Welcome to the second edition of Sustainable Façades, a Special Issue of the
Design Strategies Magazine produced by the Institute for Design Strategies (IDS)
of TH OWL in Detmold, Germany. We are happy to be back, this time reporting
the activities of the Winter Semester 2023-2024. We are grateful that over 1400
people downloaded the previous issue between between November 2023 and
April 2024.
Sustainable Façades was originally intended as a digital-only resource. However,
further actions were taken after the successful realization of the first issue as a
proof of concept, and the encouraging feedback obtained at it‘s public release
during the European Façade Network Conference in Detmold, on November
2023. Sustainable Façades was developed into an indexed magazine, and in
January 2024, 150 issues were printed and distributed at the IDS, providing a
printed issue to every contributor and the rest offered free of charge at the front
desk of the IDS until they run out. The release of digital and printed media will be
repeated in this second edition or “volume 2”.
We hope this issue will resonate with our readers and we extend the invitation
for contributions and feedback to expand our outreach, fine-tune our processes
and grow our network for the next issues of Sustainable Façades.