Events

Discover Trailblazing Thinkers at the Forecast Forum

Margolese National Design for Living award winner Jane Wolff is delivering a special public lecture at Melbourne School of Design on her work framing public conversations about how to manage complex and contested landscapes that are subject to change.

Join us for a pressing conversation about the ongoing efforts to safeguard Ukraine’s cultural heritage

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CITY’SCAPE begins, a two-day event dedicated to LANDSCAPE DESIGN that will showcase the most current themes at the Triennale di Milano. Over 40 speakers from 10 countries, including Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Turkey, Denmark, China, Finland, and Italy, will participate in the eighth edition of the International Symposium and award "CITY’SCAPE - Landscape design as a strategy in climate change for urban and social resilience," scheduled for July 11th and 12th in the prestigious setting of the Salone d’Onore of the Triennale di Milano.

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Material Matters returns in 2024. Based on the critically acclaimed podcast of the same name, the fair brings together over 40 world-leading brands, designers, makers, manufacturers and organisations to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape society.

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense is a celebration of the great, yet under recognised, architect's work and its global impact. Now more than ever, Andrews’ designs are a shining example of how architecture can be used to address urgent environmental and urban concerns.

The workshop "AI multi-agent systems: Creating a Voxel City" is part of DigitalFUTURES 2024, an international community that unites top architects, thinkers, and creative technologists from around the world.

Calling all thousand year thinkers!

The workshop will be held in Abruzzo, near the town of Morro D'Oro (TE), in the heart of the Vomano Valley. The participatory design and self-construction activity will have as its ultimate goal the creation of two different wooden artifacts. The first one will reconnect the paths among the Abruzzo olive groves to a spring historically used by villagers and for years, though functioning, fallen into disuse. The second structure will be a mobile installation, towed by tractor, serving the public activities hosted in the olive grove.
Participants will work and be hosted by the charming oil mill Frantoio Montecchia (Frantoio Montecchia), that overlooks the land, a center not only of production but also a place open to the public for recreational and cultural activities.

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The Workshop "Taller de Arquitectura Maya" invites architecture students and the general public to participate in a week dedicated to the renewal of a Mayan architecture. The event will take place from August 1 to 8 and from August 9 to 16, 2024 in Bécal. The workshop will include a series of talks given by prominent personalities both internationally and nationally. The objective of the workshop is to develop construction skills and, over the course of a week, renovate some of the Mayan houses of inhabitants in economic difficulty, as well as promote the reactivation of rural networks and making participation in this territory more attractive. At the end of the workshop, a cultural event will be organized that will include a local plant weaving workshop, jarana dancing, Mayan poetry recitals and a collective dinner with local inhabitants, thus promoting the reactivation and attractiveness of rural networks in the region.

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Caravanserai Summer School 2024 returns to İzmir/Bergama/Ferizler Village for its third edition between 6 July - 6 August 2024. The project is organized by Depo Pergamon, Meydan Architecture & Design, Strüktür and Poçolana Works with the academic support of Izmir University of Economics and Yaşar University and the institutional support of the Embassy of Spain in Turkey and Bergama Municipality.
Following the collaborative restoration philosophy of Depo Pergamon Workshops, Kervansaray Summer School 2024 will try to promote a new ecological restoration model for rural architecture based on the principle of circular sustainability: Sun, Water, Soil, Straw, Dung, and Wood. To complete the conservation of the pre-existing buildings, natural materials and techniques will be used in harmony with contemporary materials and ways of construction. All the work will be led by the students, but supervised by academicians and experts in vernacular architecture and building techniques.
The Caravanserai Summer School 2024 is mainly open to anyone interested in ecological restoration and vernacular architecture, and specially to students who have to do office or construction site internships. Those who want to participate in the summer school can access more detailed information and application form from the link below. 👇
https://linktr.ee/caravanserai.ferizler
*Application deadline is 21 June 2024. Quota is limited to 15 people.
For any questions or suggestions: depopergamon@gmail.com
Instagram accounts: @caravanserai.ferizler & @depopergamon

Achitectural gifts are everywhere: libraries funded by wealthy philanthropists, shelters donated by humanitarian organizations, farms paid for with development grants, mosques financed by Islamic foundations, and stadiums handed over as part of diplomatic charm offensives. Embedded in religious and imperial traditions of gift-giving, architectural gifts shape the urbanization process across the world. Humanitarian, developmentalist, and diplomatic building-gifts have become ubiquitous in rapidly expanding African, Asian, and South American metropolises and their hinterlands. In North American and European cities, philanthrocapitalists invest in cultural, social, and educational facilities passed down by the dwindling welfare state.

The ICLEI World Congress 2024, hosted by the City of São Paulo, Brazil, is a pivotal gathering focused on advancing sustainable urban development and equitable adaptation to local and regional challenges. Running from 18 – 21 June, this year’s Congress is a journey of reflection and forward-looking vision, emphasizing the critical challenges and opportunities facing cities, towns, and regions due to rising global risks and changes.

Our Klima Biennale 2024 contribution, ‘all surfaces clean at all times’, opens on June 19 at 5 pm in a vacant building in Vienna’s 16th district.

It's difficult to fathom what constitutes appropriate sustainable urbanisation policy amidst persistent systemic inequalities, decaying institutional bodies, and hollow political discourse. In Melbourne School of Design’s third Dean's Lecture of the year, founding director of African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town Professor Edgar Pieterse will explore how to create working and sustainable urban policy in the Global South. In rethinking urban policy, Edgar looks to Africa where emerging urban sustainability experiments are moving communities towards a more just and culturally welcoming environment.

The Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²) aims to provide an open learning space and prototypical infrastructure for the exchange and negotiation of knowledges in architecture, reaching beyond dominating institutions and mainstream discourses. VAS² invites local and international participants to exchange with young architects and established experts all practicing in Vienna and beyond.

AGENCY (noun) is defined as:
1a: the office or function of an agent
1b: the relationship between a principal and that person's agent
2: the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power
3: a person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved
4: an establishment engaged in doing business for another
5: an administrative division (as of a government)

Camposaz 40:40 Trento edition is organized in collaboration with AGATN (Associazione Giovani Architetti Trentino) and Comune di Trento. The workshop is included in "Fiori al centro" festival and in "Trento European Volunteering Capital 2024".