urban RESET conference

The current urban age is a triumph of quantity. Nowadays more than half of the world's population lives in urbanized realities, which in most cases don't match with the textbook world of urban design at all. On the other hand the last decade's hysterical economic boom has accelerated the emergence of the global star architect taking care of the wealthy islands in the urban archipelago. In the long run, both trends don't seem to offer any promising perspectives of the urban age. The conference urban RESET looks for alternatives and finds them in the existing urban patterns and their inventive rereading through architects, urban designers, landscape architects and planners. It emphasizes the necessity of thoughtfully designed urban environments and beliefs in the genuine and indispensable contributions of urban architecture to this challenge. urban RESET's key measure of success is its factual impact on urban everyday life. urban RESET likes to know more about the conditions, potentials and prerequisites of successful design and planning. It adds to the ongoing learning process for sustainable urban design and planning in the richest meaning of the word. www.kulturdermetropole.de