Facts:
Time: 2021-02-05
Location: Online
Organiser: SLU Urban Futures, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Prof. Lisa Diedrich, Dr Sonia Curnier, designCONTENT/Andrea Kahn)
Urban Arena, Lund University (Assoc. Prof. Per-Johan Dahl)
Urban Forum - Rethinking Design Processes
Last changed: 03 December 2021
This first digital version of the Urban Forum offered an opportunity to thrive on the exchanges between practitioners and thinkers sharing the same vision of the responsibility of design in the face of the spatial challenges of contemporary societies.
In the times of multiple crises that we are facing, design – as an activity, a process and a result – should contribute to building more sustainable, safe, healthy, democratic and socially inclusive living environments. But what defines conscious and high-quality design and how can it be achieved?
Practitioners and thinkers of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, urban studies and the construction industry were invited to discuss their designs (realised or not) and research endeavours (practice-based or -oriented) in an online Urban Forum. Sessions dedicated to each project allowed the authors to discuss burning questions, critical aspects, inspiring findings they wish to bring to light and get feedback on, in a collegial atmosphere. Project authors presented their work in a 7x7 format (7 slides – 7 minutes), followed by a moderated discussion of 14 minutes.
Programme 5 February
14.00h Introduction
Per-Johan Dahl, Urban Arena, Lund University, Sweden
Sonia Curnier, SLU Urban Futures, Sweden
Andrew Gallagher, SLU Urban Futures, Sweden
14.15h Design as loom
Tomà Berlanda, architect & co-founder, a studio.space,
and professor of architecture, University of Cape Town,
South Africa
Sunniva Viking, architect & co-founder, a studio.space,
Cape Town, South Africa
14.40h Vasaplan : a waiting square
Åsa Drougge, Göran Lindberg and Stina Hellqvist,
Nivå Landscape architecture, Stockholm Sweden
15.05h Governor's Cup: Waste as Architecture
Victoria Rospond, CDR Studio, New York City, USA
15.30h Econef Children’s center
Frida Öster, Asante Architecture & Design, Stockholm, Sweden
15.55h Break
16.20h Toward Anti-strategic Urban Design
Nils Björling, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
16.45h Silent Landscapes
Gijs de Haan, Corné Strootman, Kollektief,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
17.10h Micro-University Haus Bräutigam
Maria Frölich-Kulik, Jessica Christoph and Till Hoffmann,
Haus Bräutigam e.V., Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
17.35h Closing discussion
Moderator:
Andrew Gallagher, SLU Urban Futures
Andrea Kahn, SLU Urban Futures and designCONTENT, New York, USA
The Urban Forum is a format fostering exchanges between practice and academia, in a collegial atmosphere. The safe space we offer should allow everyone to speak freely about ongoing projects and unresolved issues, to share intuitions and bold ideas they wish to bring to light and get feedback on. For this reason, the sessions will not be recorded and the audience is limited to presenters and their colleagues.
The online Urban Forum is planned as a recurring event and will be held regularly during 2021. If you wish to take part in a future session you are warmly invited to answer our next call for projects (check our website and social media for updates).