Methods and results of the International Design Workshop S.A.F.E. - Sustainable and Accessible Future for Everybody

As the director of the committee, it is a great honour for me to hold our firstInternational Design Workshop here at the THM in Gießen. The workshop is called S. A. F. E. - “Sustainable and Accessible Future for Everybody - and it is aimed at improving the students knowledge on the current social changes. We want to develop new projects for housing and common spaces by designing inclusive, flexibleand sustainable architectural solutions, especially for our city of Gießen. As a reaction to the huge number of refugees who have arrived in Germany, including in Gießen, within the past year, we have been involved in various discussions about how this phenomenon could change our society and our daily life. Designers, architects and engineers have to think about the new needs of society, taking into account right from the beginning the requirements of refugees, children, the elderly and the increasing number of students.