The Habitat Unit is a globally networked research and teaching centre developing new approaches, expertise and application-oriented tools relevant for global urbanisation and urban change processes. The Habitat Unit is committed to an inclusive and rights based approach to urban policy, urban management as well as development-oriented and actor-driven planning.

Oasis Urbano is an intercultural and multidisciplinary collective that facilitates the co-production of common spaces and liveable cities

The Student Conference sbe22 will be organized by the Natural Building Lab and the Habitat Unit of the TU Berlin as one of the participating universities as Partners in the context of the Pop-Up Campus Aachen in the summer semester 2022. The program will take place at TU Berlin within the framework of the international conference on sustainable building "sbe22 berlin - sustainable built environment within planetary boundaries" and will enable the students of the Pop-Up Campus to exchange ideas with international scientists and present their projects in September.

The open air exhibition and culture space ZU/FLUCHT is the outcome of 18 months of cooperation between Natural Building Lab, Stiftung Exilmuseum Berlin and a network of cooperation partners from the TU Berlin and beyond. ZU/FLUCHT is the first step towards to the new Exilmuseum, which will be built at Anhalter Bahnhof by Stiftung Exilmuseum in the coming years. For five months, the museum will be temporarily located in former tempohome containers that were until recently used to accommodate those seeking refuge in Berlin. Besides information and content from Stiftung Exilmuseum and NBL, the exhibition also showcases the results of the Habitat Unit research project “Architectures of Asylum” and contents from the “We Refugees Archive”.

Bis zur Eröffnung der Baustelle des Exilmuseums am Anhalter Bahnhof soll der Ort mit einer temporären Installation aus sechs Containern, die ehemals für die Unterbringung von Geflüchteten dienten, bespielt werden.

Es scheint, dass wir (endlich) kurz vor einer Holzrenaissance stehen. Es steht außer Zweifel, dass Klimawandel und Ressourcenknappheit Realitäten sind, die es erforderlich machen, den Einsatz von Ressourcen und Energie im Bausektor radikal zu überdenken. Für Architekten bedeutet dies, dass die Verwendung der etablierten modernen Materialien wie Beton, Stahl und Glas beim Bau von Gebäuden auf das absolut Notwendige reduziert werden muss. Die Zukunft ist grün, die Zukunft ist aus Holz.  

In the SEMBRANDO VIDA project a trans-disciplinery team from Columbia and Germany consisting of academics, students, craftsmen, organisations and residents, are seeking to develop an ecologically and socially sustainable transformation strategy for the Morro, the former landfill of Medellín around which the informal settlement of Moravia grew.