Nick Förster

Technische Universität München | TUM · Department of Architecture

Smart Cities are presented as a straightforward solution to diverse urban problems. On a closer look, however, the discourse on ‘Smart Cities’ seems wicked in various ways: vaguely defined, speculative, and fragmented into incommensurable positions. Focussing on this ‘wickedness,’ we explore the potential of design approaches to pervade the obscuri...

Microscopic agent-based simulations promise the meaningful inclusion of crowd dynamics in planning processes. However, such complex urban issues depend on a multiplicity of criteria. Thus, an isolated model cannot represent the walk of pedestrians meaningfully in planning contexts. This paper reframes crowd simulation as collaborative experimentati...

„Stufen und Stacheldraht – ein interventionistisches Portrait der Baustelle“ setzt sich mit dem Phänomen der Baustelle im öffentlichen Raum auseinander. Auf einer architektur- und stadttheoretischen Ebene untersucht die Arbeit Bauprozesse „von innen nach außen“: beginnend mit der Betrachtung des soziomateriellen Zusammenspiels der Akteure, bis hin...

Contemporary agent-based pedestrian simulations offer great potential to evaluate architectural and urban design proposals in terms of medical risks, crowd safety, and visitor comfort. Nevertheless, due to their relative computational heaviness and complicated input-parameters, pedestrian simulations are not employed during the design process commo...

The graphic novel "Monaco Komplex" experimentally rereads the architectural history of Munich. While the city is mostly known for its petrifying boredom, its architecture tells another story: A suppressed epos of built trauma, lost modernity, and architectural erotism. Link to Publication: //www.fink.de/view/book/edcoll/9783846763742/BP000017.xml