Public lecture series FUSION Retrospectives starts on 17. 11.

The FUSION retrospectives in the winter semester 2021/22 will focus on the origins of the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning and the lasting impact it has had. Pioneers who were central to the development of the department's profile will present their positions and contributions in a retrospective of their work at the university and beyond. In conversation with guests and colleagues, they reflect on the place of architecture, urban and landscape planning at a reform university and in a society undergoing rapid change.

The public lectures always take place on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m., online via Zoom due to the pandemic: https://uni-kassel.zoom.us/J/97142526529?PWD=SVZZTG90OXC0R3ZFEHFDRNDFC2I3UT09.

Program, dates, more information can be found below, in the university's schedule  https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/veranstaltungskalender and at
www.uni-kassel.de/go/fusion

Contact:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Altrock / Dean
University of Kassel
FB 06 Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning
Department of Urban Renewal and Planning Theory
Tel.: +49 561 804-3225
E-Mail: altrock[at]asl.uni-kassel[dot]de

Stephanie Homeier
University of Kassel
FB 06 Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning
Communication
Tel: +49 561 804-7374
E-Mail: presse[at]asl.uni-kassel[dot]de

Wed, Nov 17, 2021
Experimental Building - Gernot Minke -  1974-2011
Interlocutor: Claus Anderhalten, Department of Design in Existing Contexts I FB06

Gernot Minke founded the research laboratory for experimental building in Kassel. His work in the field of green roofs and vaulted structures made of clay bricks and straw bales was groundbreaking. Against the backdrop of a comprehensive retrospective of his work and the many other approaches to ecological building methods that have since emerged, he discusses the prospects for sustainable architecture with Claus Anderhalten.

Wed, Nov 24, 2021
Urban Renewal - Christian Kopetzki - 1978-2005
Interlocutor: Uwe Altrock, Fachgebiet Stadt­er­neue­ rungund Pla­ nungs­theo­ rieI FB06

Christian Kopetzki was one of the first university lecturers to systematically deal with the requirements and varieties of dealing with existing neighborhoods between land redevelopment and cautious urban renewal. With his students, he has brought a variety of strategies for an alternative further development of Kassel into the public discussion. With Uwe Altrock, he discusses current trends in stock development in research, teaching and practice.

Wed, Dec 1, 2021
Environmentally Conscious Building - Gerhard Hausladen - 1992-2001
Interlocutor: Anton Maas, Department of Building Physics I FB06

As a university lecturer for technical building equipment, Gerhard Hausladen played a major role in the founding of the "Center for Environmentally Conscious Building", which has made significant contributions to research and further education in Kassel in the fields of energy optimization in buildings, building physics and the development of planning tools. With Anton Maas, he discusses the current challenges for promoting sustainability in construction from a technical perspective.

Wed, Dec 8, 2021
Landscape Architecture - Peter Latz - 1973-1983
Interlocutor: Wigbert Riehl, Department of Land­schafts­ar­chi­tek­tur I Tech­ nikI FB06

With his contributions to the Frankfurt Greenbelt and the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, Peter Latz still stands for a significant change in landscape architecture that has made disused industrial sites an integral part of the urban landscape in need of design. The design principles associated with this are still the inspiration for landscape architectural conversion of conversion sites around the world today. He discusses current development trends and design approaches with Wigbert Riehl.
 

Wed, Dec 15, 2021
Integrated Urban Development - Rainer Meyfahrt - 1974-1990
Interlocutor: Volker Mohr, Head of the Office for Urban Planning, Building Inspection and Monument Protection of the City of Kassel and former student of Rainer Meyfahrt

As one of the university teachers of the first hour, Rainer Meyfahrt explored the complex relationships between an integrated urban development and the manifold specialized planning and brought them to life for students. In Kassel, he is probably best remembered today for his commitment to an expansion of the tramway, which he then successfully pushed through for many years as managing director of the KVG. With his former student and head of the Office of Urban Planning, Volker Mohr, he discusses the role of integrated urban development for a sustainable transformation of the city, which he continues to advocate.

Wed, Jan 12, 2022
Designing in Urban Context - Elsa Prochazka - 1992-1996
Interlocutor: Verena Brehm, CITYFÖRSTER architecture + urbanism and former
V-Prof. Department of Urban Design / G-Prof. Department of Urban Interventions I FB06

Elsa Prochazka's multi-layered architectural work has left distinctive traces through urban planning works, public buildings, residential, office and industrial buildings, especially in the cityscape of Vienna, as well as through her multiple participations in the Venice Architecture Biennale. At the interface of architecture, urban planning and landscape planning, her field of expertise still represents an essential key to the conception of the discipline today. With Verena Brehm, she illuminates the role that urban context can play in architecture today and in the future.

Wed, Jan 19, 2022
Building Construction - Inken Baller - 1989-1996
Interviewees: Brigitte Häntsch, Department of Design and Building Construction and Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, Department of Design and Building Theory I FB06.

Inken Baller was the first appointed university lecturer in the field of architecture, urban and landscape planning. Initially known for the bold residential buildings she realized with her husband Hinrich Baller, she stands above all for innovative building construction methods, especially in the conversion of existing buildings, until today continue to be topical for resource-saving construction and use of materials in architecture. With Brigitte Häntsch and Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs she will discuss the current challenges of sustainable building and the contribution of constructive issues.

Wed, Jan 26, 2022
Digital Design - Marc Burry - 1998-1999
Interlocutor: Philipp Eversmann, Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction I FB06

The Gesamthochschule Kassel was one of the pioneers of digital design in Germany. Marc Burry, the first visiting professor in Kassel in this field, has made significant contributions to the realization of Antoni Gaudí's visionary ideas for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and has been involved in its structural implementation for many years. With Philipp Eversmann, he will discuss the status and perspectives of experimental design and construction methods in architecture.

Wed, Feb 2, 2022
Cooperative Planning - Ingrid Lübke - 1990-2007
Interlocutors :Ursula Stein, Hon.-Prof. Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Markus Leibenath, Department of Landscape Planning and Communication I FB06.

More than any other ideas, cooperative approaches have changed the theory and practice of spatial planning in recent decades. The dialogical departure from the "god-father-model" and the democratization intended by it has manifold facets and has occupied administration and politics from Aachen to Zittau at the latest since Stuttgart 21. Ingrid Lübke brought early experiences with integrated development and citizen-oriented planning from the Netherlands to Kassel and brought them to life in the city and university. Ursula Stein and Markus Leibenath will discuss how the increased demands of committed citizens can be reconciled with the requirements of action-oriented planning in times of housing shortages and climate change.

Wed, Feb 9, 2022
Kleinstmöglicher Eingriff - Bazon Brock - documenta 4-9
Interlocutor: Stefan Rettich, Department of Urban Planning I FB06

Bazon Brock, art theorist and art mediator, has given groundbreaking impulses in Kassel since the late 1960s with his "visitor schools" at the documenta to promote the understanding and appropriation of contemporary art by visitors*. As a contemporary of Lucius Burckhardt, he sums up his approach of the "smallest possible intervention with the greatest effects" and his life-reforming work in Kassel. With Stefan Rettich he discusses the references to current questions of a change in the perception of space and interventionist strategies in architecture and planning.
 

Wed, Feb 16, 2022
Reform University yesterday - today - tomorrow - Aylâ Neusel - 1986-1990 Vice President - Interlocutor: Ute Clement - President University of Kassel.

What role do architecture, urban and landscape planning play in the context of a reform university? Aylâ Neusel, who studied architecture, has been preoccupied with this question since the 1970s, when she played a major role in the conception of the Gesamthochschule Kassel. Not least our project studies still bear witness to the innovative spirit of those days. But what can the reform university of the 21st century look like and what role will Kassel play in it? Our new president Ute Clement discusses these questions with the university researcher and science manager.