Sustainable Twins
12 Jun—22 June (11 dates)
Greater Glasgow & Clyde Core Programme Exhibition
Event Summary
Sustainable Twins is an exploration and creative representation of 4 Scottish and German Cities which maps their efforts to tackle the impact of the climate crisis.
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Monday-Thursday: 09:30-18:00 Friday: 09:30-15:00 Saturday: 09:30-13:30
Date(s)
12 Jun—22 June
Location
The Goethe Institut Glasgow, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow G3 6AX
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The building is accessed via steps at the front entrance.Organiser
The Goethe-Institut Glasgow & The Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde
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Sustainable Twins explores the concept of twinned Scottish and German cities through the lens of current projects and future proposals that aim to mitigate the effects of climate change. Size and status are often used as a method of partnering cities with the intention that a cultural exchange can form transitional learning, progressive development and exchange best practice approaches for common goals.
The Goethe-Institut Glasgow in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde have undertaken an exploration of 4 twin cities (Aberdeen & Regensburg, Dundee & Würzburg, Edinburgh & Munich, Glasgow & Nuremberg).
The project, an output of an elective class combining Year 2 and Year 5 students, is educationally ambitious in its cross-year collaboration and creative outputs of representation. The students initially embarked on an academic study of review, analysis and comparison to evaluate the approaches undertaken by the ‘twins’ seeking to tackle reciprocal issues facing the urban populus from the climate crisis.
A collective data repository used to visualise, map and share findings across the student groups was refined in partnership with the Goethe-Institut to create an interactive exhibition on display within Goethe-Institut Glasgow’s heritage building in Park Circus.
Exhibits range from a large-scale interactive puzzle encouraging visitors to propose a 3rd city, a stop motion animation exploring climate conscious decision making, a landscape of tree seedlings that will be planted on close of the exhibition and a cultural exchange embodied in bespoke beer and crates which form a setting for kinship and discussion.
