Toward Re-Entanglement

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) In recognition of the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction, the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policy makers from around the world to author a manifesto.Toward Re-Entanglement is a call for radical action. 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 re-design of the entire life cycle of the urban realm: the re-formation and re-materialization of the physical artifacts that comprise it, the reconfiguration of the socioeconomic structures that underpin it, and the re-engagement of the bioregions that might sustainably supply it. In this way, our unprecedented convergence of environmental and social crises offers us powerful opportunities for systemic change. Lead authors: Philipp Misselwitz, Alan Organschi

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.