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BuildDigiCraft – public online lectures

14 - 18 June 2021

We would like to invite you to the following public online lectures.

The lectures are taking place between June 14-18 as keynote lectures within the third training programme of the ERASMUS+ project "BuildDigiCraft: New Mindset for High-Quality Baukultur in Europe".
The Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk Tech is a co-organizer of the event and a member of the BuildDigiCraft project consortium.

Below is an active link for all meetings (the same Zoom webinar invitation is valid for all lectures):
https://hcu-hamburg.zoom.us/j/81192072409 

webinar ID: 811 9207 2409
kenncode: BDC_ISP3

Programme

Monday, June 14 2021, 9:00-10:00 AM CEST

Jüri Soolep, Estonian Academy of Arts
Digital Disturbing Delight

Jüri Soolep is the Head of Doctoral School in the Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts. He has been Professor in NC State European Center in Prague, Czech Republic and Guest-Professor in Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden. He has been the Rector of the Nordic Academy of Architecture as well as dean and professor of the Faculty of Architecture in the Estonian Academy of Arts. He has lectured in the universities of Tartu, Oulu, Porto, Cork, Portsmouth, Liverpool, and Hosei Tokyo. Jüri Soolep is in the editorial board of journals Ehituskunst and ArchiDoct and has been a member of steering boards for Strong Research Environments ResArc and Making within Swedish Research Council Formas grant.
Since 2001 he has been the partner and lead architect in the architectural studio AB Medium. Most of his designs are built in Pärnu and Tallinn.

The recent book: Architecture, Imagospheric Horizon and Digital Universe, Archimedium 2018

His current field of research includes studies in the representational systems of architectural phenomena in the Digital Age.

Tuesday, June 15, 9:00-10:00 AM CEST

Jörg Noennig, HafenCity Universität in Hamburg
Digital City Twins: Urban Analysis and Anticipation

Prof. Jörg Rainer Noennig, PhD Eng. (*1973) is Professor for Digital City Science at the HCU HafenCity Universität in Hamburg and also directs the WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture at TU Dresden. From 1992 to 1998, he studied architecture at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Polytech Krakow and Waseda University Tokyo.
Between 1998 and 2001 he practiced as an architect in Tokyo. From 2001 he was the Research Associate at TU Dresden, where he was appointed Junior Professor for Knowledge Architecture (2009-2015).

His research focuses on digital cities and interactive, co-creative spaces from architectural to urban level.

Wednesday, June 16, 9:00-10:00 AM CEST

Lauri Tuulberg, CEO of Welement
Prefabricated Craftsmanship

The construction industry is facing huge problems. Productivity is low, there is a lack of skilled labor and it is a major contributor to the facing climate disaster. To meet the growing demand and lower the cost, we need to build more with less time. But can digital tools and automation solve the problem or do we need to rethink how we approach the whole value chain? Does it make sense to bring robots to the construction site, and will automation drive out skilled craftsmen?

Studied Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management at Hong Kong University and Civil Engineering at TalTech. Has worked as a site engineer and project manager on projects ranging from large-scale apartment buildings to tunnels and private villas. Been part of real estate development projects from preliminary architectural design to client hand-over and ownership stages. For the past 5 years mostly been involved with managing Welement AS.

Thursday, June 17, 9:00-10:00 AM CEST

Henric Benesch, University of Gothenburg
On Situated Knowing, Digitalisation and Two Burning Buildings

Henric Benesch is an architect, educator and researcher with a PhD in Design, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ongoing inquiries include:

  • Curating the City (together with Ingrid Martins Holmberg, Clare Melhuish and Dean Sully), addressing environmental and cultural heritage dilemmas posed through and over time in built environment through site-based methodologies,
  • The Right to Design (together with Onkar Kular), rethinking design education and design learning within and beyond its institutional and professional setting, in relation to "rights" and as a form of readership, as a mean to foster and claim more sustainable ways of life.

Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design at the University of Gothenburg as well as co-coordinator within the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS), and since September 2019 – Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg.

Thursday, June 17, 2:00-3:00 PM CEST

John Ochsendorf, MIT Architecture
Building from History for a Low-Carbon Future

John Ochsendorf is the Class of 1942 Professor of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, where he directs research on preindustrial construction traditions. He is the designer of numerous award-winning structures internationally and is the author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010).
Ochsendorf is a partner in the firm ODB Engineering and he served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 2017-2020.

Friday, June 18, 4:00-7:00 PM CEST

Didzis Jaunzems, Didzis Jaunzems Architecture
Coming soon