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Design Week is a biannual event hosted by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Universidad de la Costa (Barranquilla, Colombia), established in 2019. It serves as an exhibition and competition space where results from emerging classroom creative processes are presented, bridging them with the realities of professional practice. Through presentations before a national and international jury, the event aims to showcase and share the achievements reflected in classroom teaching and learning dynamics, highlighting interdisciplinary knowledge from all academic programs within the Department to the university community.

On November 25th, architect and urban planner Adriana Levisky, partner at Levisky Arquitetos | Estratégia Urbana, will give a talk at the 20th edition of FLIP, an important Brazilian cultural event where literature encompasses various urban themes brought into focus during the literary festival.

Wellness and Well-Being in Coworking Spaces is an online event brought to you by the makers of the book “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” a global guide on coworking concepts, business models and founding stories. This event is an exploration, one that will take you from Berlin to London, Vancouver, and Amsterdam to meet founders and teams of coworking spaces who’ve used wellness and well-being as a means of differentiation.

This November 24th, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) will organise its first online Open Day of the current Academic Year. Join us and get the opportunity to speak with our Faculty about specific courses, discover IAAC’s facilities, and discuss about learning or living in Barcelona.

The Circular by Design Innovation Festival takes place as part of Design Week Ireland 2022. It is co-hosted by NCAD, the Creative Futures Academy and the Design & Crafts Council Ireland, and made possible with the support of the CIRCULÉIRE Innovation Fund and DCCl through Enterprise Ireland.

As the growing complexity of our world presents us with ever-growing challenges at an unprecedented speed, our built environment has become one of our society’s most critical questions. From energy scarcity to inequality, density, diversity, waste, food production, circular economy, and identity—it all converges into the built environment. To face this, architecture needs to evolve and scale. 

During the last century, our profession has followed a linear evolution since the breakthrough of modernism, but the growing pressures have laid out the perfect scenario to push architecture to take its next leap. We see an increasing number of architects questioning the way we organize and practice, seeking to have a wider, stronger, faster, and more scalable impact. And they are choosing to do things in a new way, creating new practices, companies, collectives, or startups that are leading the revolution with their new approaches, proposals, and solutions, and inspiring others to join. 

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Edited by Sérgio M. Marques, César Vieira, and Eneida R. Ströher, with the collaboration of the Bered family, the book will be launched during the 70th-anniversary celebrations of the UFRGS Faculty of Architecture.

'Design is not about solving technical problems or only about beauty,' says lighting planner extraordinaire Ulrike Brandi. 'It's a social profession and we have very big challenges right now", she adds.

On Saturday, November 19, at 5:00 PM, the Institute of Architects of Brazil – São Paulo Department (IABsp) will open the exhibition "Black Widow in Motion," featuring audiovisual art installations and projections of historical images of the iconic work by American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898–1976). This cultural activity is part of the implementation of the "Black Widow: Management and Conservation Plan," which will be launched at 5:30 PM on the same day and at the same location, with the presence of authors Silvio Oksman, Sabrina Fontenele, and Renato Anelli, who are also the exhibition’s curators.

The launch of Materia Arquitectura 22: Aire will take place on Thursday, November 24, at 6:30 PM in the Patio de las Rosas at the Los Leones campus. The event will feature Pedro Ignacio Alonso, guest editor of this issue and head of the PhD program in Architecture and Urban Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, the first edition of the Norman Foster Foundation's public debates will be held at the Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos in Madrid, Spain, with the support of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. The conference and subsequent debate will feature a panel of experts and a conversation between two Pritzker Prize laureates: Norman Foster, President of the Norman Foster Foundation, and Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, Executive Director of ELEMENTAL.

This symposium explores concerns central to the history and theory of architecture today. Formed around three panels featuring invited speakers and contributions from the cohort, the event addresses the missing links in relationships between histories, theories, and the practice of architecture; architecture and related disciplinary fields; and the voices, bodies, and stories omitted from the canon.

Various initiatives have been promoted by public authorities aimed at the recovery of São Paulo's central area, whether focusing on buildings, seeking ways to encourage private investment in the restoration of underutilized or vacant properties, or focusing on open public spaces, such as the squares remaining from road interventions that are the subject of an international public competition.

The fourth edition of "Jornal Coletivo," to be distributed for free in November, explores the theme of creativity. This focus is informed by the Cannes Advertising Festival, which ranks Brazil as the third most creative country in the world, trailing only the United States and the United Kingdom.

Since its inception, UNStudio has been known as a speculative practice, producing real world projects through the means of research, experimentation, testing, and conceptual frameworks.

This exhibition demonstrates how the principles of the circular economy can help create more sustainable, net zero architecture for the future.

Discover what’s happening at the Melbourne School of Design at MSDx Summer 2022, as the building is transformed into a multi-floor gallery showcasing hundreds of pieces of studio work by talented students in one of Australia's largest design exhibitions.

Tokyo and New York-based Ippodo Gallery will present Extreme Surfaces, an exhibition of contemporary Japanese kogei (art and craft), November 30–December 4 at Design Miami 2022 (booth G36). The installation will feature works by twenty two living artists including Kodai Ujiie, Yukiya Izumita, Terumasa Ikeda and Hirotomi Maeda, with a focus on the juxtaposition of the surfaces of three distinct object types. Shigeru Uchida’s stunning life-sized tea house will play host to a traditional Japanese tea service each day at 3PM. Marking the gallery’s debut at the fair, Extreme Surfaces comes on the heels of the opening of Susumu Shingu’s landmark Sculpting with Wind exhibit, which is running at Ippodo’s New York location through December 29, 2022.