Conference
sbe22 berlin as an entry point to global discussions on a local level
The sbe22 berlin will be hosted by the Institute of Architecture of TU Berlin which will provide a design-oriented, architectural and urban planning entry point to a broad, inter- and transdisciplinary debate on the following themes:
• resource management and material flows
• climate neutral buildings
• post-fossil infrastructures
• critical digitalisation and
• socio-political frames for transitions.
These themes represent key solution areas to address sustainability challenges within the planning and building sectors. The conference „Built Environment within Planetary Boundaries“ is to bring together and network the diverse communities of researchers, practitioners and decision makers to critically discuss cutting edge research as well as innovative policies and practice based on the planetary boundaries model. The conference will address different scales, disciplines and approaches ranging from material and product development, building design, structural engineering, urban and regional planning to innovative manufacturing processes and the design of circular value chains.
The sbe22 berlin D-A-CH conference is a collaborative project together with KIT Karsruhe, TU Graz and ETH Zürich.
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Technische Universität Berlin
Hauptgebäude
Straße des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin
The sbe22 berlin conference is located at the Main Building of the TU Berlin in Berlin Charlottenburg.
The location is best reached by public transport via the Tiergarten S-Bahn station or the Ernst-Reuter-Platz U-Bahn station.
20. – 23. September 2022, Berlin
sbe22 berlin will take place from 20 September to 23 September in Berlin. The first day is a pre-conference day, where participants can take part in various workshops related to selected pilot projects. This is to to make the topics of the conference tangible by means of concrete best-practice examples and stimulate dialogue. The opening day will be followed by two conference days, most of which will take place in the TU Berlin main building as well as at selected inner-city locations. The conference will take place as a hybrid event. A fourth day is optional and will be used to visit various locations and projects in Berlin and surrounding Brandenburg region.
Day 1 -
20 September 2022
Workshops and Roundtables
Day 2 -
21 September 2022
Conference TU Berlin
Day 3 -
22 September 2022
Conference TU Berlin
Day 4 -
23 September 2022
Technical Tours and Excursions
coming soon.
Rethinking circular principles indesign and construction processes
Responsible and intelligent management of resources used in the planning and construction sector is of increasing importance for climate-smart planning of the built environment. Planetary boundaries can be understood as a guide to ecological stress limits that are directly related to the occurrence and management of natural resources. For the necessary decarbonisation of the construction sector, sustainable resource management as well as material flows and logistics must be considered as a necessary overriding principle in the climate-just planning and construction process. This implies increased use of circular and naturally renewable raw materials with simultaneous transformation of resource management and certification systems, intelligent manufacturing processes that can save resources, and strategies for selective deconstruction and reuse of building materials.
Net-zero emission targets andmitigation strategies
The goal of reducing the immensely high direct and indirect CO2 emissions of the building sector can only be achieved by taking an integrative view of energy consumption and energy generation over the entire life cycle of a building or district. The field of climate-responsive energy systems includes the evaluation of embodied energy, therefore the sustainable transformation of existing building stock as well as low-tech design and construction principles and the targeted integration of renewable energies in planning and construction processes.
Natural systems and biodiversity inurban planning and design
For an ecologically valuable built environment that creates space for humans, animals and plants rather than it takes up and consumes space and resources, our physical infrastructures such as water systems, designed and natural green spaces as well as mobility and transport infrastructures need to be prioritised in sustainable planning and building processes. New and existing infrastructures must be designed, transformed and adapted to climate-friendly buildings, cities and settlements or even define the boundaries of planning.
Big Data in design and planning and planning
This solution field is about discussing and reviewing technologies and measures of digitalisation for their benefits in sustainable planning and building. A built environment adapted to the planetary boundaries does not necessarily require more technologies, but the effective or efficient use of only certain technologies to achieve climate action goals. The critical factor in the discussion about digitalisation in the building sector includes the costly consumption of resources for the production of digital tools, as well as the energy consumption for data storage, which is the basis of many technological solutions.
Governance models and actor networks
This Solutions Field aims at the organisational and action structures in the planning sector as well as their necessary development, reorganisation and adaptation to enable a climate-just development in the planning and building sector. This includes development-oriented and actor-driven approaches in planning, urban policy and urban management. Which models or practices are convincing with experimental, innovative or novel approaches at the interface of science, economy, politics, administration and civil society?
Rethinking circular principles indesign and construction processes
The Open Call for new topics addresses scientists that are researching in fields of sustainability and the built environment without matching one of the above topics. Here new topics as well as interdisciplinary approaches and other fields of expertise are welcome to broaden the horizon and integrate new questions in current scientific discourses.
July 2021
Call for Abstracts
October 2021
Abstract Submission
November 2021
Abstract Acception
February 2022
Paper Submission for Review
April 2022
Final Paper Review
June 2022
Final Paper Acceptance
Sepember 2022
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