Join the Rotterdam Academy for Architecture and Urbanism on June 24 to explore the roles that architects and designers can take up around socio-ecological ambitions.

The built environment is one of the largest drivers of natural resource depletion, ecosystem destruction, rising temperatures and more extreme weather conditions, and increasing socioeconomic inequality. Designers and other actors in the production of space play an important role in this and are responsible for developing alternative building practices that help counter these negative trends.

During this gathering new roles that architects and urban designers can take up will be discussed. How can we give shape to a different planning, design culture and construction industry? How can we learn to have positive footprints before a carbon lockdown goes into effect? What does it mean to approach the (built) environment from a perspective of regeneration? What type of architects do we want to be? And how can we do so in a healthy work culture? We want to explore a way of working that goes beyond the competitive model of individual success and soloist genius, towards one of collaboration around socio-ecological ambitions.

About the conference

This work conference marks the end of the 5-year term of Renske van der Stoep and Thijs van Spaandonk as heads of the Masters in Architecture and Urbanism and a celebration of the education programme they introduced, “Design for the Rotterdam Climate Reality”. It will also be used to discuss the future of education at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urbanism.

 

Speakers

Maria Lisogorskaya (Assemble)
Maarten Gielen (Rotor)
Winne van Woerden (Commons Network)

Sessions (in English and Dutch)
Participating guest experts will be announced soon.

How to Cope (a group therapy)
Building Rituals
Designers’ Rebellion
Redesign the School
After Ego Architecture

 

 

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