Transfer
Research cannot stop where empirical knowledge has emerged; rather, for feasibility and sustainable urban renewal, it is dependent on transferring this knowledge and engaging in exchange with business, politics and society about it. In addition to various events during the year, the Detmold Conference Week (DCW) is a focal point of our work. Furthermore, we publish discussion contributions from research in our journal Design Strategies - Magazine for the Built Environment, as well as in our Impulses. You can always keep up to date with the newsletter.
Magazine and impulses
Design Strategies
Design Strategies - Journal for the built environment
TO THE POINT
Since 2016, the urbanLab magazine has been published annually as a specialist journal for urban and regional planning with the aim of linking research, teaching and practice in the planning disciplines of the field of tension between city and neighborhood on the basis of specific topic clusters. In the future, the magazine will appear under the name Design Strategies as a professional journal for the built environment. It will focus on contributions to regenerative and human-centered design of the environment and the opportunities of digitalization. We give a platform to forward-looking ideas, specialist articles, publications and controversial discussions, and bring them to the point supported by findings from our research.
DESIGN STRATEGIES - AUSGABE 1: ReForm Peace! - Gedänkstättenarchitektur
Conferences and events
Detmold Conference Week
Detmold Conference Week
THINKING THE FUTURE TOGETHER
The sustainable development of the built environment has long been a central focus of numerous European and global agendas, academic research and curricula, as well as urban practice. However, new global challenges related to health and safety—alongside pressing issues that directly impact our living environments, such as biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, demographic shifts, economic instability, and the rise of extreme climate events—call for a renewed and collective commitment to improving concepts for future habitats.
We must rethink values, policies, and strategies, and develop new concepts that enable us to design our living environments in harmony with nature while shaping society to be inclusive, just, and productive. As designers, architects, planners, researchers, and educators, we should be at the forefront of collaboratively shaping a future-oriented built environment. The complexity of our lived environment demands a convergence of fragmented knowledge across design and planning disciplines—and beyond.
Through the lens of the IDS Institute for Design Strategies and its thematic clusters—Regenerative Design, Human-Centered Design, and Data-Driven Design—we aim to identify synergies across the scales of our living environment and various aspects and values of sustainability, in order to discuss resilient design strategies for future development dynamics.
Since 2020, the Detmold Conference Week has served as our platform for bringing together insights on these topics, re-evaluating existing tools, methods, and design strategies for sustainable development, and jointly exploring trends and new solutions. Initially launched as a fully digital format, the Conference Week has now become an established part of the Creative Campus Detmold and continues to evolve.
