Wiederverflechtungen

Recognizing the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction, the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers from around the world to author a manifesto. Wiederverflechtungen: Eine Charta für unsere Städte und den Planeten is a call for radical transformation. It challenges all those with a role in the conception, production, operation, and governance of the building sector to address the systemic ecological, climatic, and social impacts incurred by its activities. Twelve principles of "re-entanglement" guide the redesign of the entire life cycle of the urban realm: the reforming and rematerializing of the physical artifacts that comprise it, the reconfiguring of the socioeconomic structures that underpin it, and the reengaging of the bioregions that might sustainably supply it. In this way, the unprecedented convergence of the environmental and social crises we are causing offers powerful opportunities for systemic change.

Philipp Misselwitz is an architect and urban planner based in Berlin. He holds the Chair of Habitat Unit at the Institute for Architecture, TU-Berlin. He is Executive Director of Bauhaus Earth-an interdisciplinary think-tank and lab dedicated to transforming building and human settlements from being drivers of climate and societal crises into creative forces for systemic regeneration. Alan Organschi is a principal and partner at Gray Organschi Architecture, an award-winning, US based architecture and timber building practice. He currently serves as director of the Innovation Labs at Bauhaus Earth and is a senior member of the faculty at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught architectural design and building technology for two decades. Coauthors: Ana María Durán Calisto, Andrea Gebhard, Cade Diehm, Edgar Pieterse, Franziska Schreiber, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, James Drinkwater, Marlène de Saussure, Marc Palahí, Monica Tanuhandaru, Nathalie Jean-Baptiste, Rocío Armillas Tiseyra, Tillmann Prinz, Vicente Guallart, Vyjayanthi V. Rao Bauhaus Earth is a global interdisciplinary initiative of collaborators from science, architecture, engineering, industry, policy, and finance that seeks to transform the building sector from a major source of anthropogenic environmental and social impact into a regenerative and ecologically sensitive means to meet the housing and infrastructural needs of an urbanizing global population.