Smart Earth:4D Urban Digital Twins, from AI to Climate Corridors 13.05.2025, room/sala 101 godz. 14:00
Speakers/Prelegenci
Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Dr. Michael Walczak
ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Chair of Architecture and Urban Design
Prof. Hubert Klumpner is an architect and tenured professor at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, D-ARCH. As founding partner and Design Principal of Urbanthinktank_next, he pioneered the 'Social Turn' in architecture. This movement had its breakthrough in 2010 with the New York MoMA exhibition titled 'Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement. Klumpner studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and earned a Master's in urban design from Columbia University in NY. He is internationally renowned for his urban projects and research, which focus on the intersection of informality and the design of architectural prototypes, innovative building typologies, and civic spaces that promote spatial justice. Klumpner has received prestigious awards and prizes, including the 2012 Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, the 2010 Gold Holcim Award for Latin America, and the 2017 Curry Stone Design Prize. He received nominations for projects developed with ETHZ and Urbanthinktank, such as "Empower-Shack" in South Africa / RIBA Best Building of the Year or "Fabrica de Cultura" Colombia for the MCHAP of IIT Chicago. Currently, he leads Urban Transformation Projects at ETH Zurich with SECO, designing prototypical public buildings like the "Mega-School" for thousands of children in Colombia, and is working on the General Urban Plan for the City of Sarajevo.
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Dr. Michael Walczak has studied architecture and is a founding partner of Urbanthinktank_next. For his interdisciplinary doctoral studies, Michael graduated in 2021 with distinction from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.Michael has bridged research and practice with his work at the ETH Zurich Institutes Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Laboratory for Energy Conversion and the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP) Urbanization Research Incubator. His doctoral dissertation is titled “Digital Urban Imaginaries: Digital models transforming citizen-centred design processes” and received the state prize „Award of Excellence“ from the Austrian Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research for one of the best dissertations. The research resulted in the co-development of the "EnerPol” AI-supported software for large-scale urban simulations coupled with data-driven analysis. Michael is currently a Post-Doctoral researcher at the ETH Zurich Chair of Architecture and Urban Design leading the Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS) / 4D Urban Digital Twin and its Sarajevo-Satellite-Office "Urban Design Studio Sarajevo", developing the General Urban Plan for the City of Sarajevo, and teaching at ETH Zurich and the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Architecture.
Wykład pod patronatem:
Dziekan Wydziału Architektury prof. Agaty Gawlak
Ambasady Szwajcarii w Polsce
Lecture under the patronage of:
Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Professor Agata Gawlak
The Embassy of Switzerland in Poland
