Introduction to WG 4
Gerald Leindecker
1. Aleksandra Djukic: Creative Innovative Methodologies in Teaching and Practicing Urban Design: Building Camp as a Result of Interdisciplinary Approach, Circularity and Participation
2. Aleksandra Stupar: INNOVATIVE PATHS TOWARD CONFLICT RESOLUTION? OVERCOMING URBAN FEARS VIA CIRCULAR PRACTICES
3. C. Lambis Baniotopoulos: Upcycling of Wind Turbine Blades to Modern Structures and Infrastructure in the Third World.
4. Renee Wansdronk: Zero emission building concept: The building concept knowledge development, and its dissemination and implementation
5. Onur Birol: Digital Twin Technology for Circular Heritage Restoration: Kremna Propylon
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We focus in the second and third year on case studies.
The case study should have at least one of the subtopics:
Creative solutions and technological innovation are situated between the following:
• visual art
•craftsmanship
• collaborative and circular design
•material and construction innovation
• urban landscape design
Mission of WG 4
The WG studies creative solutions for counteracting the heterogeneity of technology and its domination of the market towards a multiplicity of technologies. This pluralism can be obtained from drawing solutions in urban design and architecture developed in non-Western societies—what could be called 'slow technologies.' The WG aims also to explore social practices and philosophies that are connected to these technologies and to defend their interconnectedness for a better implementation. Practices situated between visual art, craftsmanship, collaborative and circular design approaches, and technological innovation on the level of materials, construction, and urban landscape—with the objective of more circular and green buildings and cities—fall in the scope of this WG that aims to explore them from a transversal, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal perspective and as bottom-up solutions. Finally, this WG maps the relevance of these practices for a societal transition towards more sustainable and circular thinking.
