PROGRAMME

09.15 – 10.15

PERIS+TORAL

SOCIAL DWELLING AND URBAN TISSUES

Marta Peris and José Toral, from the award-winning studio in Barcelona, are dedicated to researching new forms of living in conjunction with new ways of building. Addressing climate and housing crises, the duo challenges predefined standards in social housing by combining spatial innovation with sustainable building materials.

Martha Peris & José Toral (ES): Architects and Founders, Peris+Toral Arquitectes

Moderator: Nuria Casais (ES): Assistant Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture

Language: EN

10.35 – 11.35 

BONAVENTURE SOH BEJENG NDIKUNG

THE POLITICS OF GOOD INTENTIONS AND DELUSIONS OF CARE

We need alternative paths for rehabilitation, restoration and care. But how do notions of care appear from a non-western perspective- what can be considered as and who gives care, and for what reasons? Must care primarily rest on a foundational care for justice – or through a more ordinary practice?

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (CM): Director and Chief Curator, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Moderator: Awa Konaté (CI/DK): Founder of Culture Art Society (CAS) & Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Language: EN

13.30 – 14.30

BENT MADSEN, FILIPA ROSETA & METTE MECHLENBORG

HOME AS A SOCIAL CONDITION

A vivid cocktail of politics, reality and extra-ordinary visions when knowledge and power meet to discuss the role of social housing as a fundament for democracy and welfare in Europe. Time to rethink the foundations.

Bent Madsen (DK): CEO of BL – Danish Social Housing, Presidency of Housing Europe
Filipa Roseta (PT): City Councillor for Lisbon’s Housing and Municipal Works
Mette Mechlenborg (DK): Head of Division and Senior Reseacher at BUILD, Aalborg University

Moderator: Finn Williams (UK): City Architect, Malmø

Language: EN

15.00 – 16.00 

BEATRIZ COLOMINA & MARK WIGLEY

WE THE BACTERIA

Weaving together history, philosophy, technology, and critical theory, Colomina & Wigley re-enters the architectural discourse, moving towards a biotic architecture. How can we challenge conventional distinctions between the natural and artificial, the human and non-human, the designed and undesigned?

Beatriz Colomina (ES/US): Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture, Princeton University
Mark Wigley (US): Professor and Dean Emeritus, Columbia University, New York

Moderator: Matīss Groskaufmanis (LV): Associate Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture

Language: EN