Laufen Manifesto for a Humane Design Culture

Anna Heringer, Essay, expanding design practices, No Density, Politics and economics

Architect’s challenge, Architect’s role, Beauty, Built environment, Built landscape, Collaborative work, Communication, Community, Context, Creativity, Cultural agitator, Culture, Design, Design strategies, Developing policies, development, Ecological design, Educational, Empowering society, Essay, Flexibility, Global Awareness, Human rights, Humanitarian Practices, Inequality, Infrastructure, Innovation, Knowledge, Labor, Local materials, Low budget, Manifesto, Network, Participation, Power, Project, self-construction, Self-sufficiency, Sharing knowledge, Territorial Approach, Urban planning

Laufen, October 20th, 2013 www.laufenmanifesto.org

List of Autors:

Anna Heringer, Hon. Prof. of the UNESCO Chair for Earthen Architecture, Germany Andres Lepik, Director, Architecture Museum TUM, DE Hubert Klumpner, Architekt, Dean Dep. of Architecture ETH, VE/CH Peter Rich, Architect, hon. FAIA, ZA Line Ramstad, Landscape Architect, Gyaw Gyaw, NO/BM Peter Cachola Schmal, Director, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, DE Andres Bäppler, Architect, Schule fürs Leben, DE/ CO Emilio Caravatti, Architect, Professor Milano Politecnico, IT Dietmar Steiner, Director of Architekturzentrum Vienna, AT Christian Werthmann, Prof. Landscape Architecture, Hannover Univ, DE Martin Rauch, Hon.Prof. of theUNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture, AT Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Architect, Editor EcologiK, FR Helena Sandman, Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects, Ukumbi, FI Enrico Vianello, Architect, Studio TAMassociati, IT Rahul Mehrotra, Architect, IN, Chair Urban Planning &Design, Harvard, USA Alejandro Restreppo-Montoya, Architect, Professor, Medellin, CO Susanne Hofmann, Architect, Die Baupiloten, DE Anh-Linh Ngo, Editor ARCH+, DE, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Architect, Editor Arquitectura Viva, SP, Alejandro Echeverri, Director of Urbam, Medellin, CO

Too many people worldwide subsist in undeserving living conditions, and their ranks are growing by the day. As representatives of the professions collectively shaping the built environment, it is our responsibility to resist this intolerable situation. We are speaking out to define an alternative position. We must produce spaces that counter exploitation, control and alienation, whether in urban or rural landscapes.