The IBA’27-School is an annual one-week workshop intended as a reflective, critical tool for everyone involved in the IBA process. The student workshop will continue to accompany the process until the opening of the building exhibition as a cooperation project between the four faculties of architecture and urban planning in the Stuttgart region, the architects chamber Baden-Württemberg and the IBA 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart. In doing so, it will focus on the topics of the IBA and thus be able to respond to current developments progressively and sometimes critically.

The future will be bright and shiny
was the motto of the second IBA’27-School 2018, which took place from 7th to 12th October 2018 in Stuttgart. Around 80 students from Argentina, Chile, Germany, Malawi and Austria attended and worked to the question of how Stuttgart and the metropolitan area will look in 2050.

Thinking about the future of 2050, also means to think about the development of our society. There are so many opportunities of what our lives could look like in 30 years – that’s why 2018th IBA’27-School was all about big visions. To shape our own bright and shiny future we searched for visionary ideas that address the major issues of our time at specific sites in the Stuttgart metropolitan Region. The eight different locations in and around Stuttgart are examples of places with high transformation potential and particular local difficulties.

The week started with a World Café Workshop to collect and discuss concrete countermeasures for dealing with the various challenges of today's cities. By exploring the sites together with a local expert, the students and teachers got a better insight into the specific potentials and problems of the sites. After a week of workshops, breakfast lectures, design work, the results of the week are colorful, and the issues discussed are very interesting.

For example, how do technological developments and digitization affect urban structures? Will large housing estates meet the requirements for dense housing communities in the future? Which economic and mobility models can improve supply and production in urban areas? In particular, the public space was a central theme in many projects, in which students interpreted social developments and at the same time made the high significance of their visions visible. All work was presented on Friday night in a public event and presented in a two-week exhibition at St. Mary's Church.

Perspektive Quartiersplatz. Bild: Luca Barth, Jan Essling, David Gschwind, Jonas Zyder
29.02.24 / Luca Barth, Jan Essling, David Gschwind, Jonas Zyder
Entwurf Master Stadtplanung

Connect 714. Urbane Perspektive Vaihingen

Circuleum. Bild: Miriam Porro, Sophia Hälterlein, Julius Jursch, Luise Lonnemann, Anna Herbert
29.02.24 / Miriam Porro, Sophia Hälterlein, Julius Jursch, Luise Lonnemann, Anna Herbert 
Entwurf Master Stadtplanung

Sympathiequartier Vaihingen – nachhaltig, divers, urban

Visualisierung Boulevard am Quartierspark. Bild: Constantin Künster, Sophia Reinisch, Sarah Schuster, Fabiano Tavano, Hannah Zimmermann
29.02.24 / Constantin Künster, Sophia Reinisch, Sarah Schuster, Fabiano Tavano, Hannah Zimmermann
Entwurf Master Stadtplanung

Das Urbane Plus – Synergiequartier Vaihingen

Bild: HfWU
12.10.23 / Studierende der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU)
Bachelor Stadtplanung

Bahndamm Nürtingen 2050

Bild: Helmut Kalcher und Wolfgang Humer
09.05.23 / Helmut Kalcher und Wolfgang Humer
Master Architektur

Gemeinsam leben

Bild: Gloria Erhard und Anna-Lena Ritt
04.05.23 / Gloria Erhard und Anna-Lena Ritt
Master Architektur

Alles im gemischten Bereich (Uhingen)

Vier Giebel ein Turm
Bild: Annalena Arminger und Alexander Gündera
04.05.23 / Annalena Arminger und Alexander Gündera
Master Architektur

Vier Giebel ein Turm (Uhingen)

Gleishaus
Gleishaus. Bild: Lisa Bürgler und Valentina Ofner
24.03.23 / Lisa Bürgler und Valentina Ofner
Master Architektur

Gleishaus (Uhingen)

Perspective View, The Apartment Building. Bild: Jan Mustonen und Ylva Seierstad
16.02.23 / Jan Mustonen und Ylva Seierstad
Master Architektur

Levels (Uhingen)

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