Kerstin Höger: Role of Scalability within Campus Sustainability

Role of Scalability within Campus Sustainability

Scalability Breakout Session

Prof. Kerstin Höger, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,Architect and Urban Designer Zürich

Prof. Bojan Baletić, University of Zagreb, Vice-Rector Master Planning and Inter-institutional Cooperation

ISCN HARVARD MIT, 01/06/2014, PROF. KERSTIN HÖGER NTNU, PROF. BOJAN BALETIĆ UNIZG

Scalability Objective

Enable the development of scalable models for sustainable solutions that can be replicated in diverse organizational, geographic, political, and cultural contexts to achieve greater impact both locally and globally.

Scalability in a Next Generation Framework

Position our organizations for accelerated and expanded impact through more strategic approaches to develop sustainable models that are scalable across diverse contexts.

Goals of the organizers

Should our local efforts be designed intentionally to be scaled up or down to be replicated in other settings?

How can universities leverage core research and teaching models to better scale sustainability training world-wide?

What are the emerging approaches that will push the boundaries for advancing scalable models for sustainability?Why are current approaches to developing sustainable solutions failing to have the global impact needed?

What will it take to scale up sustainability practices, technologies, concepts, processes?

Questions by the organizers

Cambridge from Civitates Orbis Terrarum by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg,1575

Oxford Collegiate University, map by John Speed 1605

Plan of pub stops in Cambridge

Vitruvian Man (Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio), Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490

R.I.P.s Recycled Individual Products, Freitag.ch, founded 1993

“Diogene”, micro home, Renzo Piano, 2013

“Diogene”, off the grid living

“Diogene”, autarkic

Conference and book publication, 2006-07

Science City ETH Zürich, master plan KCAP 2004

Science City ETH Zürich, aerial photo 2012

ETH Science City strategies and local-global network

Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD),master plan Kerstin Höger Architekten with MKPL and Sassaki, 2008-10

SUTD natural light and ventilation, Kerstin Höger Architekten, 2009

SUTD public campus ground and mixed academic-living area, Kerstin Höger Architekten, 2009

SUTD architecture part 1, Un Studio 2011

SUTD construction site, 2013

Sustainable campus design guidelines, Kerstin Höger

Are we asking the right questions on the right scales?

Should our local efforts be designed intentionally to be scaled up or down to be adapted – but not replicated – to other settings?

How can universities leverage core research and teaching models to better scale sustainability training world-wide? be responsive to the context?

What are the emerging approaches that will push the boundaries for advancing scalable models for sustainability? (re)contextualize

Why are current approaches to developing sustainable solutions failing to have the global impact needed? (scientifically) too reductionist – too general?

What will it take to scale up sustainability practices, technologies, concepts, processes? products and technologies are non-infinitely scalable, concepts, strategies and processes to a certain extent, sustainable architecture and urban design has to consider the specific context!

ISCN HARVARD MIT, 01/06/2014, PROF. KERSTIN HÖGER NTNU, PROF. BOJAN BALETIĆ UNIZG

Program Scalability Breakout Session

Discussion of scalability in the context of the gained insights

Exploration and definition of scalability within campus sustainability

Detection of scalability attributes for sustainable solutions

Framing scalability

ISCN HARVARD MIT, 01/06/2014, PROF. KERSTIN HÖGER NTNU, PROF. BOJAN BALETIĆ UNIZG