PresentationXchange: International DesignBuildXchange Award 2024

All friends and members of DesignBuild projects and DesignBuildXchange platform, put 18th June 2024, 6 pm MET (Berlin time) in your calendar, when we will call to the virtual event ´PresentationxChange´ of the International designbuildXchange Award Winners 2024!

We are looking forward to new approaches to technology, sustainability, circular economy and scaling; to new focus areas such as social justice, interdisciplinary work and pedagogy; to new insights into funding, ethics and project evaluation.

The Call for Projects was open to DesignBuild projects that have been realized within the last three years (2020-2023) and are published on the dbXchange website. A total of eight projects has been selected for awards through a competitive juried process.

For the upcoming livestream we are happy to announce the winners and special mentions as speakers:

Winners
Impulshaus Prototyoe of an emergency home by Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (Austria)
Holt waters field Camp by University of Colorado Denver, College of Archxitecture and Planning (USA)
Freitreppe am Ebertplatz by Technische Hochschule Köln (Germany)
Environmental Science Lab by Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (Ecuador)
Forest farm in Buhweju by Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg & Uganda Martyrs University

Special Mentions
T-Lab Workshop and Research Hall by Universität Kassel (Germany)
Sugar roots farm by Tulane School of Architecture (USA)
Ithemba walkway by School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics (South Africa)

We´re looking forward for the Xchange and inputs!
The dbXchange-Team

Program

Tuesday, 18th June 2024,
6:00 pm MET (Berlin time)
Zoom-Link: https://zoom.us/j/98065372987?pwd=SWNOaFNkTmVsaUprUHVHTHFXaUk2QT09
Meeting-ID: 980 6537 2987 & Kenncode: 044963

6:00 pm Welcome and introduction by dbXchange members
6:10 pm PresentationXchange of the winners and special mentions (each keynote 10 min.)
7:30 pm Dialog and xChange with all speakers & jury
8:00 pm Closing of the event

Background DesignBuild projects

DesignBuild-Studio are a teaching and research model offering students the unique opportunity to
experience the different stages of a small, but real building project: from the initial design sketch to the
development of models and detailed drawings, all the way through the actual construction process to
completion of the built result.

Apart from hands-on building experience the students also learn how to deal with the budget, schedule and
unexpected obstacles, as well as to work in collaboration with others and communicate with real clients,
local authorities and material suppliers.

DesignBuild Projects are components of higher education in the field of built environment that allow
students to be physically involved in the materialisation of their designs. It takes students from their studio
desks into the physical world of human interactions and construction.

dbXchange Network and Host

The dbXchange platform and network addresses projects in the framework of academic education
with an emphasis on the built environment. The main aims of the platform are to exchange
knowledge and experiences on academic DesignBuild projects as well as to stimulate the
DesignBuild methodology.

The platform provides tools for supporting DesignBuild project workflows as well as access to
detailed information about the projects themselves, their related networks and
stakeholders.

www.dbxchange.eu
Questions
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