Excursions: Partial Reimbursement Guidelines

Dear students,

You may now find the guidelines for the partial reimbursement process of excursions in the section „Files & Links“ under the folder DIA - Excursions: Partial Reimbursement Documents

You may also download the PDF from the following link: https://dia.incom.org/action/open-file/5138

Please make sure to read it thoroughly before going on the excursions, and ask your Studio Masters for further information.

We wish you a successful Excursion Week.
Best,
Your DIA Team

“structure & agency” a ‘Dessauer Gespräch’ with Cornelius Voss and Julian Meisen

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Founded in 2020 by Hans von Bülow, Julian Meisen, and Cornelius Voss, Common Agency explores new ways of producing space through the development, design, and realization of objects, buildings, and places. In response to a complex contemporary world, projects are approached holistically, integrating economic, ecological, social, and aesthetic aspects into the conceptual process from the outset.

The lecture will be held in German and translated into English.
It starts at 6.30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Date: April 23rd, 2025.
Time: 6.30 p.m.
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Further events in Summer Semester 2025:

May 07 DG regional / with Chamber of Architects Saxony-Anhalt

May 14 Kief-Niederwöhrmeier, Nuremberg

May 21 collectif studiolada, Nancy/ FR

June 04 Duplex Architekten, Hamburg

June 11 Fabian Onneken, KO/OK architecture

June 18 Inaugural lecture Prof. Julia Köpper, Urban Development and Structural Change

June 25 Inaugural lecture Prof. Bilyana Asenova, Building Theory and Design

“Sustainable urban development - ​​compact, networked and green” a ‘Dessauer Gespräch’ with Dr. Matthias Lerm

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“Sustainable urban development - ​​compact, networked and green” a ‘Dessauer Gespräch’ with Dr. Matthias Lerm, Dresden Office for Urban Planning and Mobility

„The future urban development of our cities and communities is coming under increasing pressure to act. For example, overlapping demands on resources and space, dwindling social bonds and the vulnerability of society due to increasing global warming make demands that rule out “business as usual”.

So that the answers to these questions contribute to sustainable urban development, the urban planning approach of a three-fold internal development is compared. Using good examples, the real estate benefits of building that are sophisticated in terms of building culture, correspond to the hotter climate of the future and contribute to successful community life in the city district with spatially effective structures are highlighted.

The lecture will be held in German and translated into English. 
It starts at 6.30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Date: April 16th, 2025.
Time: 6.30 p.m.
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Further events in Summer Semester 2025:

Apr. 23 Cornelius Voss, New office in Altona

May 07 DG regional / with Chamber of Architects Saxony-Anhalt

May 14 Kief-Niederwöhrmeier, Nuremberg

May 21 collectif studiolada, Nancy/ FR

June 04 Duplex Architekten, Hamburg

June 11 Fabian Onneken, KO/OK architecture

June 18 Inaugural lecture Prof. Julia Köpper, Urban Development and Structural Change

June 25 Inaugural lecture Prof. Bilyana Asenova, Building Theory and Design

FIX IT! - RENOVATION INSTEAD OF DEMOLITION

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In cooperation with Architects4Future, HouseEurope! and the BDA, the DAZ is presenting the special exhibition FIX IT! - RENOVATION INSTEAD OF DEMOLITION as part of the program accompanying the current exhibition „THE DEMOLITION QUESTION & POWER TO RENOVATION“.

On display are conversion projects from all over Germany that illustrate the potential of renovation and conversion and are part of the BDA's conversion atlas. The exhibition is complemented by (conversion) building materials made from renewable materials, a conversion workshop and field reports from Architects4Future Berlin.

The exhibition supports the appeal of the European citizens' initiative HouseEurope!, which calls for refurbishment and modernization to be prioritized over demolition and new construction in favour of more ecologically and socially effective building practices. Vote in the DAZ or online for this EU citizens' initiative.

You are cordially invited to the talk “HOW DO WE WANT TO REBUILD IN THE FUTURE?” on April 16, 2025 from 6 p.m. and to the subsequent OPENING.

PROGRAM 6 pm TALK with representatives of Atelier Loidl Landschaftsarchitekten, Supertype Group, Studio Tegel - Zirkuläre Tischlerei, Natural Building Lab (TU Berlin), Triodos Bank, moderated by Julia Shapiro (HouseEurope!)

7 pm EXHIBITION OPENING with Susanne Wartzeck (President BDA), Laura Holzberg (Artistic Director DAZ), Architects4Future Berlin

Image: Yellow Mesh / Design: Render-Manufaktur for HouseEurope!
Text by DAZ - Deutsches Architektur Zentrum

Updated Lists

The updated lists for Studios, Electives and CADLogic courses are now available on „DIA Organizational Matters“.

Please check out the schedule for further information about times and rooms.

Best,
Your DIA Team

Elective and CADLogic Lists are now online

In the „Files & Links“ Section, you may now find the first version of the Elective and CADLogic lists for the Summer Semester 2025.

We wish you a nice and productive semester.
Your DIA Team

Electives and CADLogic Selection Process - SuSe25

Dear DIA students,

In the “Files&Links” section, you may find the links to the Electives and CADLogic Selection Process.

They will be open from now, until 8:00 am tomorrow.

Best,

Your DIA Team

1st-Year Studio Lists - SuSe2025

The Studio lists are now available in the „Files&Links“ section of „DIA Organizational Matters“.

Check them out and make sure to join your Studio's workspace.

We've also uploaded an updated version of the compendium. It now includes the description of the German Language Elective for Erasmus -and beginners- (Level A1).

For the Electives and CADLogic selection process, please check the compendium and the schedule, to make sure that your desired subjects don't overlap with your Studios, or with other Electives/CADLogics.

The process is estimated to begin at 18:30 h. As we did yesterday, we'll also be publishing the links on Incom.

Best,
Your DIA Team

Studio Selection Process SuSe25

Dear DIA students,

In the „Files&Links“ section, you may find the link to the Studio Selection Process.

It will be open from now, until 8:00 am tomorrow morning.

Best,

Your DIA Team

"Burden and Pleasure in the Existing Stock" - a 'Dessauer Gespräch BDA' with Steffen Lauterbach + Uwe Zeh

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'Dessauer Gespräche BDA: 'Burden and Pleasure in the Existing Stock' with Steffen Lauterbach, architect BDA, arc architekturconcept Magedeburg/Halberstadt and Uwe Zeh, architect BDA, cuboidoo architects, Halle + Exhibition opening: Study Prize Konrad Wachsmann 2024

The lecture will be held in German and translated into English. 
It starts at 6.30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Date: April 2nd, 2025.
Time: 6.30 p.m.
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Further events in Summer Semester 2025:

Apr. 16 Dr. Matthias Lerm, Head of Office for Urban Planning and Mobility, Dresden

Apr. 23 Cornelius Voss, New office in Altona

May 07 DG regional / with Chamber of Architects Saxony-Anhalt

May 14 Kief-Niederwöhrmeier, Nuremberg

May 21 collectif studiolada, Nancy/ FR

June 04 Duplex Architekten, Hamburg

June 11 Fabian Onneken, KO/OK architecture

June 18 Inaugural lecture Prof. Julia Köpper, Urban Development and Structural Change

June 25 Inaugural lecture Prof. Bilyana Asenova, Building Theory and Design

UPDATE: Schedule

In the „Files&Links“ section, you will find an updated version of the Schedule for Summer Semester 2025. It now includes the names of the subjects, as well as the modules and categories of the Electives.

Please remember to check the Compendium and the videos created by the teachers before tomorrow's meeting, so that you're better informed about the subjects:

• Studios 1st-Year: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11646171
• Electives: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11646201
• CADLogic: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11646206

Finally, a reminder about the semester Kick-Off:
Place: AudiMax, building 08.
Time: 12.30 h.

After the introduction, we'll go to Café am Campus for our traditional meet and greet, where you'll have time to talk to the teachers and ask them further questions you may have about the modules.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Best,
Your DIA Team

Compendium - Version 2.0

An updated version of the Compendium is now available in the following link: https://dia.incom.org/workspace/3/files

Please also remember to visit our Vimeo account to watch the videos prepared by some teachers about their modules. The links can also be found where the Compendium is.

Compendium SuSe2025

The first version of the Compendium is now online. You may find it in the „Files & Links“ section of DIA Organizational Matters (https://dia.incom.org/workspace/3/files)

Please note that changes are still possible.

Spring Market at VorOrt 29.03.2025

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On March 29th, VorOrt wants to bring spring into their house together with you. Let’s enjoy a spring-like day full of craftsmanship, great people and good conversation with homemade pastries and drinks. The gates are open from 1pm.

OPEN CALL 
As every year, handmade art and designs can be offered for sale via your own stall or Druckbar. For more information and the deadline to set up or hand in your work, please contact @druckbardessau via dm on Instagram.

We are already looking forward to it!

“jetz's ma jut” | Final festival of the Young City Makers

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How do you revitalize empty city centers? Students from the Architecture and Design Faculties at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences have spent two years researching what inner cities affected by the donut effect need in order to remain vibrant and sustainable - on behalf of the city of Dessau Roßlau and the federal program Zukunftsfähige Innenstädte und Zentren. Now it's time to share the results and celebrate the findings! The research project says: „jetz's auch ma jut“. Whether it's vacancies in Dessau, a lack of vibrancy or insufficient support for volunteer projects - see for yourself.

When?
Friday, March 21st and Saturday, March 22nd, 2025.

Where?
Bauhaus Museum Dessau and Mitte, Pluspunkt, KiOSK and Werkstattcafé (Places of the Young City Makers)

Where is the city center here?

At a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a place to live in large cities, smaller towns are confronted with the opposite problem: Emptiness. According to the “donut effect”, this phenomenon begins in the core of city centers. In Dessau-Roßlau in particular, the reality of aging and out-migration is rapidly coming to a head.
Throughout Europe, however, innovative young projects are already looking for alternatives to meet this challenge. This is also the case in Dessau with the Young City Makers research project. 

Students from the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences' Departments of Design and Architecture conducted action research over two years and discovered how vacancies in Dessau-Roßlau's city center can be sustainably revitalized.

Three vacant spaces were transformed using different approaches: an urban living room, a street gallery and a bizarre space. They show how liveliness and community can be fueled by involving urban society and through design.

The final festival presents and reflects on the findings of the Young City Makers together with representatives from the city, administration, politics and universities. Two days of lectures, discussion panels, workshops, city rally, party & concert.

Register now for free, take part and check out the entire program!
jetzsmajut.de

Texts: Wenncke Hamann

Critical Sustainability Course at TU Berlin

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The highly interactive course Critical Sustainability is the compulsory module of the TU Berlin's Sustainability Certificate and is being offered as a block week for the first time - The course is taught in German, but all levels of German knowledge are welcome to participate.

Participants actively shape the course from the very first minute. Through artistic and scientific educational formats, they repeatedly come together with other people in numerous individual, small and large group works. At the same time, students develop their own intervention research project in fixed small groups.

The Critical Sustainability course thus offers a space to overcome isolation, promote interdisciplinary exchange and take action. Together, the participants analyze the interdependencies between technology, the individual, nature, society and democracy (TINS_D) across all disciplines - and democratize them through individual and collective interventions.

Students from all degree programs and colleges/universities are cordially invited. They contribute their different professional knowledge and expertise, as well as their fundamentally different personal perspectives and backgrounds. Together, they will scrutinize their understanding of sustainability and, in particular, expose existing social power and nature relations. This forms the basis for actively contributing to the socio-ecological transformation of society. Critical theory and radical theories of democracy form the theoretical basis for the course.

The registration deadline for the course is March 16th 2025, and a confirmation of registration will be sent out on March 17th.

Text: André Baier

IMPORTANT:

Please note that this course is offered by another institution. Any questions regarding the registration process, participation, methodology and contents, have to be addressed directly to TU Berlin.

Acknowledgement of credits would only be possible for the amount of credits of one elective (3 credits), and only if the necessary documents certifying the successful completion of the course are presented.

Critical Sustainability
Block week + 2 x 2h video conference
Campus of the TU Berlin
Monday, 07 to Friday, 11 April 2025
09.00 to 17.00

https://www.tu.berlin/km/n-zertifikat/kritische-nachhaltigkeit

Exhibition: "The Demolition Question & Power to Renovation" // 14 March - 18 May 2025

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Motif: Neustadt (2021) by Julius von Bismarck and Marta Dyachenko
Photography: Henning Rogge / Emscherkunstweg

The exhibition ‘’The Demolition Question & Power to Renovation‘’ approaches the still all too present phenomenon of demolition and its consequences from different perspectives.

While „The Demolition Question“, curated by Alexander Stumm, shows around one hundred buildings in Berlin, Kassel, Munich and the state of Brandenburg that have recently been demolished or are threatened with demolition and analyses the consequences of this practice anchored in fossil modernism, the film project „Power to Renovation“ by HouseEurope! illustrates that, in addition to resources and energy, large amounts of affordable housing are also being destroyed. This makes the issue of demolition one of the central challenges of our time.

You are cordially invited to the opening on Thursday, 13 March 2025 at 7 pm.

From April, ‘’The Demolition Question & Power to Renovation‘’ will be complemented by the special exhibition ‘’Fix It - Renovation instead of Demolition‘’, curated by Architects4Future in cooperation with the Association of German Architects BDA and supported by the Allianz Foundation.

The exhibition and accompanying events are open to the public and can be visited without registration.

Further information at https://www.daz.de/de/abrissfrage-renovation/

Text: Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ

Reduced DIA office hours this week

Dear All,

Due to various circumstances (illness, vacation) we regret to inform you that the DIA office will only be open on Thursday with Heike this week during the normal office hours. We hope to be there for you with our complete team from March 3.

Thank you for your understanding.

Heike Kleine

DIA acadmic coordinator

SAVE THE DATE: Summer Semester Kick-Off

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Enjoy your semester break, rest and recharge your batteries for an exciting Summer Semester 2025.

We're looking forward to seeing you again in April!

Further details about the semester kick-off coming soon to Incom.

OPEN CALL - IMAGINE THE FUTURE New ideas for Wittenberg's old town center

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Do you have an idea for Wittenberg's city center?
Do you want to try out which visions for city centers are fit for the future? 

Our city centres urgently need to change in order to cope with social change, digital transformation and climate change. That's why Stadtlabor Wittenberg is funding at least five ideas for a sustainable city center this year with up to €25,600. The call is aimed at individuals, associations, institutions, retailers, schools, students, collectives and anyone else who cares about the future of our cities and our coexistence. The ideas can relate to public space, a vacancy or the further development of existing shops and facilities for the common good. All further information can be found HERE. (The information is available in German, but auto-translate tools give you a very good translation to English)

As part of the federal program ‘’Sustainable inner cities and centers‘’ of the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building, the Stadtlabor Wittenberg deals with experimental and sustainable approaches to inner city development.
All information about Stadtlabor Wittenberg can be found here: www.stadtlabor-wittenberg.de 

Texts and images: Stadtlabor Wittenberg