About the EcoCityLabThe EcoCityLab is a design-oriented research centre based at the Berlin University of Technology devoted to explore new urban systems that would contribute to stopping global environmental degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, dependency on oil, and alleviation of urban heat islands, while searching for a new green urban aesthetics for the 21st Century. Specifically, the EcoCityLab explores the aesthetic, spatial, and socio-cultural implications of mixing placed-based urbanism with new green infrastructure systems to produce energy and food, to recycle wastewaters, reuse organic wastes, manage stormwater run off, and to increase evapotranspiration at the scales of the neighbourhood, the district, or the city. The EcoCityLab engages in this exploration by direct design (with our design associates) and by sponsoring and guiding student urban design projects at universities and other academic institutions. In addition, the EcoCityLab advices private and government organisations on sustainable development, it teaches short and long courses on sustainable urbanism, and conducts fieldtrips to exemplary sustainable urban development projects in Europe. The Lab was founded and is directed by Dr. Rafael E. Pizarro (currently DAAD Visiting Professor at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) and co-directed by Jana Milosovicova, urban designer and landscape architect based in Berlin.
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