Wednesday 25th October 2023 1pm, Reilly Room
Air enables fundamental processes for life in the biosphere. Air is a medium, carrier of seeds, water, oxygen and essences of life but also dust, CO2 and harmful particles. Anthropogenic impact in earths biosphere reached geological dimensions. Global warming, extinction of species, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, urban heat islands or extreme weather are challenges for human life in future. How you can understand and contribute positively to such complex problems? Breathe Earth Collective is researching and practicing substantial ways of multidisciplinary action. The introduced debate on "Climate Culture" opens a dialogue between humans and non-human life forms such as Air, Climate, Plants or Weather. Climate Culture seeks for action worldwide, and collaboratively overcome currently counteracting fields of science, economy and politics. Breathe Earth Collective celebrates plants and green infrastructure in cities. Because we are breathing all the same air we have developed the vision of a BREATHING CITY. Green infrastructure in the city plays an important role as a climate effective, visual and sensorial actor in direct urban environments. BREATHING CITIES are climate positive places, that create more oxygen, heat, energy is produced than needed by its inhabitants. BREATHING CITIES are able to enhance life quality in cities by shading and evaporating water for cooling, binding CO2 from the atmosphere and produce oxygen to let us breathe
Biography
BIO Breathe Earth Collective
Breathe Earth Collective is an interdisciplinary do-and-think tank on the subject of air and climate. Breathe Earth Collective works in a transdisciplinary manner and uses flat hierarchies to make it possible to deal with complex content, an approach reflecting the fact that each of the members also runs their own specialized businesses. Their diverse backgrounds feeds the group’s inventive talent.
https://breatheearth.net/vision/
Members of the collective:
Karlheinz Boiger – Hohensinn Architektur ZT GmbH, Graz
Lisa Maria Enzenhofer – Green4Cities GmbH based in Vienna and Graz
Andreas Goritschnig / Studio AG, Graz
Markus Jeschaunig – Agency in Biosphere, Graz
Bernhard König – Green4Cities GmbH based in Vienna and Graz
BIO Bernhard König
Bernhard König, landscape architect, managing partner of Green4Cities GmbH and member of the Breathe Earth Collective, studied architecture, urban and regional planning in Weimar, Oxford and Zurich. After working for international design practices such as Herzog & de Meuron, Basel and the Büro für Urbane Projekte, Leipzig, he was a researcher at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and at the Institute for Architecture and Landscape at Graz University of Technology before becoming project manager of the Austrian Pavilion “breathe.austria” at Expo 2015 in Milan.