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\"\" Grit Buergow<\/strong> holds a doctorate in urban and landscape design and is co-founder of the design research project ROOF WATER-FARM<\/a>. Since founding aquatectura in 2002, Grit B\u00fcrgow has worked internationally on issues of water- and climate-sensitive design<\/strong>, urban farming and circular economy in neighborhoods, and multifunctional infrastructure development. Her expertise, with stints in North America, Scandinavia, and Switzerland, includes project development and management as well as planning and implementation in the fields of Ecological Engineering & Regenerative Design, Cradle to Cradle\u00ae Design, watershed management, and landscape and greenhouse construction and operation.<\/p>\n

Since 2013, Grit B\u00fcrgow has been active in teaching and research at the TU Berlin. She coordinated the transdisciplinary pilot research of ROOF WATER FARM at the chair of Urban Design and Housing<\/a>. She initiated the project as part of her dissertation on Urban Aquaculture – Water-sensitive transformation of cityscapes via blue-green infrastructures<\/a> and successfully developed together with partners from research and practice. Today, ROOF WATER-FARM, located in Berlin-Kreuzberg and not far from Potsdamer Platz, is a living lab of the StadtManufaktur Berlin<\/a>. aquatectura is primarily responsible for the operation and maintenance of the RWF greenhouse, which is now a co-creative innovation and communication site for the circular and climate city<\/strong> in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Grit B\u00fcrgow has been working in applied research and teaching at TU Berlin since 2013. Until March 2018, she coordinated the transdisciplinary initial research for ROOF WATER-FARM<\/a> at TU Berlin in the Department of Urban Planning and Housing. She developed the project as part of her dissertation on Urban Aquaculture – Water-sensitive transformation of cityscapes via blue-green infrastructures<\/a> in collaboration with partners from research and practice. Today, ROOF WATER FARM<\/a> is located in Berlin-Kreuzberg, not far from Potsdamer Platz, and serves as a living lab for the StadtManufaktur Berlin<\/a> – cooperation and real-world-lab-platform of the TU Berlin. Aquatectura is a cooperation partner and, as the owner of the RWF-greenhouse, primarily responsible for its operation and maintenance. Organized as a collective living lab, startups and project spinoffs such as HydroTower<\/a>, student project workshops, design-build-studios, and people from the neighbourhood and network are valuable partners. The RWF-site is now an internationally renowned educational hub, catalyst, and incubator for the circular city and sponge city in the heart of Berlin. Guided tours, workshops, experiments, up to prototype developments take place here. In 2022, Grit B\u00fcrgow moved to the Science & Society Office of the TU Berlin Executive Board. Since then, she has been working in the field of science-society transfer.<\/p>\n

Her current creative and research interests lie in the design, construction, and operation of mobile blue-green infrastructure<\/strong>. In addition to participatory development and implementation, a central focus is on exploring cooperative operator and management concepts with schools, initiatives, collectives, and even companies. Associated living lab research and transfer and investment projects for climate adaptation combine various horticultural and ecological components with rainwater harvesting and building-related water recycling: e.g., hydroponics, aquaponics as lightweight farm systems that can be integrated into buildings, from vertical to floating; climate-effective urban greenery such as urban wetlands, reed beds, or mini-moors, roof and facade greening, mini-forests\/tiny forests, and riparian forest ecosystems or classic city trees. Partners in this \u201cproject family\u201d include the Beach61<\/a> \u2013 an outdoor sports facility with the Shower-Tower<\/a> as Berlin’s first outdoor vertical farm (BeachFARM) in Gleisdreieckpark<\/a>; the Max-Planck-Gymnasium<\/a>in Berlin-Mitte, the RadBahn<\/a> with its \u00a0Testbed Filter<\/a> beneath the U1 elevated railway in Berlin-Kreuzberg, and the \u00a0living lab Edible Campus<\/a> in Berlin-Charlottenburg, in cooperation with the B!NErLe department \u2013 Education for Sustainable Nutrition and Food Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"AB<\/a>Dr. Anja Br\u00fcll <\/strong>is a landscape architect holding a PhD in environmental planning. Since co-founding aquatectura in 2002, Anja Br\u00fcll has worked internationally on topics of regenerative landscape design<\/strong> and integrated water, land and resource management, e.g. in the context of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification<\/a>, in European research projects or in management consultancy. As a freelancer and partner in various engineering consortia, she has also gained experience in project and quality management, and in construction management. Renewable energy and cycle systems, such as building-integrated photovoltaics and Solar Aquatics<\/a>, are also part of her practice.<\/p>\n

Based on the controversy about the sustainability of bioenergy (plate-tank debate), Anja Br\u00fcll developed a concept for a Landscape Quality Management<\/strong> (LQM) at the Institute for Sustainability Governance<\/a> at the Leuphana University of Lueneburg as part of her dissertation on the topic of sustainable biomass (re)production<\/a>. By investigating and relating different scientific and policy approaches – such as natural productivity and (re)productive economics with landscape functions, ecosystem services and landscape quality objectives \u2013 she developed a standardised, adaptive stakeholder process for assessing and designing sustainable (re)production systems<\/strong>. She shows how biomass management can function as green infrastructure and highlights the central role of “water as a living agent”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As a staff member at the Chair of Landscape Architecture<\/a> at RWTH Aachen University, she continued her research on landscape governance in the European ESPON project LP3LP<\/a> – Landscape Policy for the Three-Country Park. Since 2015, Anja Br\u00fcll works for the Euregio Meuse-Rhine<\/a> as coordinator of the Three-Countries Park<\/a>, a landscape partnership and platform in the border area of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Here she is dedicated to cross-border cooperation in the sense of the European Landscape Convention<\/a>. The development of climate-resilient landscapes<\/strong> together with many local and regional actors in the peri-urban area of Li\u00e8ge, Hasselt (BE), Maastricht (NL) and Aachen (DE) is the main focus (especially since the flood disaster of 2021). But Anja Br\u00fcll also brings her broad expertise to bear on other cross-border challenges, such as spatial planning strategies, the heritage of the underground landscape, or the development of euregional and international projects, presently in PLUS Change<\/a>. Her heartfelt ambition is to connect inner and outer transformation for a regenerative development<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Our partner network<\/strong> includes corporate clients, architectural, planning and engineering firms, as well as educational and research institutions and other organisations such as:<\/p>\n

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\"TUBerlin_Logo_rot_hell_web\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"LOGO_Stadtmanufaktur<\/a><\/td>\n\"WSF<\/a><\/td>\n\"Nolde<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"C2C-NGO-LOGO-zentriert_web_klein-p8b13x7ydzhm93u4finj5bzsznpzk32ozw71ekf4kq\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"EPEA\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"innovativefrauen\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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StadtManufaktur<\/a> c\/o TU Berlin\u00a0I\u00a0WerkStadtForum Berlin<\/a> I<\/span>\u00a0Dreil\u00e4nderpark<\/a> in der Euregio Maas-Rhein<\/a> I\u00a0HydroTower<\/a> – an Urban Farming StartUp and SpinOff of our ROOF WATER-FARM<\/a> project I Ecological Engineering Network<\/a> I Netzwerk Innovative Frauen<\/a>\u00a0I Cradle to Cradle<\/a> I EPEA GmbH<\/a> I hoch C Landschaftsarchitektur<\/a>, I Peri-urpan Regions Platform Europe<\/a> I Nolde & Partner Innovative Wasserkonzepte<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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