Kristien Ring was a UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow and delivered the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts Annual Dean’s Lecture. (2016)

The exhibition ‚Self Made City‘ was shown at the Cullity Gallery, the UWA Nedlands Campus in Perth.
EVENTS and LINK

Many public and expert workshops were held on the topic of co-housing.

On the occasion of the International Architecture Festival, the URBAN LIVING exhibition was shown at the CAOM (Center For Architecture Madrid) in Madrid. The exhibition was designed specifically for the space, using components of the original exhibition.

Produced in cooperation with the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment Berlin, together with the Deutsche Botschaft Madrid. 2015

Exhibition Design: Kristien Ring, AA PROJECTS

URBAN LIVING Strategies for the Future
The massive need for living space in many big cities today is a chance to forge a new era of housing by creating new qualities. The URBAN LIVING exhibition presents ideas and best practice examples for new, affordable living typologies, vibrant neighborhoods and a resilient urban development. The exhibition shows strategies that improve urban life while strengthening specific characteristics of individual neighborhoods.

Projects from the international URBAN LIVING workshop and from the SELF-MADE CITY publication are presented.

DAZ Deutsches Architecture Zentrum, Berlin

Curated by Kristien Ring
Exhibition Design and Architecture: AA PROJECTS, Berlin – Ellen Ashenden, Lisa Kreft (Research), Kristien Ring
With contributions by: Trudy Bittner Rosser, Marcos L. Rosa, ifau und Jesko Fezer
Exhibition graphic design: Panatom
Photographs of Exhibition by: schnepp • renou
Featuring Projects by:
03 Architekten, augustinundfrank, Barkow Leibinger, BARarchitekten, Beckmann N’Thépé, Bel – Sozietät für Architektur, Bruno Fioretti Marquez, Canals Moneo + GPS, Carpaneto, CITYFÖRSTER + Mark Niehüser, COBE Berlin, Deadline, De Zwarte Hond, Die Baupiloten, Die Zusammenarbeiter, Duplex, fatkoehl, fatkoehl + Urban Catalyst Studio, Fink & Jocher, ifau und Jesko Fezer, ifau und Jesko Fezer | HEIDE & VON BECKERATH, Herault Arnod, Imke Woelk, Jan Wiese, JUNE 14 Meyer-Grohbrügger & Chermayeff, Kaden & Partner, NÄGELIARCHITEKTEN, OFFSEA, PPAG, realities:united, Talli + Schnitzler, Temperaturas Extremas, VUKOJA GOLDINGER, wiewiorra hopp schwark, zanderrotharchitekten as well as all from the Urban Quarter Friesenstraße Exhibition in cooperation with the Senate Department for Urban Planning and the Environment, Berlin.

With the kind support of:
WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte mbH
GEWOBAG Wohnungsbau-Aktiengesellschaft Berlin
STADT UND LAND Wohnbauten-Gesellschaft mbH
GESOBAU AG
degewo AG
HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH
Umweltbank

ARCHITECTS Presented: Auer+Weber+Architekten, Barkow Leibinger Architekten, Behnisch, Behnisch + Partner Architekten, BOLLES+WILSON, Eller + Eller Architekten, heide von beckerath alberts architekten, Henn Architekten, Ingenhoven und Partner Architekten, J. Mayer H. Architekten, Jan Kleihues und Klaus Schuwerk, Knebel & von Wiedermeyer Architekten, KSP Engel Zimmermann Architekten, LéonWohlhageWernik Architekten mit Werner Sobek Ing. und Transsolar, modulorbeat, Rang + Volz Architekten.

Evening Lecture Programme, addressing themes:

German Design as a Marketing Aspect?; ‘Global Language or Regional Contextualism?’; ‘Stratigies for Developing Projects in Foreign Countries’; as well as ‘Project Reports’ by the exhibiting architects.

21. 02. 2005    Behnisch, Behnisch + Partner Architekten  l  Knebel & von Wedemeyer Architekten

28. 02. 2005     J. Mayer H.   l   modulorbeat   l   BOLLES WILSON

21. 03. 2005    Auer + Weber + Architekten  l  Eller + Eller Architekten  l  Léon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten

04. 04. 2005    Henn Architekten  l  Rang + Volz Architekten  l  Jan Kleihues und Klaus Schuwerk

11. 04. 2005     ‚Architekturgespräche‘, Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung  l  Senatsbaudirektor Dr. Stimmann

18. 04. 2005    Barkow Leibinger Architekten  l  Heide von Beckerath Alberts  l  KSP Engel Zimmermann Arch.

25. 04. 2005    NAX – Auswärtiges Amt  l  Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit  l  Bundesarchitektenkammer

PUBLICATION

EXPORT, Edited by: Kristien Ring, German/English, 96 Pages, © 2005 DAZ, ISBN 3-937037-84-6

EXHIBITION at the DAZ German Center for Architecture, Berlin 17. 02. – 01. 05. 2005

TRAVELING EXHIBITION:  LONDON, at the German Embassy 30.05-30.06.2007. – Accompanying the RIBA Trust Conference „Towards a Sustainable Architecture”.

CREDITS:

Curator: Kristien Ring

Team: Celia Di Pauli, Andrea Nakath

Exhibition Design

This exhibition presents thirty built projects, in detail, on the wall panels. These buildings embody, independently from their country of origin, strong conceptual thinking and consequent implementation of the design concept. These projects are ordered according to building typology, starting with public buildings; museums, galleries, schools and sports facilities, followed by housing; private and social; and finally commercial buildings.

Nine Lightboxes or ‘Country Islands’ provide an overview, introducing young architectural offices with their built projects. Here, it is readable; what and how much is being built in the single states, and in which urban environment. Under ‘Favourites’, participating architects were asked to select a building of relevance from his/her country in order to give reference to precedents and buildings that the young architects find inspiring or noteworthy.

The exhibited projects clearly show that the current architecture of the presented countries develops out of an intense cultural debate fueled by both rich traditions and architectural tendencies at a national and international level. The presented projects do not represent a specific style that can be named, but rather have in common: the clear implementation of convincing conceptual answers to diverse building problems, that are based on a rich architectural heritage.

Emerging Identities -EAST! is an ongoing project. The exhibition will travel throughout Europe in order to underline the goal of international exchange. The two-day opening symposium ‘Positions’ and a country-specific accompanying program deepen certain perspectives. The communication started there and hopefully will be continued in the architectural magazines, galleries and most importantly at the offices of the architects themselves.

Kristien Ring, Exhibition Design, Initiator and Curator

Full Project Description, CREDITS and Architects Listing under Project: Emerging Identities EAST