Dec 17, 2022
Wolfgang Wende and team receive award for teaching at TU Dresden
One of the Teaching Awards of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Technische Universität Dresden e. V. 2022 goes to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wende, Institute of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture. Together with his team, he is awarded in the category "Ecological Sustainability" for the course "Bauleitplanung” (Urban Land Use Planning) at the Chair of Urban Development.
With the Teaching Awards 2022, the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Technische Universität Dresden (GFF) aims to honour teaching and learning concepts from the academic year 2021/22 dedicated to the topics of “Entrepreneurship” or “Ecological Sustainability” and which creatively prepare them and implement them in a forward-looking manner. The course Bauleitplanung (Urban Land-use Planning) realised by the Chair of Urban Development was nominated by the students and staff for the 2022 Teaching Award in “Ecological Sustainability”. The awards were presented on 14 December during the 35th meeting of the TU Dresden Senate.
The board of the GFF, together with the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Prof. Kolbe, decided to award the prize to Prof. Wende and his team. The justification states: "Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wende, Dr. Alejandro de Castro Mazarro, Anna Dietrich and Vanessa Thiem jointly receive the GFF teaching award for the implementation of the lecture and exercise "Bauleitplanung" (urban land use planning) as offered by the Faculty of Architecture. The teaching approach of this course is based on the recognition that further pure efficiency increases in the building sector and urban development are not sufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. The concept of Minimal Urbanism derived from this is highly innovative and thus also influences the currently developing debate on sustainability in the building sector. Congratulations!" Questions of the necessity and the underlying need for building projects are emphasised before structural or other design solutions are discussed. The concept of “minimal urbanism”, i. e. the smallest possible intervention in the urban landscape, lies at the heart of students’ experimentation and planning.
In the year 2010 Prof. Wolfgang Wende was jointly appointed to the Chair of Urban Development by the TU Dresden and the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development. At the IOER, he heads the research area "Landscape, Ecosystems and Biodiversity".
More information on the Teaching Awards
(Link: https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/profil/freunde-foerderer/gff/foerderung/Lehrpreis-der-Gesellschaft-von-Freunden-und-Foerderern-der-TU-Dresden-e-V?set_language=en)
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