In the spring of 2022, the Flanders Architecture Institute will focus on the theme of care. In anticipation of this theme and on the occasion of the London Festival of Architecture the Austrian Cultural Forum London hosted a panel discussion together with the Delegation of Flanders (Embassy of Belgium) and the Flanders Architecture Institute about the very topical role of architecture and urbanism to address and solve today's environmental and social issues.
Presenting a panel of experts from Austria, Flanders and the UK the event looks at the opportunities, new concepts and the relationships between economy, ecology and work.
The director of the Architekturzentrum Vienna, Angelika Fitz and curator Elke Krasny give an insight into their exhibition 'Critical Care', which demonstrated how architecture and urbanism can contribute to repairing the future and keeping the planet and its inhabitants alive. They are joined by Sofie De Caigny (Director of the Flanders Architecture Institute), Hülya Ertas (Architect and Exhibitions & Publications Coordinator at the Flanders Architecture Institute), Kim Trogal (lecturer at the Canterbury School of Architecture, University of the Creative Arts) and Liza Fior from the London based collective muf architecture/art. The collective is one of 21 international practices featured in the exhibition.
The panel discussion was moderated by the award-winning environment journalist Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent for The Guardian.
Below you can (re)watch the session of 8 June:
In 2022 the Flanders Architecture Insitute presents two exhibitions that centre around ‘care’. The exhibition Critical Care: Architecture for a Broken Planet is an appeal for greater thoughtfulness and collaboration in architecture. After Vienna and Berlin, it will travel to De Singel in 2022. A second exhibition links the international case studies from Critical Care to projects from Flanders and Brussels. In both presentations, mutual dependency, maintenance and post-humanism serve as the anchor points from which to further explore care in architecture.
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