ARCH4CHANGE: WHAT WE STAND FOR/

ABOUT ARCH4CHANGE: WHAT WE STAND FOR event on 22nd August 2023:

We think it is important that we help change the narrative: the majority in architecture and the building industry still think that we can engineer our way out of the climate crises (and barely focus on inequalities, the biodiversity crises or the fact that a solution is not sustainable unless it meets users needs and they adopt it and look after it).

So, the ARCH4CHANGE: WHAT WE STAND FOR event will both unfold briefly what the 3 year Erasmus+ Funded project ARCH4CHANGE is about, but through our speakers and the discussions, it is a call to action: we cannot be a carbon neutral or sustainable society without new ways of thinking and new values (e.g. more reuse and transformation, less building new; focusing on social infrastructure, non-humans and biodiversity and planetary health etc). This of course also translates in new ways of doing architecture (and by extension also questions what ‘architecture is’ and our role as architects and planners within it) (e.g. democratic processes, elevating collaboration with others, collective work, small interventions with big impact, ensuring a just transition).

Our invited speakers will share their different ways of working and thinking and what is needed for the radical sustainable transition that is needed in society and architecture.

Speakers:

Siv Helene Stangeland – Helen & Hard Architects, Norway

Dr Hella Hernberg, Helsinki

Maiju Suomi – Suomi- Koivisto architects, Helsinki

Dalia Milián Bernal, Tampere University, Tampere

Efe Ogbeide, Femma Planning, Helsinki

Mirjami Myllymäki, Helsinki

Places are limited so sign up as soon as possible. Face to face only (no recordings).