Jörg Schröder Books

Cosmopolitan Habitat promotes a research agenda for urban resilience, understanding cities as global avant-garde dealing with the planetary challenges of climate change, migration, and social fragmentation. Within the framework of the "Green Deal", Europe promotes ideas and innovation for manifest change and long-term strategies to achieve resilience and sustainability. Concurrently, we are confronted by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our cities, and the ways we might re-imagine and construct our urban futures. How might cities become laboratories in which open communities invent, explore, and test strategies to enhance livability, inclusiveness, and sustainable economies? In a wide range of experimental ideas and research essays spanning European and international cities, Cosmopolitan Habitat presents conceptual models, urban strategies, and spatial practices of the Open City, across urbanism, architecture, other artistic and scientifc disciplines, culture, economy, and politics.

A discrete two-scale homogenization scheme of micro-macro-transition procedure: The FE2-method.- Variational modeling of microstructures in plasticity.- Micromorphic approach to crystal plasticity and phase transformation.- Formation of deformation substructures observed in ductile materials.- On scale-dependent crystal plasticity models.- Construction of statistically similar representative volume elements.

A collection of international projects in rural areas that addresses questions of spatial strategies: What form do they take? What impact do they have on rural ways of life? What effect does the concern for food production have on architecture in both rural and urban areas? Do they encourage migration to urban centres?

When it comes to climate change, circularity has become a major topic. Closed loops, reuse, recycling, and renewable materials are already fashionable ideas in architecture and product design. In order to establish the new paradigm of circular design, this book introduces a territorial dimension to the goal of transforming living spaces for resilience and sustainability--and to the use of design-led research and design-thinking as effective forces for analysis, developing concepts and strategies, and cooperative processes of transformation. Featuring case studies from all over Europe that merge creative narratives in urbanism with social innovation and creative industries, Circular Design aims to activate dynamic fields and networks of ideas, people, and space oriented to circular principles.

“Dynamics of Periphery. Videoworks and Collages” focuses on the performance and perception of urban spaces beyond the paradigm of inside vs. outside, in a highly global, extremely specific and temporal city as Venice. It combines activities and skills of urban exploration, spatial thinking, arts, interactive communication, and urban design in order to enhance new approaches in urbanism. The artistic research approach transforms video installations and collages into methodical tools to explain and influence urban change as well as to experiment with other ways of perception and representation in architecture. "Dynamics of Periphery. Videoworks and Collages” has been developed as a workshop session in the framework of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, in cooperation between the Institute of Urban Design and Planning of Leibniz Universität Hannover with the Department DICEA of Università Politecnica delle Marche.

City Makers explores current challenges in the urban transformation of the city Bologna and its expanding metropolitan horizon along Via Emilia. As urban research and design studio, City Makers has been developed with students of the University of Hannover, in cooperation with the University of Bologna. The focus on urban design and innovation is linked to actual urban planning and territorial planning processes: Bologna’s Urban Innovation Plan and the setup of Neighbourhood Labs and the Strategic Plan for the Metropolitan City of Bologna. The topic of social innovation for increased citizens’ participation and co-design—leading to new concepts and expertise in urban planning and design—in City Makers is set in dialogue with initiatives and concepts of making in the context of a highly productive and inclusive city and region, a strong university pole, and a rich industrial and artisan tradition.

The international workshop Matera Soundscapes explores sound as a new tool of urban design and a platform for urban visions. Matera Soundscapes aims to extend articulated acoustic perceptions of a city into devices of design and to conceive soundscapes as stages of urban performativity that encompass new ways of interaction and involvement: to think about and engage with architecture and space through sound. The workshop is part of the „Sounds of the Remote Future“, a cross-disciplinary project coproduced by Onyx Jazz Club Matera and MateraBasilicata2019 Foundation. DiCem University of Basilicata and Leibniz Universität Hannover are the academic partners. Through merging urban design, performance studies, approaches of visual sociology, anthropology, and acoustic arts, the workshop aims at tangilble and intangible interaction of sound, form, space, and body. In a design research approach, Matera Soundscapes extends material-virtual cultural and artistic creativity towards dynamics of urban transformation.

Im Forschungsprojekt REGIOBRANDING geht es um Branding als Bewusstseins- und Stärkungsprozess regionaler Potenziale und Innovationskonzepte zur nachhaltigen räumlichen Entwicklung. REGIOBRANDING bearbeitet mit Unterstützung regionaler Partner drei Fokusregionen in der Metropolregion Hamburg: Griese Gegend – Elbtal – Wendland, Lübeck – Nordwestmecklenburg und Steinburger Elbmarschen. Das Projekt zielt auf auf regionale Visionen, Prozesse und Konstellationen für neue Stadt-Land-Kooperation in sich tiefgreifend wandelnden räumlichen Kontexten. Für den Schwerpunkt BAUEN UND SIEDLUNGSENTWICKLUNG werden mit dieser Publikation Beiträge veröffentlicht, die in der transdisziplinären Aufstellung des Projekts mit insgesamt 11 Partner aus Universität und Praxis von der Abteilung Regionales Bauen und Siedlungsplanung der Leibniz Universität Hannover LUH erarbeitet wurden. Die Ergebnisse in Analyse und Konzeptfindung gehen von einem fachlichen Fokus in BAUEN UND SIEDLUNGSENTWICKLUNG aus, sie sind im transdisziplinären Arbeitsprozess des Projekts entstanden und auf weitere Schritte von REGIOBRANDING gerichtet.

Creative Heritage ist ein Manifest im Europäischen Jahr des Kulturerbes 2018 – es ruft dazu auf, Kulturerbe als Dinge und Räume neu mit Ideen und Menschen in Verbindung zu bringen. Creative Heritage fordert, Kulturerbe zu schützen, kreativ zu nutzen und als Grundlage und Anregung zu sehen, Neues zu schaffen. Creative Heritage zeigt, wie Kulturerbe Impulse geben kann, um die Gesellschaft von heute zu integrieren und Städte von morgen zu gestalten. „Wir kämpfen dafür, Kulturerbe in kreative Entwicklung einzubauen“ schreibt Filipe Barata, UNESCO Chair und einer der 42 Autoren des Buchs und Träger der Initiative Creative Heritage. Kreative Stadtplaner, Architekten und Künstler, kreative Experten für Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Ökologie haben mit Unterstützung der Volkswagen Stiftung die Hannover Creative Heritage Agenda erarbeitet. Sie ist Ausgangspunkt für eine internationale Plattform für experimentelle, wegweisende Projekte und neue Konzepte, an der bereits 22 Universitäten in Europa und Lateinamerika beteiligt sind. Das Buch Creative Heritage stellt Stimmen der Initiative dar, die Kulturerbe, Stadt und Kreativität neu zusammenbringt.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 1700 km of coast in 2016 has been the national Wunderland of tourism, for 2017 a further rise is expected, not as last because of international insecurities and risks. Focused on the Baltic sea coast, the master design studio aims at a double and connected question: How can a possibly short-term Baltic hype be transformed into strategic impulses for urban and regional development? How does in this transformation of the coast change architectural practices and paradigms in leisure and tourism, and what are their impulses towards and interferences with other sectors? The Baltic Coast project addresses urbanistic strategies and architectural concepts that re-act towards changes and that influence the shaping of trends themselves. The methodological steps are oriented towards a design-based knowledge production, starting with an exploration spatial and socio-economic context and field surveys, connected to proceeding urban and architectural design research in territorial, local and object scales, combined with presentations, debates, poster and models.