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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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

Scenario drawing and pattern analysis are seen as evolving innovative tools for spatial characterisation and visioning. The design research shown in this book contributes to the project Regiobranding. Targeting three areas in the Metropolitan Region Hamburg, the project aims at regional visions for new rural-urban alliances in a deeply transforming spatial context. Scenarios and patterns are displayed as accelerators in knowledge and decision processes linked to the concept of Regiobranding: to combine imagery, economic positioning, identification processes, and visions of future habitat. In an architectural-spatial approach, explorative scenarios and relational patterns open up design-driven knowledge production for larger spatial strategies and for territorial planning.

How can dynamic factors and dynamic phenomena outside of metropolitan cores be displayed for debates of territorial futures? Dynamics of Periphery showcases emerging creative and resilient habitat futures to develop concepts for metropolitan, urban, and rural networks—with a perspective not on urban margins, but on new centres for community. The atlas displays integrative process-design, pro-active context-building, and conceptual narratives as accelerators of change and new concepts in urbanism. These new concepts combine bottom-up and participatory approaches, the use of territorial capital, and the qualities of liveable spaces into processual and strategic innovations that cross scales and disciplines. Starting from architecture, urban design, and territorial planning, this book aims at interfaces between design and research towards dynamic roles of peripheries. The atlas is funded by the DAAD University Dialogue Southern Europe.

Venice and the Lagoon represent a unique territory defined by hybrid cultural and natural forms, flows, and networks. This project encompasses 68 islands in the Lagoon, many of which are no longer in use. The initiative aims to creatively reinterpret the Lagoon from an architectural perspective, exploring spatial potentials and innovative patterns for change linked to new economic and social viewpoints. Architectural and urban design projects serve as exploratory tools and strategic contributions to address the boundaries between land and water, sweet and salt water, and urban and rural areas. These projects highlight the importance of crossing borders and fostering connections, which can drive innovation and enhance spatial capacities. The Lagoon emerges as a cultural hybrid sphere that integrates building and settlement aspects, natural forces, renewable resources, agriculture, fishery, and various economies and industries. Discussions about Venice's future underscore the need for stronger connections across the Lagoon, extending to the harbour, mainland, and regional levels. The architectural perspective encourages experimental spatial interventions aimed at fostering cultural and economic growth, weaving territorial networks, and promoting a vision of a new productive Archipelago.