Panel discussion: How to architect alternative futures and beyond…?
I
oA / Institute of Architecture
On the occasion of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale
di Venezia, the I oA, Institute of Architecture of the University of Applied Arts Vienna cordially invites you to join us
for a panel discussion, as part of the Biennale Sessions.
Saturday,
May 20, 2023, 4:00 to 5:30pm
La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini, Central Pavilion, Sala F
With Lina
Ghotmeh (Lina Ghotmeh Architects, Paris), Hanif Kara (AKT II, London; Harvard GSD, Cambridge), Mpho
Matsipa (Harvard GSD, Cambridge), Sam Jacob (Sam Jacob Studio, London) in conversation
with three selected students from I oA: Jasmy Chieh Hsuan Chen, Katharina Sauermann, Adham Sinan.
Curated
by Baerbel Mueller (I oA, University of Applied Arts Vienna; nav_s baerbel mueller)
With
a welcome by Gerald Bast (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
The panel
discussion “How to architect alternative futures and beyond…?” brings together practitioners and theorists from within the
architectural field alongside those from the next generation of architects to critically talk through and dream of architecting
(verb) in the near future, questioning the roles of researching, narrating, designing and planning architecture, and space-making
in the context of a fragile world. Notions of surprise, beauty, connectivity, healing and diversity in architecture will be
discussed. How can spatial practices contribute to visionary – while at the same time, tangible – ecological, technological
and decolonized futures, from the very local to the planetary, beyond human-centered interests? What radically other perspectives
and modi operandi do we need to invent and apply?
