1. Role of Scalability within Campus Sustainability
Scalability Breakout Session
Prof. Kerstin Höger, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Architect and Urban Designer Zürich
Prof. Bojan Baletić, University of Zagreb,
Vice-Rector Master Planning and Inter-institutional Cooperation
ISCN HARVARD MIT, 01/06/2014, PROF. KERSTIN HÖGER NTNU, PROF. BOJAN BALETIĆ UNIZG

2. Scalability Objective
Enable the development of scalable models for sustainable solutions that can
be replicated in diverse organizational, geographic, political, and cultural
contexts to achieve greater impact both locally and globally.
Scalability in a Next Generation Framework
Position our organizations for accelerated and expanded impact through more
strategic approaches to develop sustainable models that are scalable across
diverse contexts.
Goals of the organizers

3. Should our local efforts be designed intentionally to be scaled up or down to be
replicated in other settings?
How can universities leverage core research and teaching models to better
scale sustainability training world-wide?
What are the emerging approaches that will push the boundaries for advancing
scalable models for sustainability?
Why are current approaches to developing sustainable solutions failing to have
the global impact needed?
What will it take to scale up sustainability practices, technologies, concepts,
processes?
Questions by the organizers

4. Cambridge from Civitates Orbis Terrarum by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg,1575

5. Oxford Collegiate University, map by John Speed 1605

6. Plan of pub stops in Cambridge

7. Vitruvian Man (Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio), Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490

8. R.I.P.s Recycled Individual Products, Freitag.ch, founded 1993

9. “Diogene”, micro home, Renzo Piano, 2013

10. “Diogene”, off the grid living

11. “Diogene”, autarkic

12. Conference and book publication, 2006-07

14. Science City ETH Zürich, master plan KCAP 2004

15. Science City ETH Zürich, aerial photo 2012

16. ETH Science City strategies and local-global network

17. Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD),
master plan Kerstin Höger Architekten with MKPL and Sassaki, 2008-10

18. SUTD natural light and ventilation, Kerstin Höger Architekten, 2009

19. SUTD public campus ground and mixed academic-living area, Kerstin Höger Architekten, 2009

20. SUTD architecture part 1, Un Studio 2011

21. SUTD construction site, 2013

22. Sustainable campus design guidelines, Kerstin Höger

23. Are we asking the right questions on the right scales?
Should our local efforts be designed intentionally to be scaled up or down to be
adapted – but not replicated – to other settings?
How can universities leverage core research and teaching models to better
scale sustainability training world-wide? be responsive to the context?
What are the emerging approaches that will push the boundaries for advancing
scalable models for sustainability? (re)contextualize
Why are current approaches to developing sustainable solutions failing to have
the global impact needed? (scientifically) too reductionist – too general?
What will it take to scale up sustainability practices, technologies, concepts,
processes? products and technologies are non-infinitely scalable,
concepts, strategies and processes to a certain extent, sustainable
architecture and urban design has to consider the specific context!
ISCN HARVARD MIT, 01/06/2014, PROF. KERSTIN HÖGER NTNU, PROF. BOJAN BALETIĆ UNIZG

24. Program Scalability Breakout Session
Discussion of scalability in the context of the gained insights
Exploration and definition of scalability
within campus sustainability
Detection of scalability attributes for sustainable solutions
Framing scalability
ISCN HARVARD MIT, 01/06/2014, PROF. KERSTIN HÖGER NTNU, PROF. BOJAN BALETIĆ UNIZG