- ChangeMakers. Entrepreneurial and design competencies for societal transformation
In this event, participants deal with a fictitious future scenario. An impulse symposium offers insights to stimulate the imagination for this future scenario. During the project week, participants work in teams to develop a practical solution to a real-world social problem, learning to apply design and entrepreneurship methods. Participants are encouraged to use generative AI tools to illustrate the solution scenarios they create and to articulate their vision through prototyping.
- Constructing Logics: Towards an integrated architectural design
Students specifically address the integration of civil engineering and climate-responsive design. During the project week, they design and build a model, exploring the role of structural engineering, the integration of daylighting and natural ventilation, and architectural possibilities in the design of a building's space, façade, and functional relationships.
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Ecologies of Building
Interdisciplinary teams are developing a sustainable transformation of the TUM Campus Schragenhofstraße. In collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Mobile Propulsion Systems, they are envisioning a bottom-up transformation of the campus through holistic design and architectural solutions. The goals are to transform the campus into a flexible research area, open it to partners from academia and industry, and provide smart energy and mobility management.
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FEM for FSI with Open Source Software
The interdisciplinary project "FEM for FSI with Open Source Software" deals with the challenges of coupled phenomena in nature and technology and their numerical simulation with FEM. Internationally recognized experts give insight into the latest innovations in research and high-performance computing as well as into the implementation of different solution strategies for FSI in the open source software Kratos Multiphysics. In the project work, students are immersed in this numerical environment and solve various challenges from the field of fluid-structure interaction in interdisciplinary teams.
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Interdisciplinary Research and Design Methods for Sustainable Urban Futures
Students work in groups to create mappings of Munich's Neuperlach neighborhood, for example, building uses and circular practices of people repairing, swapping, and storing. The course ties in with the EU research project "Creating NEBourhoods Together", whose overarching goal is to design environmentally sound, sustainable neighborhoods. In the sub-project "Circular Neuperlach", the Chair of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Planning and Building is working on "circular neighborhoods" whose goal is climate and resource neutrality.
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Bricks Hybrid 4.0
During the project week, students work in groups to create a resource-efficient, sustainable "mock-up" of bricks, timber, and clay. Cross-disciplinary boundaries such as design of dimensions, manufacturing processes, or design impact assessments must be kept in mind. Construction will take place in the 1:1 Design Factory of the TUM; materials and machines will be provided.
More information: www.tum.de/en/studies/degree-programs/key-skill-programs/project-weeks