Topia. Regaining Urban Control

Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, Hagar Abiri, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Technology and fabrication, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Architect’s role, Bauhaus, Dessau-Roßlau, Dialectical utopias, Diversity, Environment, Environmental imbalances, Essay, Farming, Food, Food production, Global, Global Awareness, Health, Local, Materials, Mind Shift, Nature, Notes towards a History of Urbanism, Urban Paradigms, Urban pathologies, Utopian practices

Bauhaus Urban Village. Due to its shrinking population and proximity to nature, Dessau has the potential to serve as a valuable source for materials which can be recycled to create a new settlement, called the Bauhaus Urban Village. Based on a new social hybrid system as the main Prosumer concept, the Bauhaus U.V. will answer new needs arising from a changed reality in local as well as global terms.