UPCOMING EVENTS
A public lecture by Omar Nagati and Omar Khaled of CLUSTER — Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research. In absence of state provisions, most cities in the Global South are largely developed through informal urban processes. Professional architects and urban planners are risking becoming irrelevant. Based in Cairo, CLUSTER has been developing over the past decade frameworks to engage informality on its own terms, through critical mapping and action research, while proposing creative design interventions. Considered as grounded urban practices, these projects attempt to mediate academic training and institutional codes, on the one hand, and local practices and practical knowledge, on the other.
Thursday 19 September 17:00 – 18:30 (Doors open at 16:30). Free entrance, but registration is required. Register here
A public lecture by Omar Nagati and Omar Khaled of CLUSTER — Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research. In absence of state provisions, most cities in the Global South are largely developed through informal urban processes. Professional architects and urban planners are risking becoming irrelevant. Based in Cairo, CLUSTER has been developing over the past decade frameworks to engage informality on its own terms, through critical mapping and action research, while proposing creative design interventions. Considered as grounded urban practices, these projects attempt to mediate academic training and institutional codes, on the one hand, and local practices and practical knowledge, on the other.
Thursday 19 September 17:00 – 18:30 (Doors open at 16:30). Free entrance, but registration is required. Register here
For the next School’s Out! on Friday 20 September, we invited internationally renowned architect Florian Idenburg, co-founder of SO – IL. The architecture office was founded in 2008 in New-York together with Jing Liu. His lecture "Cancel the Corridor, amongst others" will present recent work and in-process work of SO – IL.
A day long bus trip to the most spectacular works of the controversial Dutch architect Carel Weeber, guided by Wouter Vanstiphout - the author of ‘Autonoom: 100% Carel Weeber’. Friday 20 September 2024, 10:00 - 17:30. Ticket available for 45 Euro.
The After Summer School by Nieuwe Instituut presents a Rotterdam-based Curriculum for Change. A wide variety of knowledge producers will teach their methods on how to change the city by looking, listening, writing, archiving, collaborating, activating, researching, designing, and walking differently.
As part of this programme, Mike Emmerik and Wouter Vanstiphout of the Independent School, will give a public talk about the School's activities and methods, zooming in on the School’s central themes: Climate Change, Superdiversity and the Right to the City. These are issues that the school sees as fundamental to the future development of Rotterdam as a port city in one of the world’s largest and most industrialised delta areas, where more than 170 nationalities live together.
A public lecture by Charmaine Chua in collaboration with the DIGIPORTS research team at Erasmus University.
Since its founding in 1994, Amazon.com has expanded into one the largest tech and retail companies in the world. In the process, it has entirely remade global capitalism, reaching all the way from factory spaces in China to the doorstep of our homes, transforming urban peripheries into a dense network of distribution centers, and creating a new logistics working class. How did Amazon reach this position of domination in the global economy, and what are Amazon workers doing to fight against it?
Tuesday 1 October, 19:00 - 20:30 (Doors open at 18:30). Free entrance, but registration is required. Register here
Climate change increasingly is a reason for displacement and migration. The United Nations International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has cited estimates of as many as 25 million to 1 billion climate migrants in the next 30 years, while other projections point to 1.4 billion by 2060. It is therefore important to investigate more just alternatives for the way we are dealing with climate change, migration and the organisation of space today. This lecture series examines the impact of climate change on the liveability of our world and the potentialities of space. Where is climate-induced displacement and migration already happening today? Which areas will be most affected by global warming? Where can people move to and how can new places for living be built?
Over the next century we will face several climate crises that might force millions of people to leave their homes. On the first evening we will discuss the impact of climate change on the world. The starting point of the lecture series is the research and design project ‘Humanity on the Move’ in which Lena Knappers and Bram van Ooijen investigate how we can address this major issue.
Tuesday 08 October, 19:00 - 21:00 (doors open and dinner served at 18:00). Tickets for this separate event costs 17,50 euro and include a simple dinner. An entrance package for all three evenings is available for 45 euro. Get them here
The urbanisation of station areas and public transportation hubs is a major focus in urban planning today, driven by the goals of proximity and sustainable mobility. These areas, often located in already developed districts, are ideal for mixed-use development and frequently require improvements to their environmental quality.
Recently, the architecture and urban design firm De Zwarte Hond published a bookazine titled "The Future is Near – Why Station Areas Are the Ideal Locations for Urbanisation." The publication delves into why and how proximity can be achieved in station quarters. Building on the insights from this bookazine, this event will further explore the potential for densifying station areas, drawing on examples from the Netherlands and Paris, where the concepts of the 15-minute city and transport-oriented development are key principles guiding the urbanisation of the Greater Paris region. Tickets available for 5 euro here.
For this School’s Out! on Friday 25 October, we invited Pedro Gadanho, architect, author and independent curator based in Lisbon.
He will talk about his book "Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency" offering an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture. From historical analyses of ecocide or the environmental avant-gardes, to topics such as decarbonization, degrowth, the Great Transition and the aspirations of Green New Deals, this book features ten essays around today’s climate change debates, bringing them home to architectural thinking.
Over the next century we will face several climate crises that might force millions of people to leave their homes. The second in a series of three evenings about geopolitics, climate migration and the potentialities of space. During the evening we examine the intersections between climate justice and migration.
Tuesday 05 November, 19:00 - 21:00 (doors open and dinner served at 18:00) Tickets for this separate event costs 17,50 euro and include a simple dinner. An entrance package for all three evenings is available for 45 euro. Get them here
Over the next century we will face several climate crises that might force millions of people to leave their homes. The third in a series of three evenings about geopolitics, climate migration and the potentialities of space. During the evening we examine the intersections between climate justice and migration.
Tuesday 03 December, 19:00 - 21:00 (doors open and dinner served at 18:00) Tickets for this separate event costs 17,50 euro and include a simple dinner. An entrance package for all three evenings is available for 45 euro. Get them here