People & Networks

Prof. Brehm is an architect at FB 06 ASL, FG Entwerfen im städtebaulichen Kontext and is leading the project seminar "Materialbörse am Campus HoPla" for the second time in WS 24/25. The material exchange is a place and a digital platform for the collection, processing and reuse of different types of materials that arise in the university's teaching activities.

As an important part of establishing a circular economy on campus, the project seminar aims to raise awareness of the sustainable use of resources and very specifically reduce the amount of waste by using various materials relevant to studying (folders, cardboard, wooden boards, Styrodur, etc.).

Prof. Dr. Heindl, FB 06 ASL, Head of the Department of Construction Management and Project Development, supervises the seminar "Sustainable design of student workspaces". The seminar is the active continuation of the analytical-conceptual I Go:Green seminar "Caring and Sharing of University Space" held in SS 24, which launched a process aimed at creating a new culture of self-critical awareness of the need for sharing and sharing of university space and the reuse and upcycling of discarded furniture.

Gabu Heindl says "yes" and "no" (quote from the homepage of her Viennese office"GABU Heindl Architektur"):
"Yes" to the design of public buildings and infrastructure, cultural and educational buildings.
"No" to chauvinistic, racist or discriminatory architecture, to exploitative project proposals, suburbanizing single-family homes or speculative buildings.

Dr. Susanne Ritzmann holds a professorship for sustainable product design and development in the Product Design course at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and is responsible for the "Materialbörse@KHK" seminar. The seminar is conducted by Dipl. Des. Malene Saalmann.

The aim of Materialbörse@KHL is to promote a more sustainable way of working and handling materials during studies and to make it easier for students to access materials free of charge. The background to this is that after every final presentation, mountains of leftover materials, presentation materials and model-making materials end up in the garbage cans in the study rooms. Much of this could be reused, separated or processed in student projects.

Dr. Susanne Ritzmann devotes her teaching and research at the KHK to the generation and reflection of design knowledge in relation to questions of sustainability.

Dr. Jochen Wulfhorst is a research assistant in Department 14 of Civil and Environmental Engineering and leads the seminar "Green city gravel". The name says it all: in the seminar, the first demonstration areas of the gravel areas on the Holländischer Platz campus are to be redesigned and the redesign of urban areas prepared. In this way, the near-natural soil functions (storage for carbon, water and nutrients, flood protection, cleaning of seeping precipitation) are to be restored and biodiversity ensured. The microclimate (cooling and evaporation) would be improved and a higher quality of stay would be promoted.

Frederik Ehling is an architect and research assistant in the ASL Department of Design and Sustainable Building and leads the seminar "Down to the last detail - Strohbau4Experiment" together with Frank Stolz and Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Frank Kasprusch, Head of Department.

The seminar is dedicated to building with organic materials, from material science to the technical details. The aim is to develop, design and build 1:5 and 1:1 components. The construction sector is the only industry worldwide that can have a CO2-negative effect through long-term CO2 sequestration, which requires a sound knowledge of details and materials.