Many exciting speakers were guests at the 2022 sustain.build.repeat symposium, which was held at the ZKM and livestreamed under the management of PINK Event Service. The event was organized by the KIT Professorship of Sustainable Construction with the kind support of Wacker Chemie AG. In order to revisit the contents of the symposium, a podcast was recorded in cooperation with Campusradio Karlsruhe.

See some impressions of the event here. We would like to sincerely thank all those involved in the event for their commitment and organisational efforts, for the great encounters, conversations and new connections that were created at and through the symposium.

We are very pleased to announce our 3rd Symposium on Sustainable Construction on the 29th April 2022 in the ZKM Medientheater in Karlsruhe and online. The event is organized by the Professorship of Sustainable Construction and is being held with the kind support of Wacker Chemie AG.

In the two buildings of the Department of Architecture at KIT, the Symposium "sustain.build.repeat. - building stock as the resource of the 21st century" is currently being announced with many posters.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Dr. Michael Sailer talked about about the possibilities of biological surface treatment with a living fungus.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Prof. Dr. Marie-Pierre Laborie lectures about about the potential of bio based polymers within wood as a renewable resource for the building sector.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Werner Schmidt presents different design and construction techniques and showed the diverse possibilities of building with straw bales.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Martin Rauch gave a lecture about earth as an ecological building material. He showed some of the most important projects realized with his company Lehm Ton Erde Baukunst GmbH and explained the advantages of earth in comparison to other building materials.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Prof. Dr. Henk Jonkers gave a lecture about self-healing concrete. He addresses the question of the amount of concrete being used in the building industry today and provides a solution for environmentally responsive concrete.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Dr. Alireza Javadian gave a lecture about the special qualities and capacities of bamboo in comparison to other building materials and shows different types of application of bamboo as a material substituting other materials.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Prof. Dr. Hanaa Dahy gave a lecture about her research projects. Thereby she addressed different ways and technologies of working with biocomposites and natural fibers.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Dipl.-Ing. Andrea Klinge gave an insight in her current Research Project for Circular Construction about the deconstruction, sorting and reuse of waste wood in prefabricated elements.

At the symposium grow.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in December 2020, Prof. Eike Roswag-Klinge held a lecture about natural resources such as wood, bamboo and earth that have been the basis for the creation of human dwellings for thousands of years.