| Time: | March 6, 2025, 6:00 p.m. (CET) |
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We are pleased to invite you to the guest lecture “Responsive Envelopes: Paradigms and Potentials” by Prof. Kathy Velikov and Prof. Geoffrey Thün from the University of Michigan. The event is part of the SFB 1244 lecture series – Adaptivity as Utopia.
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Speaker: |
Prof. Kathy Velikov |
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Topic: |
Responsive Envelopes: Paradigms and Potentials |
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Date: |
Thursday, 6 March 2025 | 6:00 p.m. |
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Location: |
ILEK Tent Pfaffenwaldring 14 70569 Stuttgart |
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Registration: |
Please send an email to pr@ilek.uni-stuttgart.de |
Abstract
In this presentation, Velikov and Thün will draw from speculative projects developed by their research group RVTR, and innovative precedents from practice to articulate new frameworks through which we might imagine the future of responsive façade design. From dynamic shading systems and multifunctional component assemblies to hyper-local design techniques this talk will challenge participants to engage in the search for new approaches to envelope design that might be responsive, adaptive and co-evolve with their surrounding environments and human interactions.
Short Bio
Kathy Velikov and Geoffrey Thün are Professors of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan where she serves as Associate Dean for Research and Creative Practice, and he serves as Associate Vice President for Research: Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. They are founding partners in the research-based practice RVTR.
RVTR’s work ranges in scale from that of the regional territory and the city, to responsive envelopes that mediate energy, atmosphere, and social space. These operational scales are tied together through a methodology that entails a complex systems approach to design questions. RVTR’s work has been published and exhibited widely. Recognition includes the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts (2009-2010). In 2016, RVTR collaborated with curator Pierre Bélanger on Extraction, representing Canada at the Venice Biennale. RVTR’s Infra Eco Logi Urbanism: A Project for the Great Lakes Region, examining the future of energy, mobility and urbanization traveled as a solo exhibition to Montreal, Toronto, New Haven, Detroit and Knoxville between 2013 and 2015, and was published as a monograph by Park Books, Zurich in 2015.
Velikov and Thün are co-founders of the Urban Collaboratory, a trans-disciplinary consortium working with cities as partners to translate and couple emerging technologies and urban design approaches into innovative solutions for contemporary urban challenges.
