Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability (RAPS) Eindhoven 2022 Conference

‘Radical Entanglements’ acknowledges architecture and architectural practice as fundamentally entangled with the world, affective and affected. We are entangled, with each other, with our environments, architectures, other species, infrastructures, technologies, politics and more, in ways that are increasingly threatening our own conditions of existence. Despite this significance, these entanglements are not understood or explored in-depth as yet. The necessity for systemic change appears to be obvious, but how to enact transformations that are sufficiently radical is still unclear.

This conference explores diverse forms of practices, processes and modes across and within architecture through its heterogenous entanglements. At its core sustainability is about entanglements: of different actors, different entities, different scales, different timeframes, as well as the long-term affects of actions that result from them. We aim to draw out how these entanglements frame specific problems, exchange impacts and create potential solutions.

We seek to explore practices, processes and modes of operation through entangled relationships geared towards re-thinking architectural design and research practice for sustainability with the aim to advocate innovative approaches and transformational change.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kiel Moe, architect and builder

Kiel Moe, FAIA, FAAR works part-time as an architect. In recognition of his design and research endeavors related to the energetic and material basis of building, he was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Helsinki; the Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome, the Architecture League of New York Prize, and the American Institute of Architects National Young Architect Award. He has published several books including Unless: The Construction Ecology of Seagram Building; Empire, State & Building; Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial; Insulating Modernism; and Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy.

Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou / Atelier D’architecture Autogérée (AAA):

Doina Petrescu is Professor of Architecture and Design Activism at the University of Sheffield and Jubilee Professor 2022 at the University of Chalmers. Her research focuses on issues of co-design and civic participation, gendered practices, political ecology, co-production and resilience in relation with architectural and urban design. She has conducted a number of research projects and is author of numerous publications including Architecture and Resilience (2018), Learn to Act (2017) The Social (Re)Production of Architecture (2016), Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures (2009), Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space (2007), Architecture and Participation (2005).

Constantin Petcou is an architect and semiotician. Since 1996 he has taught in various schools and universities including ENSA Malaquais and the University of Paris 8, Harvard and MIT Massachusetts, etc. He is co-founder with Doina Petrescu of the atelier d’architecture autogérée (AAA) and has won several prizes in France, USA, Romania, Belgium and Japan. He has coordinated several research projects research projects and, together with AAA, initiated the Rhyzom network (www.rhyzom.eu ) and the R- Urban strategy ( www.r-urban.net ). He has contributed to numerous publications and co-edited Urban/ACT: a manual for alternative practice (2007) and Trans-Local-Act:Cultural Practices Within and Across (2010).

Atelier d’architecture autogérée (AAA) is a professional organization, which conducts actions and research on participatory urbanism and architecture, involving local residents in creating and sustaining commons in their neighbourhood, engaging in social and ecological practices and initiating resilient networks.

RAPS Eindhoven 2022 Conference: Radical Entanglements

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