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Xavier De Kestelier

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IAAC Lecture Series – Xavier De Kestelier

Xavier De Kestelier is a global Head of Design and leader of Hassell‘s design technology and innovation team, which sets strategy and advises on the tools and knowledge we need to succeed. Both an architect and technologist, Xavier harnesses technology to create more powerful, future-focused design solutions. That means he’s responsible for overseeing Hassell’s work in computational design, building information modelling, visualisation and virtual reality worldwide.

Over the past decade he’s forged a reputation as an industry leader in the exploration and adoption of parametric design and digital fabrication. Prior to working at Hassell, Xavier spent 16 years at Foster + Partners, working as a Partner for the Specialist Modelling Group. Most recently, he was behind our concept for a ​‘home’ on Mars – part of NASA’s 3DPrinted Habitat Challenge. A TED talker and regular speaker at major design and tech events, Xavier is also a director of Smartgeometry, a non-profit, global educational network for computational and digital design specialists.

Additive Manufacturing in Extreme Environments, From Bidi Bidi to Valles Marineras

Additive Manufacturing, or 3D Printing, was pioneered over 30 years ago and has since become a commonplace tool in high-end manufacturing processes spanning from bicycles to rocket engines. Nevertheless, its application within the realm of architecture is still in its nascent stage. To this end, the Innovation team at Hassell studio has been undertaking multiple small projects with the aim of exploiting Additive Manufacturing for sustainable and innovative utilization. In order to gain an in-depth comprehension of 3D printing’s potential applications, projects have been conducted across various climates: from Swiss glaciers to East African refugee camps as well as at Vales Marineras on Mars.

IAAC Lecture Series – Xavier De Kestelier

Thursday, 23rd February, 2023 at 19.30h (CET)

Title: “Additive Manufacturing in Extreme Environments, From Bidi Bidi to Valles Marineras”

Location: In-house at IAAC Main hall, C/ Pujades 102 & Zoom

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Philip F. Yuan Lecture

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“Nonlocal Locality” lecture by Philip F. Yuan Tuestday 14th February at IAAC Lecture Series

Philip F. Yuan is a professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, Thomas Jefferson professor at University of Virginia (2019), the visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019), and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2021). He is also the co-founder of DigitalFUTURES Association, Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Intelligence journal, and council member of UIA Professional Practice Commission (PPC).
Yuan is a pioneer in architectural intelligence and robotic fabrication, making achievements in both academic research and architectural practice. He emphasizes the integration of technological innovation and architectural culture, building environment and ethics, constantly seeking human-machine collaboration in the era of post-humanism.

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Nonlocal Locality

Living in the era when the subject-object relationship of architectural design needs to be re-pondered and reassembled, we are establishing a global platform for international collaborations in order to promote discussion about a broad range of contemporary issues such as global ethics and technologies integrated with local culture within our ever evolving, highly technological culture. Facing global warming, geopolitical upheaval and the pandemic, while confronting the challenge of the mutual development of architecture and society, we need to redefine and rethink the relationship between globalization and locality to reflect the contradictions and the opportunities brought by the current trend of human-machine collaboration. Meanwhile, nonlocality describes the manner in which a hyperobject becomes more substantial than the local manifestations they produce.

IAAC Lecture Series – Philip F. Yuan

Date: Tuesday, 14th February, 2023 at 13.00h (CET)

Title: “Nonlocal Locality”

Location: Online (Zoom & Facebook)

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Andreina Seijas at IAAC

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Andreina Seijas is a Venezuelan researcher and international consultant. After completing her doctoral studies in night-time planning and governance at the Harvard School of Design, Andreina founded Night Tank, a firm specialized in this novel field. Previously, Andreina worked as a senior consultant for IdenCity in Barcelona; as consultant for the Housing and Urban Development Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington D.C.; as Policy Associate at the Council of the Americas in New York City; and as Information Manager for the municipality of Chacao in Caracas, Venezuela. Andreina has a Communications degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, an MSc in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics, a Master in Public Administration and Non-Profit management from New York University, and a Doctor of Design (DDes) degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Managing 24-Hour Cities: Time as a New Urban Frontier by Andreina Seijas

Time, like space, is a key asset in urban areas. However, urbanists often forget about the social and political implications of managing urban time. A public space, a square or a building has different uses throughout the 24-hour cycle, and a wide range of actors take part in the nocturnal ecosystem of cities: nightlife and entertainment venues, hospitals, transport and logistics, call centers and creative industries, just to name a few, are part of cities’ night-time economy. While vibrant nightscapes have become a mark for the cultural status and appeal of global cities, sensitivities to noise and other forms of nuisance become greater after dark. To handle this, more than 60 cities around the world have created specialized institutions such as “night mayors,” responsible for mediating among public and private interests and promoting safe and inclusive nocturnal environments. By presenting international projects and examples, this talk will introduce the concept of night-time governance and explain why the urban night is becoming a relevant field of study and practice within the planning and design disciplines.

IAAC Lecture Series – Andreina Seijas. Date: Thursday, 15th December, 2022 Time: 19.30h (CET)

Title: “Governing 24-Hour Cities: Time as a New Urban Frontier”

Location: In-house at IAAC Main hall, C/ Pujades 102 & Zoom

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Mette Bak-Andersen at IAAC Lecture Series

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“Sustainable Design – From Knowing About to Knowing How” lecture by Mette Bak-Andersen

Mette Bak-Andersen is a designer and researcher dedicated to changing the way we design things. She has a PhD in sustainable design and materials from the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture and Design and for more than 13 years she has been working with sustainability and material circularity in her design practice, in design education and in her research, both in Denmark and internationally. In 2013 she founded the Material Design Lab at Copenhagen School of Design & Technology, which she directed until 2018.

Mette has extensive experience with the design and production of furniture, products and interiors and has presented her research and designs to variety of audiences such as Berkeley University, Salone in Milan, Trapholt Museum of Design and Red Dot Museum in Essen. She has worked with a number of different companies as a design consultant supporting them in the transition to sustainable design and production. In 2021 she published the book Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design.

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Sustainable Design – From Knowing About to Knowing How

For too long humanity has been behaving as if the materials we could grow and extract from Earth were unlimited. This behaviour has affected how we have built our society and infrastructure, how we have processed raw materials, the setup of our manufacturing systems and not least, the way we design things.
For a period in time designers did not need to have much more knowledge about materials than anybody else. Because it did not matter how different materials were mixed and combined. We believed all resources to be abundant and did not need to recycle the materials from the products once they could no longer be used.

Many designers are by now fully aware of the urgency for change. They know about the criteria for sustainable design and want to take back control over their products, but frequently they are challenged by the fact that knowing about sustainable design is not the same as knowing how.
In-depth material knowledge, craft skills and the ability to manipulate and work with materials creatively may not seem directly related to sustainability, but they are essential attributes for a anyone who wish to design physical sustainable products. Even when the end goal is digital design and manufacturing.

This lecture is about why and how we must obtain this knowledge as designers and how the role of the designer inevitably will change in the process.

IAAC Lecture Series – Mette Bak-Andersen

Date: Tuesday, 22nd November, 2022 Time: 19.30h (CET)

Title: “Sustainable Design – From Knowing About to Knowing How”

Location: In-house at IAAC Main hall, C/ Pujades 102 & Zoom

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Felipe Vera Lecture at IAAC

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IAAC Lecture Series “Latin America in Transition” by Felipe Vera

Felipe Vera is a Chilean architect and urbanist working as Sector Specialist at the Housing and Urban Development Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). At IADB, he leads urban design and planning programs and regional technical cooperation, focusing on slum upgrading, resiliency, and ecological design. His knowledge work focuses on exploring the agency of temporality and the potential of design imagination for synthesizing more adaptable solutions made up of softer strategies, which are elastic, reversible, and capable to encompass a wide spectrum of unpredictable city pressures. In relation to this, Vera has written and lectured extensively on issues about urban design and planning, migration, and ecology in vulnerable contexts.

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He is the author of several books and publications aimed at understanding and designing strategies for building resilience in vulnerable cities. Some of these include “Informing the Informal: Strategies for Generating Information in Vulnerable Settlements” (2021), which covers topics such as data collection for designing urban policies in precarious areas; the Inmigrando series, comprised by the books Strengthening Destination Cities (2020), Building Plural Cities (2020), and Understanding Cities in Transition (2021) —which seek to understand migration flux, its impact, and potentials on destination cities.

Latin America in Transition: Imagining Infrastructures for Climatic Migration

The world is facing a moment of growing climate and migratory uncertainty. The accelerated intensity of natural and humanitarian disasters is giving rise to new and more complex forms of vulnerability. Migration has acquired an unprecedented dimension, while the infrastructure that will respond to climate displacements remains unanswered. While current estimates account for 250 million international migrants, predictions indicate that by 2050 this number will increase to 350 million, of which 60% will have been displaced due to environmental factors. Rising sea levels, changes in rainfall distribution patterns and in ocean chemistry will strongly affect coastal cities, where 77% of the at- risk global population resides. The climate crises also accentuate inequalities, as the most vulnerable groups are the more exposed to the effects of environmental hazards. In the near future, the landscape of informality will be a direct reflection of the effects of climate change and its intensified migration.

IAAC Lecture Series – Felipe Vera

Date: Tuesday, 8th November, 2022
Time: 19.30h (CET)

Title: “Latin America in Transition: Imagining Infrastructures for Climatic Migration”

Location: In-house at IAAC Main hall, C/ Pujades 102 & Zoom

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Florencia Rodriguez at IAAC

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“Why Bother? A Critical/Editorial Manifesto in the Age of Dispersion” by Florencia Rodriguez at IAAC Lecture Series

Florencia Rodriguez (January 29, 1975) is an Argentinian architect and cultural producer currently based in Brookline, MA.

Having practiced mainly as an editor, writer, and curator, she has built a unique career path driven by a strong entrepreneurial spirit that led her to create and run cultural initiatives related to architecture and design, both in Argentina and the US.

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In 2010, Rodriguez founded PLOT, an ongoing design publication that she continued to direct until 2017. Under her stewardship, it became one of the leading publications in Latin America.

Since early 2017 she embarked on a new endeavor and created Lots of architecture -publishers, a US-based publishing company focused on design, architecture and urban culture. Its most significant project has been the periodical publication -NESS. From that platform, she has edited books and organized events and activities committed to the dissemination of new narratives, the exploration of alternative forms of design criticism, and discussions about the role of design.

In 2015 she created Monte where she curated and promoted a very active and independent public program. Because of her persistent cultural engagement, she was also invited to act as a consultant for the City of Buenos Aires.

She has been teaching for more than two decades. Currently, she is a lecturer in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was granted the Loeb Fellowship between 2013 and 2014.

Rodriguez has lectured, curated exhibitions, acted as juror, and organized international symposia in different institutions, principally in the Americas. She has received awards for her editorial work and published several articles in books and specialized media such as Domus, Oris, summa +, Arquine, a+u, or Uncube. She has recently co-edited America, the 48th issue of the Harvard Design Magazine, together with Mark Lee.

She is launching 3 new books in 2022. The first one, MCHAP 2 Territory & Expeditions, is being printed this month.

IAAC Lecture Series – Florencia Rodriguez “Why Bother? A Critical/Editorial Manifesto in the Age of Dispersion”

Date: May 31st , 2022 at 19.30h (CEST)

Location: Online Zoom Event

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Nader Tehrani at IAAC Lecture Series

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The Woodpecker’s Delight Lecture by Nader Tehrani at IAAC Lecture Series.

Nader Tehrani

For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which he was also elected as a Member in 2021, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in The United States.

Nader Tehrani is the Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union in New York. He was previously a professor of architecture at MIT, where he served as the Head of the Department from 2010-2014. He is also Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry.

Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards, a finalist for the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize, and a nominee for the 2017 Marcus Prize for Architecture. Other honors include: a 2014 Holcim Foundation Sustainability Award, the 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the 2007 United States Artists Award, USA Target Fellows AD award, and two Harleston Parker Medals.  Over the past seven years, NADAAA has consistently ranked as a top design firm in Architect Magazine’s Top 50 U.S. Firms List, ranking as First three of those years.

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Lecture Abstract:

In a world increasingly challenged by global warming, it is clear that the construction industry is a major contributor to unsustainable carbon emissions. The identification of naturally renewable resources is a critical factor in determining a sustainable supply chain for the industry, and yet that cannot guarantee the role of architecture in the equation. This lecture will focus on the role of wood, adopted in its hybrid formats to contribute to the cultural and ecological equation in balance.

IAAC Lecture Series – Nader Tehrani

Date: May 9th, 2022 at 18.00h CET (Barcelona Time) , 12.00h EST (Boston Time)

Title: The Woodpecker’s Delight

Event: Master in Mass Timber Design (MMTD) Scholarship

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Lindsay Bremner at IAAC Lecture Series

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Lindsay Bremner: Monsoon as Method

This lecture by Lindsay Bremner is part of the preparation for the global online competition “Design for Biocities.” This is the 9th edition of the Advanced Architecture Contest, this time focused on rethinking our human habitats following the rules of natural systems, promoting the transition from Cities to Biocities.

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Lindsay Bremner

Dr. Lindsay Bremner is a research architect and educator at the University of Westminster in London where she is Director of Research in the School of Architecture and Cities. She recently (2016-2021) held European Research Council grant no. 679873 for Monsoon Assemblages, a project exploring three Bay of Bengal cities – Chennai, Dhaka and Yangon, as monsoonal assemblages are being disrupted and transformed by globalisation and climate change. She holds a B.Arch from the University of Cape Town and an M.Arch and DSc.Arch from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Lecture Abstract:

This presentation arises out of the work of Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council from 2016-2021. The presentation will think through what it means to reframe spatial research around the monsoon, a weather system that envelopes the globe, and to approach cities as monsoon assemblages or weather worlds. It will thus challenge ways of thinking of cities and climate or society and nature as separate entities stacked up against one another, and instead explore the multiple ways they are entangled and co produced.

IAAC Lecture Series – Lindsay Bremner: Monsoon as Method

Thursday, April 7th  18:00 CEST

Event: “Design for Biocities” 9th Advanced Architecture Contest

Location: Online Zoom

Free registration here

Winy Maas at IAAC Lectures

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Every(body) is Urbanism Lecture by Winy Maas

The next lecturer at IAAC is Winy Maas with “Every(body) is urbanism”, a talk about the intersection of nature, urbanism, architecture and the human body. A series of pioneer ideas for variety of ‘ecosystems’ will be explored, including calculations and visualizations of a versatile mix of fashion, heritage, urbanism and biodiversity.

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About Winy Maas

The ‘M’ of MVRDV, Founding Partner and Principal Architect Winy Maas Ir. Ing (Schijndel, NL – 1959), has received international acclaim for his broad range of urban planning and building projects, across all typologies and scales. These are often self-generated, innovative, experimental, and theoretical. Maas challenges colleagues, clients, as well as students and collaborators at TU Delft’s The Why Factory – an internationally engaged think tank Maas established in 2008 – to challenge the boundaries of established standards to produce solutions that reimagine how we live, work, and play. Aside from his dedicated leadership role at MVRDV and professorship at TU Delft and elsewhere, Maas is widely published, actively engaged in the advancement of the design profession, and sits on numerous boards and juries, including the Spatial Quality Boards of Rotterdam, Eindhoven, and Barcelona.

“I advocate denser, greener, more attractive and livable cities, with an approach to design that centres around user-defined, innovative, and sustainable ideas for the built environment, regardless of typology or scale.” – Winy Maas.

In the past Maas has been a visiting professor and has held various teaching positions at notable institutes including the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, Columbia University in New York, the Strelka Institute in Moscow, Hong Kong University, and the Rotterdam Building Academy.

With The Why Factory he has published more than thirteen books on The Future City, including Green Dream (2010), Copy Paste (2017), and Porocity (2018). He has written and published several books on the theories behind MVRDV, like Farmax: Excursions on Density (1997) together with co-founder Jacob van Rijs; KM3: Excursions on Capacities (2005), Five Minutes City (2003), and Skycar City (2007).

Date: Monday, February 14th Time: 19:30 CET

Title: Every(body) is Urbanism

Location: In-house at IAAC Main hall & Zoom

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Stefano Boeri, IAAC Lecture Series

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IAAC Lecture Series: Green Obsession by Stefano Boeri

This lecture by acclaimed Italian architect Stefano Boeri is the launching event for the global online competition “Design for Biocities.” This is the 9th edition of the Advanced Architecture Contest, this time focused on rethinking our human habitats following the rules of natural systems, promoting the transition from Cities to Biocities.

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Lecture Abstract:

Today the effects of the Anthropocene age are ever more visible, changing our environment and affecting every species that lives within it. Green Obsession offers a path to be taken, a hard but still necessary paradigm shift – even for architecture and urbanism – that aims to give a voice to this much needed ecological transition. A book with the same title, recently published by Actar, aims to unveil the processes and the complexity involved in the search for a new kind of urbanism, while raising questions and opening old wounds related to the relationship between the human species and Nature and finally putting these fragments together to create a portrait of our era. We need to conceive cities as new green catalysts. Now more than ever, it is essential to act together as separate individuals and professionals, joining the cause as members of the global community with a shared environmental strategy. We all have to open the era of a new alliance between Nature and City.

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Liuzhou Forest City by Stefano Boeri Architetti

About Stefano Boeri

Stefano Boeri is an architect and urban planner and Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano. In Shanghai he is Director of the Future City Lab at Tongji University: a post-doctoral research program which explores the future of contemporary metropolis under the perspectives of biodiversity and urban forestry. Boeri’s practice ranges from the design of architecture and urban visions to product design, with a constant focus on the geopolitical and environmental implications of urban phenomena. One of his most highly cited projects is the Bosco Verticale in Milan.

IAAC Lecture Series – Stefano Boeri

Date: Tusday January 11th, 2022
Time: 19:30 CET

Title: Green Obsession
Event: Launching “Design for Biocities” 9th Advanced Architecture Contest

Location: Online Zoom/Facebook Live

The lecture is now fully booked. But you can follow the lecture live via Zoom or on IAAC’s Facebook. 

Cobus Bothma at IAAC Lecture Series

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IAAC Lecture Series – Virtualising Architecture – Global collaborative design at KPF

30th November at iaac lecture series Cobus Bothma with the lecture “Virtualising  Architecture”, with the democratisation of technology and advanced functions in many industries, computational tasks in architectural design have remained in the hands of a few super users until recent years. The KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox) Advanced Technology Group is developing intuitive design processes for distributed location-independent design, with enhanced levels of immersion, enabling more designers to perform higher-level functions required by the modern design process. This presentation will show how we develop and adopt remote geometry, and visual compute tools and expand our global infrastructure to continue delivering award-winning architectural designs.

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About Cobus Bothma

With a background in industrial design, Cobus brings over 30 years’ experience in architectural and product design from across multiple industries. As a director at KPF, Cobus is involved in many aspects of advanced design, visualisation, complex geometry and fabrication. Through KPF Applied Research, he applies computational, cognitive, and visual design workflows to enhance the design, review and fabrication processes internally and for their clients.

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Cobus has led KPF’s partnerships with some of the world’s leading technology companies. His work with these companies includes developing, testing and implementing new hardware, applications and workflows. This work continues to grow KPF’s design capabilities globally, to improve the buildings and cities we design and enhance the lives of the people who use them. It is also shaping the direction of the broader development of the AEC industry. A recognised authority in the field, Cobus is a frequent speaker at academic institutions and leading cross-industry technology events on advanced geometry and visual computation.

Lecturer: Cobus Bothma

Date: Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 9:30 CET

Location: IAAC – Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona

Orin Hardy at IAAC Lecture Series

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IAAC Lecture Series – Orin Hardy ”Building a Bamboo University”

Join us as Orin Hardy, Co-founder of Bamboo U, presents how extraordinary bamboo structures came to be in Bali, and what they can teach us about design and architecture.

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Learn what bamboo has to teach us about design and construction and why it can help achieve a more regenerative world. This giant grass, that was once considered to be a poor man’s timber is now considered by many as the sustainable timber of the future. Bamboo is the poster child of eco-architecture. It is fast growing, strong, abundant, and beautiful. But how practical is it to use in the modern world? What are the opportunities and limitations of this material? This lecture will reflect on the lessons learned from 10+ years of building innovative structures out of bamboo, and how it led to the development of Bamboo U. A hands-on learning campus for bamboo education, building and design. Bamboo U shares its process and knowledge with students and professionals from around the world to inspire designers to create a world that is sustainable, abundant and beautiful.

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Orin Hardy is the co-founder of Bamboo U and the Kul Kul Farm, two sustainability education enterprises in Bali. He dedicates his time to creating spaces and opening up new possibilities for people to live lives closer to nature and themselves. Combining his international expertise with local knowledge, Hardy facilitates and teaches courses related to permaculture design, gardening and bamboo construction.

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Along with his team, Hardy has welcomed hundreds of people from all over the world to participate in these programs. Raised in a Balinese village surrounded by rivers and jungle, he then moved to North America where he witnessed this disconnect between humans and nature in the modern world. He now spends his time devoted to reconnect people with nature. His most recent endeavours have been to tackle the challenge of bringing Bamboo U online in order to adapt to the realities of a world grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lecturer: Orin Hardy

Date: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 19:30 CET

Location: IAAC – Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona

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Anupama Kundoo at IAAC Lecture Series

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Slow Architecture with Anupama Kundoo

Anupama Kundoo discusses the potential of architecture to address complex intersections of urbanization, people, technologies, resources, and the environment within the context of growing affordability issues. Her practice, the result of her quest for knowledge to build appropriately, considers projects as opportunities to build knowledge. Architecture is the result of building processes, and time needs to be invested despite the sense of urgency triggered by rapid urbanization.

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About the lecturer

Anupama Kundoo graduated from University of Mumbai in 1989 and received her PhD degree from the TU Berlin in 2008. Her research-oriented practice has generated people centric architecture based on spatial and material research for low environmental impact while being socio-economically beneficial. Her body of works is currently exhibited as a solo show ‘Taking Time’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark till 5. April 2021.

She has taught Architecture and Urban Management at various international universities strengthening her expertise in rapid urbanization and climate change related development issues, and was the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University in Spring 2020. She is currently Professor at Potsdam School of Architecture, Germany.

This lecture will be an online event, hosted with Zoom. 

IAAC Lecture Series – Slow Architecture

Lecturer: Anupama Kundoo 

Date: Thursday, February 18th, 19:30 (CET)

Location: Online – Zoom 

To attend the event, please register here

Nicolas Bernier Lecture

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“Sculpted with Light and Sound” Lecture by Nicolas Bernier at IAAC

Nicolas Bernier creates audiovisual performances and installations aiming to carve a dialogue between sound and tangible matter. Shaped by his work within the fields of cinema, literature, dance and theatre companies, his own language blend together elements of music, photography, design, science, video art, architecture, light design and scenography. In the midst of this eclecticism, his artistic concerns remain constant: the balance between the cerebral and the sensual, and between organic sources and digital processing.

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Awardee of the prestigious Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2013 (Austria), his work widely recognize, presented all over the world: SONAR (Spain), Mutek (Canada), Elektra (Canada), ZKM (Germany), Transmediale (Germany) and LABoral (Spain) to name a few. His sound compositions are widely published on electronic music labels: 901 Editions (Italy), LINE (US), leerraum (Switzerland), Entr’acte (UK) and empreintes DIGITALes (Québec).

He holds a PhD in sonic arts from the University of Huddersfield (UK). He is a member of Perte de signal, CIRMMT and Hexagram media arts research and development centres based in Montreal. He is teaching in the Digital Music program of the Université de Montréal.

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20

3rd of March 2020 @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Nicolas Bernier In collaboration with MUTEK

Sculpted with Light and Sound

Free and Open to the Public

Nina Gualinga Lecture

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Indigenous People of the Amazon: The Guardians of Our Future Lecture by Nina Gualinga at IAAC

Nina Gualinga is of Swedish and indigenous roots of the Ecuadorian Amazon, where she was born and raised in her mother’s community of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku.  Nina started advocating for  indigenous and territorial rights at the at a early age, after an oil companies violently entered her peoples’ lands with military troops provided by the Ecuadorian government. The people of Sarayaku successfully forced out the oil company and militars and won a historic case against the government  in the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, setting an important precedent for indigenous rights across Latin America.

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Throughout her life Nina has been actively involved in national and global advocacy efforts in defense of the Amazon rainforest, indigenous rights and the world climate. She is a spokesperson for the Mujeres Amazonicas, a movement that unites indigenous women in the Ecuadorian Amazon. She is also board member of Amazon Watch in Sweden, where she studies Human Rights at the University of Lund.

Nina uses her story and voice to raise awareness of the challenges that Indigenous People face across the world in their struggles to protect their home against extractive industries and for all life on Earth.

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20

25th of February 2020
Nina Gualinga
Activist for indigenous and territorial rights

Indigenous People of the Amazon: The Guardians of Our Future

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

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