SPRING 2025
Now in its second iteration, the Building Futures Series, hosted by Alpinestudio, continues to foster interdisciplinary dialogue across architecture, landscape design, urban planning, and civil engineering. This year’s series deepens the conversation on climate resilience in the built environment, engaging participants in global sustainability frameworks and ecological strategies to address the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
The series explores urban futures in the age of planetary crisis, spanning multiple scales—from architectural interventions to city-wide transformations, and from human experiences to global geopolitical dynamics. By bringing together diverse perspectives, Building Futures aims to generate innovative approaches to adaptation, mitigation, and regenerative design for a more resilient and sustainable built environment.
Building Futures Series 2025 – Speaker List
Workshops
- Urban Climate Hazards: Design to Action
Oswald Jenewein
04 FEB 2025 – 14:00 | Foyer, Studio2 - Prompt-A-Thon: AI-Driven Visions for the Future City in the Alps
Oswald Jenewein, Mehdi Farahbakhsh
25-27 FEB 2025 – 09:00-18:00 | Archiv Bau.Kunst.Geschichte + Foyer, Studio2
Expeditions
- Place + Responsibility: Urban Dialogues with Time
Iris Ullmann, Oswald Jenewein
18 FEB 2025 – 14:00 | Rathaus, Landhaus, Innsbruck - Place + Human Intelligence: Alpine Bootcamp 1 – Winter
Felix Huber, Oswald Jenewein
28 FEB 2025 – 13:00 | Off-Campus – Sattelberg - Place + Human Intelligence: Alpine Bootcamp 2 – Spring
Felix Huber, Oswald Jenewein
31 MAR 2025 – 14:00 | Off-Campus – Patscherkofel
Lectures
- Climate Resilient Urban Design: Global Impacts, Local Adaptations
Yannick Back
20 FEB 2025 – 14:00 | Archiv Bau.Kunst.Geschichte - Co-Creating the Transscalar City
Oswald Jenewein
20 FEB 2025 – 16:00 | Archiv Bau.Kunst.Geschichte - Human-Centric Design in the Age of AI
Mehdi Farahbakhsh
25 FEB 2025 – 16:00 | Archiv Bau.Kunst.Geschichte - Urban Planning in Innsbruck
Wolfgang Andexlinger
06 MAR 2025 – 14:00 | Foyer, Studio2 - Reclaiming the Streets
Erik Czejka
13 MAR 2025 – 10:00 | Foyer, Studio2 - Exploring Urban Water Infrastructure
Mohsen Hajibabaei
03 APR 2025 – 16:00 | Foyer, Studio2
Presentations & Reviews
- Alpine Superblock – Mid-Reviews
Vasileios Chanis, Erik Czejka
27 MAR 2025 – 10:00 | Foyer, Studio2 - Alpine Superblock – Final Reviews + Exhibition
Pia Sarpaneva, Julia Lindgren, John Maruszczack
06 MAY 2025 – 10:00 | Foyer, Studio2
The Building Futures Series 2025 features a dynamic program of workshops, lectures, expeditions, and reviews, all open to the public, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on climate resilience, urban adaptation, and the future of Alpine cities.