Seminar: Planetary Boundaries
To reduce our planetary impact, an innovative approach is needed in design and architecture. During the seminar we will learn about a number of research and development projects that, from different perspectives, reflect on the potential of materials and the built form. The seminars will mostly be held in English.
Events of recent years have manifested what science has been forecasting for a long time: Climate change has become an obvious, red-hot truth. The climate is changing, and this is affecting the planet. The impact of human activity on the planet’s ecosystem can now be clearly felt in the state of the global environment. Climate change is not an eventuality; it is already here.
For quite some time, the Royal Danish Academy has focused on exploring new ways to reduce carbon emissions in building projects, to refurbish and restore buildings rather than build new ones, and to create designs that last. For an evening moderated by sustainability specialist Johan Jönsson, you will get to listen to a number of representatives from The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen and several development and research projects focused on reducing its planetary impact.
Program
17.00–17.30
Guided tour of the exhibition.
17.30–17.40
The moderator of the evening Johan Jönsson welcomes us.
17.40–18.00
Introduction and background: The Planetary Limits of Architecture and Design / Stockholm Resilience Centre
18.00–14.40
Clay as a resilient building material – 3 projects from the exhibition:
Better Building Blocks / Frans Drewniak
The aesthetics of crushing: Design based on the transformation of ceramic construction waste / Nina Husted Erichsen, Jacob Sebastian Bang
Therma Testa / Flemming Tvede Hansen, Isak Worre Foged
Joint conversation together with Johan Jönsson.
18.40–19.00
Break
19.00–19.40
Bio based materials in architecture – 3 projects from the exhibition:
Straw as a building material – A radical tectonic perspective / Lykke Arnfred
Biogenic Architecture – Planetary Opportunities / Lykke Arnfred
Fungal Architecture / Phil Ayres
Joint conversation together with Johan Jönsson.
19.40–19.45
Evening round-up.