Animals live in our cities and have become their inhabitants. The article “A different kind of neighbour” by Petra Ahne (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) deals with how animals can be integrated into urban planning and gives examples of projects that have already been realized.

FAZ: A different kind of neighbour

The third issue 2022 of the journal Architect Victoria, the official magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects, deals with the topic “Design for all life / Architecture and planning”. The studio Animal-Aided Design is also represented with an article.

To read in the current issue (52-55 p.) and online at:

Architect Victoria, Edition 3 / 2022

Weisser, Wolfgang, W., & Thomas E. Hauck. 2022. “Animal-aided design.” Architect Victoria 3: 52-55.

The studio Animal-aided design was involved in a radio report for the programme “Zündfunk Generator” on Bayern2. It is about animals in urban space and the questions of how urban fauna is currently doing and how habitats in the city can be saved.

Zündfunk Generator – broadcast date:

Sunday, 23/10/2022, 22:05 (10/23/2022, 10:05 pm) on Bayern2 and now as a podcast.

Zündfunk Generator – Bayern2

Different cities, different players, one goal: urban nature. In the hectic everyday life of a big city one often doesn’t even realize the abundance of species in our cities and communities. But as numerous studies show, cities often have a much higher richness of species compared to the surrounding landscape, as they offer various habitats and ideal locational conditions in a very small space.

The studio Animal-Aided Design was involved in the video clip “Stadtnatur: Artenreicher Leben – Tierfreundliche Gebäude und Quartiere (Urban nature: increasing biodiversity in your daily life – animal-friendly buildings and neighborhoods)” by the German Federal Environment Ministry which draws attention in particular to animal species that inhabit buildings. This is because roofs and facades of buildings offer habitats which function as refuges for endangered, rare and legally protected animals and plants. To ensure that animals and plants will find these conditions in urban open spaces in the future, various players promote the creation and maintenance of suitable habitats: from nesting boxes on buildings, to vegetation areas on roofs and in the surrounding area, down to the use of animal-friendly light sources in public open spaces. In order to provide valuable habitats for animals, it is essential to integrate the needs of species into landscape architecture and urban design.

The video is available on YouTube:

Urban nature – animal-friendly buildings and neighborhoods

In the context of the exhibition Cohabitation in June 2021 in Berlin, the biologist Wolfgang W. Weisser, the architect Marc Frohn and the landscape architect Thomas E. Hauck wrote the “Manifesto for an Architecture of Cohabitation”. The manifesto was currently published in ARCH+features 108 and is part of the exhibition “Architectures of Cohabitation” at SCHAU FENSTER, Lobeckstr. 30 in Berlin.

Ausstellung Architectures of Cohabitation
ARCH+ 247 Cohabitation
Manifest für eine Architektur der Cohabitation

Studio Animal-Aided Design was commissioned to apply AAD to the open space of Biotopia – the Natural History Museum of Bavaria in Munich – as part of the new planning of the museum. We are looking forward to the cooperation with Atelier Loidl and Staab Architekten.

We are happy to inform you since August on our new homepage about the work of Studio Animal-Aided Design. In this section we will give you news about our practical work with the method Animal-Aided Design (AAD). Furthermore, we will point out new results and publications that arise in the context of the research on AAD.