Contemporary Practice. Beyond the Crisis. Leadership - Construction - Design
What, When, and Where
19-20 May, Auditorium F2, Lindstedtsvägen 28, KTH, Stockholm
Contemporary Practice. Beyond the Crisis invites designers, clients, developers, and educators to discuss interdisciplinary challenges affecting the built environment. Regional and international speakers with multi-disciplinary backgrounds will initiate discussions about: political vision and the built environment (Leadership); specialisation, scale and region (Construction); process, fabrication, education (Design). The initiative supports the Research Cluster Design and Technology for a Sustainable Built Environment launched by the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH, in January 2010.
Organisers details
The symposium is organised by Architectural Technologies Research at the School of Architecture, KTH through Tim Anstey, Hanif Kara, Lina Martinsson and Erik Törnkvist.
The event is organised in association with the cross-department Forum for Industrial Building Practices (KTH FIND) and in collaboration with Stockholms Arkitektförening
Tickets
350 sek www.ticnet.se, tel. 077-170 70 70
Enquiries
All information for the symposium is found on the website. Telephone enquiries should be addressed to Agneta Lundberg, School of Architecture, KTH-A, +46 8 790 8542
Programme
| Wednesday 19 May | |
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| 08.30 | Registration/ coffee |
| 09.00.00 | Symposium opening |
| Session 1: | Leadership - Political vision and the built environment |
| 09.15 – 10.00 | Christer Larsson, Director of Development, Malmö |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Kristina Alvendal, Vice Mayor at City of Stockholm, City Planning and Real Estate Division |
| 10.45 –11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 11.45 | Sarah Jackson, Director of Design Review, CABE, UK |
| 11.45 – 12.30 | Klaus Bode, Founding Partner, BDSP, London |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| Session 2: | Construction - Specialisation, scale and region |
| 14.00 – 14.45 | Hugh Whitehead, Specialist Modeling Group, Foster and Partners, London |
| 14.45 – 15.30 | Frank Barkow, Director, Barkow Leibinger Arkitekten |
| 15.30 –15.45 | Coffee break |
| 15.45 – 16.30 | Rikard Espling, Departmental Director, Skanska Sweden |
| 16.30 – 17.15 | Jesper Nielsen, Director, CINARK, Copenhagen |
| 17.15 – 18.00 | Roundtable Discussion |
| Thursday 20 May | |
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| 08.30.00 | Registration/coffee |
| Session 3: | Design - Process, fabrication, education |
| 09.15 – 10.00 | Ole Gustavsson, Partner, Snöhetta, Oslo |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Erik Stening, Director, Skandinaviska Glassystem, Gothenburg |
| 10.45 – 11.30 | Iñaki Ábalos/ Renata Sentkiewicz - Abalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos |
| 11.30 – 13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 – 13.45 | Cristiano Ceccato, Associate, Zaha Hadid Architects, London |
| 13.45 – 14.30 | Neri Oxman, Architect & Researcher, MIT, Cambridge |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Closing Discussion |
