Designmai: SYMPOSIUM DESIGNCITY - Build or die, constructing survival May 19, 2006

TOPIC 1: SHELTER ARCHITECTURE / Prof. Eckhart Ribbeck, Stuttgart university, Institute of urban development on urban planning in the developing world / Lukas Einsele, Berlin/Mannheim, ?one Step Beyond ? The Mine Revisited? on his art project reporting about landmines and their victims / Prof. Mel Byars, Holon Academy of Design, Tel Aviv, on innovative materials and saftey objects. Prof Byars is the author of ?Encyclopaedia of Design? by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. / Christoph Johnen, Red Cross Headquarters, department of Desaster Management on organisation of emergency shelter-building in desaster areas / Jerszy Seymour, Designer in Berlin, developed emergency shelters on the base of a polyurethane foam machine with superior thermic and static features on perspectives of unconventional shelter construction / N.N. on legal questions related to emergency shelter-building / Moderation: Georg Christof Bertsch, Frankfurt/Main / Conceived by Georg Christof Bertsch, Oliver Vogt for Transform-Berlin e.V.
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