Metropol.X: Odessa

Large settlements from the 1960s and 70s pose both more qualities and problems than apparent on first eyesight. The political and economic system, the state socialism, had a huge impact on the appearance, structure and urban and spatial qualities...

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Metropol.X: Odessa

Odessa, with over one million inhabitants, is one of the most prominent cities of the Ukraine. Directly located at the north west coast of the Black Sea it is the main administrative, cultural and trade center of the Odessa Oblast and has been a...

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Zukunft Wohnen Daegu
'Future Living - Daegu 2035+' postponed to SS 2022

Die Veranstaltung am 17.11.2020 wird abgesagt.

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City-Concepting
Stegreif City Concepting: Presentation of the results

Stegreif presentation on 09.12. at 15:00

Zoom

Meeting ID: 675 9693 3682
Identification code: 439308

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Gastvortrag
24h im Leben eines Freiraums: Guest lecture

Guest lecture on Wednesday, 02.12.2020, 12:00 noon.


Request access data by e-mail: moran.lev@kit.edu

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MA Stegreif: City Concepting

Output: 24.11.2020, 14.00, Zoom
Zoom meeting ID: 657 7387 3247, without password


Submission: 08.12.2020, upload to ILIAS until 16.00
Presentation: 09.12.2020, 15.00, Building 11.40, Tulla-Halle / or online if necessary


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Glorious Hubs
'Glorious Hubs - Mobilität neu denizen' meeting announcement

Am 19.11.
14:00 - Vortrag "Mobility hubs"
15:30 - Vortrag "Region Stuttgart"

Am 20.11.
13:30 - Input-Vortrag "IBA Region Stuttgart27"

 

Meeting-ID: 631 7807 3561
Kenncode: 625740

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Gesamtinfo Lehrprogramm WS 20-21
General information on the teaching program WS 20/21

The information is available here.

ISTB Konsultation 2020
ISTB consultation on 20.10.2020

Consultation on all courses of the Chair of International Urbanism will take place on Tue, 20.10.2020, 5 pm via ZOOM will take place.

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The teaching program WS 20/21 is online

In diesem Sommersemester steht Belfast im Mittelpunkt des Lehrprogramms. Dazu bieten wir das Masterstudio mit Vertiefung an, welche in Kooperation mit Studio Vallebuona stehen. Zudem gibt es wieder ein Seminar, einen Workshop und einen Stegreif. Außerdem gibt es einen Diskurs in Karlsruhe, Krasnorjarsk und Kharkiv.

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Stegreif Ergebnisse
Results of the Stegreif: City Concepting - in Corona times

"A day in the life of..." maps daily life and the use of urban space in two different realities: before and during the Corona period.


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Stegreif: City Concepting - in Corona times

Developing concise ideas and clear concepts are fundamental to successful design work in architecture and urban planning. The Stegreif course aims to train conceptual design work.

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Workshop and MA Studio FUTURE LIVING: DAEGU 2035+ have been postponed

Today's date is canceled, further information will follow.


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Masterarbeit WS 2019 /20ists-kit
Academic employee wanted

We are looking for a new colleague from 01.08.2020 to work in teaching and research, the conception and supervision of designs, exercises and projects, as well as seminars in BA and MA.


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Mass Housing in the Socialist Cities

Mass housing in Germany, Russia, and Ukraine represents an enormous volume of housing today and therefore a huge resource for the future development of cities. But transformation of these prefabricated districts from the 1960s and 1970s is needed...

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Lecture: Eric Firley Zwischen Zyklus und Realität

Urban development as a recurring pattern of innovation

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Tehran Excursion

Information meeting May 30

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Master consultation


23.05.2017 17:30h

Building 11.40 // R009

St. Petersburg

Workshop and excursion

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Urban Mobility in Russian cities

Conference

September 22nd / 23rd

Irkutsk, Russia


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hotspot: green line

Stegreif Beirut

Diploma / Master

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Space Hacking

International Summer School

August 4 - 9, 2014, Brno, Czech Republic

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Urban Affairs

Perspectives on international urban development

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Barbara Engel

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Study visit to Irkutsk 2015

3-5 month study visit to Russia

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Diploma Potsdam

Identity through imitation?


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Freies Diplom
Free diploma topic

Kaliningrad competition

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Metropol.x

Lecture on 07.11.13 as part of the metropolitan seminar

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Infoveranstaltung
Info event

on the deepening of urban development on 04.11.13

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Winter University Baikal

30.01. - 24.02.2014. Apply now and take part!

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Architecture and Urbanism after Crisis
New Babylon - Architecture and Urbanism after Crisis

International Symposium from 31.01. - 01.02.2013 at the KIT in Karlsruhe.

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Istanbul excursion

As part of the Studio Re-Thinking TokIstanbul, the stba organized a one-week excursion to Istanbul.

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Made for Marxloh

"Made for Marxloh" touring exhibition opens in Duisburg on June 11, 2012
With financial support from "Immeo Wohnen", it was possible to ...

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Logistical landscapes

Panel discussion with Alex Wall on May 3, 2012
The Department of Architectural Theory at KIT is organizing a panel discussion with guests. ...

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stba international

Exhibition 19.04.12 to 02.05.12

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Basaksehir

A new religiosity, a new middle class and a new town

Guest lecture by Ayse Cavdar, Istanbul.

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