The World Congress ’22 programme brings together voices 📢 from across professions ✏️ and global contexts 🌐 for two days of presentations, discussion panels and case studies. We will explore the ways in which we can learn 💭 from the past to act in the present out of concern for the future, focusing on how we build 🏡 from here by asking ‘what with?’ 🔨 and ‘who for?’ 👀
Over four sessions across two days, we will focus on pressing issues facing the built environment in communities around the world. No matter where you are, you can join the conversation in person or online to determine #howwebuildfromhere.
Day 1 ‘What With?’
A building can be no better than what it is made of – and the same can be said of any green agenda and the words chosen to shape it. The morning session will look at the language of ‘better building’: at where words point to positive impact and change, as well as at how words can be used to apply a coat of greenwash to unsustainable policies and designs. The afternoon will dissect buildings into their component parts and ingredients, for discussion of the materials we were, are, could be, and should be using.
Session: Words
09.10 Adrian Forty ‘When we talk about architecture’
09.35 Barnabas Calder ‘Tradition: in balance with nature?’
10.00 Peter Clegg
10.20 Coffee
11.00 Mina Hasman ‘The Multiplier Effect’
11.25 Michael Pawlyn ‘Words, Metaphors and World Views’
11.50 Q&A with Audience
12.30 Lunch
Session: Materials
13.30 Kiran Pereira ‘Sand: The Elephant in the Room’
13.55 Malvika Metha ‘The Lime Opportunity’
14.20 Alex Sparrow ‘Hempcrete: scaling a proven solution in biobased construction’
14.40 Coffee
15.30 Rowland Keable ‘Earth Building Renaissance’
15.55 Antiopi Koronaki ‘Woodcraft in the digital age’
16.15 Q&A and discussion and closing remarks
ViewDay 2 ‘Who For?’
UN-Habitat and World Bank figures predict that three billion people will need new housing and basic infrastructure by 2030. With millions of practising architects and many thousands of architecture students graduating annually, there should be no shortage of designs to fulfil this demand for built fabric. And yet, so much development does nothing to meet the needs of most of the world’s population, and too many practitioners are unable to find work that is on behalf of the vast majority of people.
So many of our most enduring building traditions were developed before architecture and engineering became expert professions. Rather than trying to conquer nature, these traditional methods welcomed the vagaries of climate, and the challenge of topography. With demand for building increasing and resources for building decreasing, this is, globally, a moment to revisit some of the design solutions that have kept us safe and dry for generations.
The morning session will focus on people and planet as the ultimate ‘for whom’ we build. The afternoon will offer a showcase of practical examples from around the world, connecting to the design competition of INTBAU’s Architecture Challenge.
Session: People & Planet
09.30 Session introduction (Parvinder Marwaha)
09.40 Yasmeen Lari
10.00 Marina Tabassum
10.20 Anupama Kundoo
10.35 Q&A
10.55 Screening of ‘Tying Knots’ video
11.05 Coffee break
11.35 Talk on the architecture of the RSA’s 9 John Adam Street
11.40 Irshad Ali Sodhar, Deputy Commissioner South Karachi on eco-urbanism in Karachi
12.00 INTBAU 2022 Research Scholar Ema Ziya, Gulhuvan joinery techniques in traditional Maldivian architecture
12:30 Lunch
Session: Case Studies
13.30 Caroline Stanford ‘The Landmark Trust: Rescue, resilience & enjoyment through adaptive re-use of historic buildings’
13.55 Catriona Forbes ‘The Nomadic School of Architecture – Sierra Leone’
14.20 Lettice Drake ‘PAM & OSID – Party as Methodology & On Site Intuitive Design’
14.40 Coffee
15.30 Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne ‘Circular Bioeconomy Alliance: Sustainable Timber for People and the Planet’
15.55 Marcel Vellinga ‘Vernacular Architecture of the World’
16.15 Q&A
16.50 Closing remarks
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