The Br\ue5ta Pavilion Report

This report has been made by JIG Design Ekonomisk F\uf6rening and Chalmers University of Technology for the municipality of H\ue4rryda. It is a preparative document for the design of a pavilion for the recycling centre of Br\ue5ta.Br\ue5tapaviljongen is a project initiated by the municipality of H\ue4rryda with JIG in collaboration with on-going research at the department of Architecture of Chalmers University of Technology and Mistra Urban Futures.This report aims to define functions and the approximate surface of the pavilion, as well as design strategies for the building to fulfil the overall vision. This document will become the base for the second phase of the project: the design development of the pavilion. The program is a starting point, establishing mutual understanding and is often adjusted according to discoveries and discussions madeduring the design process.This report consists of two sections: The first includes the design programme of Br\ue5tapaviljongen; the second includes a summary and an analysis of assessments of Br\ue5ta’s current situation and design proposals conducted by master’s students at the school of Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology, during a course entitled “Sustainable Building” in Spring 2014.This report is written in two languages: The programme is in Swedish while the summary of the student’s work is left in English in order to reduce the time needed to compile and produce this report

Regenerative Place-making

Increased population and movement in the age of unsettlement affects local cultural institutions, ecological constitutions and the ontological sense of belonging. These conditions are arguably influenced by the mounting waste produced by the throw-away culture of the age of the ephemeral. In these times of hypercomplex eco-socio-spatial relationships, there is a growing call to move beyond mainstream sustainability. It asks for a redevelopment of the understanding, and a new narrative, of the relationship between humans, nonhumans and ecologies. Cognitive sciences and narrative studies indicate that embodied experiences of physical environments, i.e. places, are crucial to how we understand, communicate and form relationships to other humans and nonhuman beings and things. This implies that there is a need for more and new types of places for new relationships and lived experiences in these hypercomplex times.Spatial designers influence the formation of places and use methods and expressions that have been correlated to narrative development. This study, therefore, aims to understand and develop a designerly interpretation of \u27beyond sustainability\u27. It does so through a theoretical and practical exploration of the implication of regenerative design principles for place-making. As a testing ground for this mode of working, it explores proto-regenerative places with public access. More specifically: place-making practices that try to make sense of, and adjust, people’s relationship to waste-making practices.To explore how waste-resource relationships could be of value for intersubjectively lived experiences of places, the study also develops a method, the directed d\ue9rive, to explore emergent phenomena of place. The study combines this exploration with a theoretical inquiry of regenerative theory. Results are the identification of possible characteristics and narrative elements of regenerative public places, as well as core principles and strategies of regenerative placemaking: regenerative eco-socio-techne; situated nonmodern narratives; empowering change. These, in turn, suggest a designerly approach to moving beyond sustainability

Regenerative Placemaking: Ecosociospatial practices beyond conventional sustainability

This study aims to understand and develop a designerly interpretation of the growing call to move beyond (conventional) sustainability that emerged in the late 1990’s. It does so through a theoretical and practical exploration of the implications of regenerative design principles for placemaking. As a testing ground for this mode of working, it explores publicly shared spaces that treat waste as a resource. More specifically: placemaking practices that try to make sense of, and adjust, people’s relationship to waste-making practices. Public space and waste management are generally considered to be on the opposite ends of the spectrum of what is to be seen and unseen in the built landscape. But as we move towards more regenerative modes of waste management, where waste is treated as a resource, human interaction with the conversion of waste into a resource becomes ever more present in societies and built environments. It is therefore relevant to investigate how spatial design can contribute to developing and supporting a culture and system of reuse.This design inquiry develops design theory, practices and places that communicate regenerative ways of relating humans, nonhumans, societies and ecosystems to each other through ecosociospatiality. It explores ways to foster a regenerative society through embodied encounters with spatial practices and places that foster such a mindset. It does so through pondering, experiencing and generating these types of places. It also does so by considering their implications for design thinking and spatial practices beyond conventional sustainability, i.e. the regenerative spatial practices and design thinking involved in regenerative placemaking and spatial design.The study identifies ecosociospatial forms and practices where waste-resource relationships are involved in spatial narrativity. It delineates the nonmodern ecosociotechnic ontology and approach that characterizes regenerative (design) thinking and practice, as well as its intersecting scales of application. It also suggests the implications of these for regenerative spatial poetics and in advancing discourses and enactments of sustainability through emotive forces and effective actions. The study does so by testing and developing research methodologies that fit into what could be considered a prospective method assemblage for design-oriented performative research

AHA! festival 2016

For the third year, the AHA festival investigates the meeting between art and science in a three-day event at the Chalmers University of Technology hosted by the Department of Architecture and the Department of Physics. An international festival intended to provide enlightening experiences, staging surprises, new thoughts and displaced perspectives that lead to alternative modes of thinking about exploring the world through art and science. We invite scientists (physicists, historians, astronomers, engineers), artists (dancers, musicians, painters, poets, acrobats) who reside in these borderlands and wish to share their vision and work. The key intention is to celebrate both art and science as key knowledge building devices.The first year’s theme ’Embodiment’ (2014) explored the body as our anchor in the world, followed by the 2015 theme on ’Numbers’, a delightful net we cast over the world. This year\u27s theme is ’Uni-verse,’ again a natural consequence of our interest in the relation between art and science. The elemental force that drives science as well as art is curiosity. Come be curious with us! During the festival we have chosen to divide the word universe into three: uni and "-" and verse. Uni means that something is combined into a whole. Verse means that we are turned in a direction, the origin of the word tells us that it is the plow that turns at the end of the field. And the dash "-" is all the spaces and cracks where new discoveries can grow. Art and science unfolds in the gap between what we know and what we want to know