FUSION less: A plea for less | Veit Wolfer

With Veit Wolfer, Tenements Syndicate

Common good instead of profit - Shaping urban transformation with solidary and cooperative models

Veit Wolfer is an urban designer and teaches at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and at the Department of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel. He is a consultant in the Mietshäuser Syndikat for Northern Hesse as well as part of cooperatively organized cultural initiatives such as "WERK eG - Haus Neuer Arbeit" (Hamburg) or "WH22 von Viele für Viele" (Kassel). He is interested in the design of processes as well as participatory planning and monitoring of public welfare-oriented spaces of cultural production and communal living.

FUSION Wi­Se 2022/23
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The climate, biodiversity, and energy crises are forcing us to radically question current building practices. Fusion Conversations 2022/23 introduces actors who are using unconventional concepts and ideas to advocate for a true building and mobility turnaround, other forms of city and landscape, and contemporary teaching. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the ASL department, Fusion continues the long tradition of progressive ecological positions of the University of Kassel and updates them for the present. less: is a plea for less: less cars, less demolition, less concrete, less CO2, less environmental destruction, less sealing, less exploitation, less capitalism. The role of urban and architectural professionals will change dramatically in the coming years. To ensure adequate education, we need more courage for experiments, interdisciplinary teaching concepts and a de-hierarchization of structures. The Fusion Talks want to unfold a utopian potential and give courage to change things ourselves.

Fusion 2022/23 is conceived and organized by the student project group Less:ON and the FG Architectural Theory and Design.

Wednesdays between 7 and 9 pm, 26.10.22 - 01.02.23
Room 106, new building ASL, Universitätsplatz 9, Kassel. Free admission. The event is recognized by the Chamber of Architects as continuing education.

Zoom livestreaming is available for each event. https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb06/oeffentliche-veranstaltungen/fusion

FUSION: Öf­fent­li­che Vor­trags­rei­he - Po­si­tio­ns to Ar­chi­tek­tur, Stadt und Land­schaft

Scientists, planners and designers invite to the public lecture series Fusion in a weekly rythm to report about their work with special regard to their position on architecture, city and landscape and to discuss with the guests. Within the framework of Fusion, newly appointed professors and guest lecturers give their inaugural lectures.