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Prof. Dr. Vanessa Borkmann

The FutureHotel Innovation Network as part of the Fraunhofer Institute is the leading think tank and innovation laboratory for research and development of pioneering hotel solutions. This network of experts has been researching for over ten years and is currently in its sixth research phase. Topics like the future hotel room, current and future needs of guests, new work environment within the hotel, the use and potential of technology in the hotel industry, digital transformation such as innovative concepts form the main parts of the research areas. Even before the pandemic, there were many innovations in the hotel industry. Is the crisis the great opportunity to bring new ideas and concepts to the hotel market?

Today we are talking to Prof. Dr. Vanessa Borkmann, head of research work in the hotel and tourism sector at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO.
 



Ambrish Arora

Constructing to continue history and existing buildings is an interplay of challenges and opportunities. One strategy is to persist in a museum-like preservation of the past, another strategy is to courageously continue building with history.
The roots of Studio Lotus lie in learning history and local environment. They follow an iterative and incremental methodology of innovation. Studio Lotus takes a deep contextual approach to its work and combines this with a strong focus on tactile and sensory qualities of space. Their design process looks at sustainability through multiple lenses of cultural, social and environmental impacts. There is an active engagement in integrating local skills and resources with state of the art materials and technologies.

We talk to Ambrish Arora from Studio Lotus in New Delhi / India about this approach and its challenges.
 



Giacomo Garziano

The need for healthy homes has hardly ever been more apparent than during the present global condition. The current efforts to reduce the negative impacts of buildings are inadequate. Therefore, we need to start rethinking the way we design our built environment. With a fascination for the principles of biophilic design, GG-loop has developed the concept of Mitosis, a holistic, regenerative, collective ecosystem. The name refers to the biological process of a single cell dividing itself into two identical daughter cells. It represents the modularity and the long-term adaptation of the system and serves as a metaphor for a flexible co-living organism. In this structure each residential unit coexists in symbiosis with all the others.
In today's podcast episode we talk to Giacomo Garziano from GG-loop about the balancing act of building for the client and the environment at the same time, and are excited to learn more about the concept of Biophilic Design.
 




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