- Conférence
Integration of animal needs in the planning and design of cities
Free, registration required
@ LUCA - Luxembourg Center for Architecture
The process begins with the early selection of target species, whose specific life requirements – such as food sources, breeding sites, and shelter – are incorporated into the design on equal footing with human needs. Hauck demonstrates how this integrative practice can generate new aesthetic, functional, and social qualities in the built environment. The lecture will explore both the theoretical foundations and practical applications of AAD in landscape architecture and urban development. Hauck also addresses the challenges, opportunities, and cultural shifts that accompany this reorientation of design – towards a post-anthropocentric approach to shaping urban habitats.
- Language : EN
- Free, upon registration
Organised as part of the "Living Thresholds : Towards Cohabitation in Architectural Design” exhibition, in collaboration with the Musée national d'histoire naturelle.
Thomas E. Hauck
Landscape Architect, Professor of Vienna University of Technology, and Director of Studio Animal-Aided Design, Berlin
Thomas E. Hauck is a landscape architect and completed vocational training as a gardener at the HBLFA for Horticulture in Vienna-Schönbrunn, followed by higher education in landscape and open space planning at the University of Hanover and the Edinburgh College of Art.
He did his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich. He worked as an assistant professor at the TU Munich in the department of landscape architecture and public space and as a research assistant at the University of Kassel in the Department of Open Space Planning.
With the urban planner Cordelia Polinna, he founded the planning office Polinna Hauck Landscape+Urbanism. Together with Susann Ahn, he holds the professorship for landscape architecture and landscape planning at the Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology. He is the director of Studio Animal-Aided Design.
