Exhibition Opening: Too Hot Scorching Cities, New Ideas

Friday, June 19, 7 p.m.
DAM Auditorium 

Speakers
PETER CACHOLA SCHMAL, Director Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
TINA ZAPF-RODRÍGUEZ, Dezernentin für Klima, Umwelt und Frauen der Stadt Frankfurt am Main

Presentation of the exhibition:
JONAS MALZAHN
KATHARINA BÖTTGER
MATHIAS SCHNELL
(STUDIO CENTRAL)
CURATORS 

Owing to climate change, cities are getting ever hotter – with tangible consequences. Heat, drought, water scarcity, and flooding, all make it clear how urgently urban spaces need to be rethought and redesigned. Since cities cause the lion’s share of CO₂ emissions they also bear a special responsibility in this regard – for example, when
converting infrastructure and public spaces. Many of them seek to become climate-neutral over the next 15 years. What does that mean for the future, for planning, architecture, and life in cities? Too Hot presents examples from 13 European cities with
different climates, ranging from small towns to metropolises. They are all responding to the climate crisis, and they are all taking concrete measures for climate protection
and adaptation; the spectrum ranges from built projects or strategic planning to civil society initiatives. The exhibition visualizes the very many different shapes
this change can take and outlines the social issues and debates on public policy that go hand in hand with it.