1. 2009-04-17 Implementation of Architectural Policies – New Expectations Prague, April 2009 Joined up thinking: The founding of the HafenCity University Hamburg

2. 2009-04-17 Tradition of Excellence in the Built Environment Foto: www.mediaserver.hamburg.de

3. 2009-04-17 Tradition of Excellence in the Built Environment Foto: W. Meinhart

4. 2009-04-17 Policy: Quality architecture and urban design for competitive advantage and as motors of growth »Growing City »Leap across the Elbe »HafenCity »International Building Exhibition »International Garden Show »Klimastadt Hamburg »The HafenCity University Foto: www.mediaserver.hamburg.de

5. 2009-04-17 Importance of architecture, urban design and planning education »Architecture courses at the Fachhochschule and at the Art College »Long standing desire from the profession to raise the quality of architecture education in Hamburg »Founding of the HafenCity University in January 2006 »Architecture from the Fachhochschule and the Art College »Civil engineering and Geomatics from the Fachhochschule »Urban planning from the Technical University »On five locations across Hamburg until completion of building in the HafenCity in 2012

6. 2009-04-17 The University of the Built Environment and Metropolitan Development »Premise: Challenges facing the built environment are urgent and complex and require new ways of working.

7. 2009-04-17 Starting Points for the HCU »Sustainable solutions address spatial, ecological, social, cultural and economic challenges »Academic Content »Disciplinarity: excellence in a subject »Interprofessionalism: understanding of and respect for related disciplines--how they think, what they value, as a precondition for creative cooperation »Transdisciplinarity: openness towards radically different ways of thinking, seeing and responding »Focus on metropolises »Issues facing the built environment are public ones »The HCU has the responsibility to inform and challenge public and professional opinion »The new building must support these values architecturally

8. 2009-04-17 Transcending Boundaries

9. 2009-04-17 Object and subject of urban development in Hamburg »Public forum »Set standards in sustainability

10. 2009-04-17 Autumn 2012