EMERGING URBANISMS,

EMERGING PRACTICES

The idea behind this session was to look at emerging urban issues and the way they are being dealt with by younger architectural offices. The session was divided in four forums which dealt respectively with four themes:

FORUM 1: RE-TERITORIES

OFFICES:
JDS JULIEN DE SMEDT [DENMARK]
KLAR ARCHITECTS [DENMARK]
NL ARCHITECTS [NETHERLANDS]

MODERATOR:
PETER HEMMERSAM [ARCHITECT, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AHO]

Re-territories address the changing condition of urban
spaces in the contemporary city and the efforts towards
re-programming urban territories and re-conceptualizing
public spaces. How can architects operate in the context of
rapidly changing and unstable territorial conditions? What
programming and conceptual devices are articulated to deal
with such conditions?

FORUM 2: CO-EVOLUTION

OFFICES:
CEBRA [DENMARK]
COBE [DENMARK]
EFFEKT [DENMARK]
TRANSFORM [DENMARK]
Professor LIANG WEI [CHINA]

MODERATOR:
HENRIK VALEUR [ARCHITECT UID]

Co-evolution is the title for the prize-winning work of young
Danish architecture offices in collaboration with Chinese
universities for the 2006 Venice Biennale. The session will
focus on a discussion of the proposals by the four offices
dealing with the issue of sustainable development in rapidly
urbanizing areas in China.

FORUM 3: REGIONAL URBANISM

OFFICES:
BLANK SPACE [DENMARK]
MAXWAN [NETHERLANDS]
NORD [DENMARK]
UID [SWEDEN, CHINA]

MODERATOR:
GUSTAVO RIBEIRO [ASSISTANT PROFESSOR , THE ROYAL DANISH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE]

Regional Urbanism looks at the challenges of conceiving
architecture and urbanism on a regional scale, following
an articulation of global economic circuits at city-regional
levels. It deals with questions such as how city regions are
engaged through particular instances of programming and
design. Territorial scale and rescaling processes present a
number of challenges for conceptualizing and articulating
regional spaces through architectural/urban programmes.

FORUM 4: NEGOTIATIONS

OFFICES:
BIG [DENMARK]
MUTOPIA [DENMARK]
UCX ARCHITECTS [NETHERLANDS]

MODERATOR:
SARA NISSEN [CITY OF COPENHAGEN]

This session, as the name suggests, deals with Negotiations
in architecture and urbanism and the processes of moving
from design to implementation. Negotiation is conceived in
a broad way, as a set of design considerations which take
into account changing programmes and complex networks
of actors.