Welcome
by Torben Nielsen, Rector at Aarhus School of Architecture
Opening of the Opening Architecture Festival 2021.
Thursday 7 October 2021
09.00-09.05
Welcome
09.05-09.20
Staying With The Trouble
by Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss and Boris Brorman Jensen
The moderators of the architecture festival Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss and Boris Brorman Jensen introduce the theme Staying With The Trouble. Economist Kate Raworth will join on video.
According to Kate Raworth, addressing the global challenges of both poverty and overconsumption is the key to thinking like a 21st-century economist. Her profound message to stop chasing eternal growth has been heard worldwide. Here, Kate Raworth will offer her guidance on how we as architects can turn her radical ideas for a new economy into architectural action.
09.20-10.00
Elke Krasny
Caring for a Broken Planet
Based on the book and the exhibition ‘Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet’ (2019), together with Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny unfolds how architecture and urbanism can contribute to bringing the planet back to life. Rejecting the mantra of an ever-expanding economy based on exploitation of limited resources Krasny challenges the fundamentals of architectural practices.
Elke Krasny (AT) is an architecture theorist, curator, author and professor (PhD) of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has received the Outstanding Artist Award for Women’s Culture.
10.00-11.00
Andrés Jaque and Niklas Maak
Constituting the Critique: Architecture in between Pop Culture, Experiments and Idiosyncrasies
How can architecture respond to the many current global challenges as a critical practice? Is there a way to confront ‘business as usual’ from within the system? Architect, writer and curator Andrés Jaque joins architectural professor and critic Niklas Maak in an elaborate exchange of thoughts and suggestions on how to revitalize architecture as a practice of critical projection.
Andrés Jaque (ES) is an architect, author, curator, and founder of the Office for Political Innovation. He has received the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts as well as the Silver Lion in Venice (2014) and the Dionisio Hernández-Gil Prize.
Niklas Maak (DE) is an architect, architecture theorist, professor (PhD), author and arts editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has received the George F. Kennan Prize, the Henri Nannen Prize, and the COR Prize for Architectural Critique.
11.00-12.00
Eyal Weizman
Space as Evidence: Surveillance and Research in the Anthropocene
Using architecture and other spatial fabrications as forensic tools and evidence to unveil injustice and crimes, the British architect Eyal Weizman has broken new ground for architectural practice and research. In his keynote, Weizman will share examples of his latest works and tell about the reactions that his far-reaching critical practice is causing.
Eyal Weizman (UK) is an architect, professor (PhD), author and founding director of Forensic Architecture. Among many recognitions, Weizman is one of the ‘100 Global Minds: The Most Daring Cross-Disciplinary Thinkers in the World’ and a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
12.00-13.00
Lunch
13.00-14.00
Anupama Kundoo
Architecture vs. Acceleration
Meet Anupama Kundoo in a slow conversation on time. Kundoo deliberately works slowly, optimizing her design through profound research based on materials that minimize environmental effects. Focusing on traditional craft traditions and construction techniques, she insists on an architecture based on strong social and human ideals and managed by giving time a voice.
Anupama Kundoo (IN) is an architect and professor (PhD). Anupama Kundoo has received multiple Architect of the Year awards and created prominent works of architecture, such as Auroville in India, featured in exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and the Venice Architecture Biennale.
14.00-15.00
All together
The moderators Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss and Boris Brorman Jensen together with all keynotes.
15.00-16.00
Pause
16.00-16.50
Jenny Osuldsen
The One Who Holds the Pen Has the Power
Listen to Jenny Osuldsen as she presents a series of contextual examinations, rather than isolated masterpieces, and discusses why Snøhetta’s architecture is associative rather than symbolic, comments rather than statements, attitudes rather than designs. Every story told is a shared experience of contemporary conditions set within a given frame, where the one who holds the pen has the power.
Jenny Osuldsen (NO) is an architect, professor (Honorary Doctor) and partner in Snøhetta. The studio’s projects include iconic architecture on Times Square in New York, The Library in Alexandria, Egypt, and the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture in Saudi Arabia, all led by Osuldsen.
16.50-17.00
Karen Kjærgaard
Thank you and see you tomorrow
17.00-20.00
Networking
Drinks and Djs.
