After the success of the two Venetian editions of Shaping the City, the European Cultural Centre will move the forum to a new context: Chicago. The first edition of the forum in Chicago is scheduled to take place on the 10th of December 2021 at the Chicago Cultural Center and online on the ECC Italy YouTube Channel.
What is Shaping the City?
Shaping the City: A Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities is a forum organized by the European Cultural Centre in context of the ECC Venice Architecture Biennial 2021 titled Time, Space, Existence.
Following the success of the first edition of the Shaping the City in Venice in 2018, the Second Edition is scheduled to take place on 15 and 16 of October 2021 in the iconic Palazzo Michiel in Venice, Italy.
Shaping the City tackles contemporary urbanization and key issues in the city, presented and debated through the perspectives of a group of academics, urban planners and designers, architects, policy makers, and scholars.
The themes
Through diverse presentations and panel discussions, the forum confronts the fundamental topics shaping the cities in the world. The conversations are structured in a way to portray an array of international perspectives about urbanism and architecture. The dialogues and exchanges are tailored around four main subthemes:
- Architecture for the People
- Re-imagining the City
- Architecture Technology and Construction
- Climate Change adaptation and Resilient Cities.
Why Venice…
The evolving discussions over two days recognize the significant role urban planning and design plays in molding the interaction of people with their cities and their wellbeing. The forum sets forward new thoughts around the rights to the city, through a spatial, pragmatic, yet inclusive and sustainable approach. Shaping the City 2021 looks to tackle these themes in dialogue with Venice: The historic city with its lagoon presents an emblematic lieu to experience the rising global issues of climate change, resiliency, urban space and people’s movements.
Friday 15 October Agenda
9.30am – 10.00am
Registration + Coffee
10.00am – 10.10am
Welcoming Note & Introduction by ECC Team
10.10am – 10.50am
Keynote Talk by Walter Mariotti (Domus Editorial Director)
10.50am – 12.50pm
Session 1 – Re-Imagining the City
Moderator: Allen Sayegh (Harvard University – Real Lab)
- Presentation 1 – Stefano Andreani (REAL Lab – Harvard University)
- Presentation 2 – Apostolos Kyriazis and Nadia Mounajjed (Abu Dhabi University)
- Presentation 3 – Ulrich Gehmann (Ideal Spaces x National Pavilion of Italy Venice 2021)
- Presentation 4 – Pia Fricker (Aalto University)
- Presentation 5 – Divina Abou Jaoude (Order of Architects and Engineers)
- Panel discussion led by Allen Sayegh – Including questions and wrap up
- Session 1 Conclusion
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Lunch Break
2.00pm – 2.30pm
Registration + Coffee
2.30pm – 2.40pm
Welcome note – ECC Team
2.40pm – 5.30pm
Session 2 – Climate Change and Resilient Cities
Moderator: Francesco Musco (Università IUAV di Venezia)
- Presentation 1 – Terri Dreyer + Ian Dreyer (NANO – New Orleans)
- Presentation 2 – Kristina Knauf (MVRDV)
- Presentation 3 – Belen Desmaison (University College London UCL Bartlett + Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru)
- Presentation 4 – Ilaria Giuliani (Deputy Chief Resilience Officer, Milan Municipality)
- Presentation 5 – Rick Schneider (Washington DC + IStudio + Virginia Tech)
- Panel discussion with Francesco Musco – Including questions and wrap up
- Session 2 Conclusion
5.30pm – 5.40pm
Closing Note by ECC Team
6.00pm
Aperitivo at Palazzo Mora
Saturday 16 October Agenda
9.30am – 10.00am
Registration + Coffee
10.00am – 10.10am
Welcome note – ECC Team
10:10am – 10:20
Stephen Lamb (nonCrete) Video
10.20am – 12.50pm
Session 3 – Building through Technology
(Materials for Future Cities)
Moderator: Mariana Popescu (TU Delft)
- Presentation 1 – Marirena Kladeftira (ETH Zurich Digital Building Technologies)
- Presentation 2 – Thomas Schroepfer (Future Cities Lab – Singapore University of Technology and Design)
- Presentation 3 – David Andreen & Ana Goidea (Lund University)
- Presentation 4 –Fabian Luttropp (TU Darmstadt)
- Panel discussion with Marian Popescu – Including questions and wrap up
- Session 3 Conclusion
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Lunch Break
2.00pm – 2.30pm
Registration + Coffee
2.30pm – 2.40pm
Welcome note – ECC Team + Announcement of Shaping the City Chicago
2.40pm – 5.30pm
Session 4 – Architecture for the People
Moderator: Petra Kempf (Washington University at St Louis)
- Presentation 1 – Håvard Breivik-Khan (Oslo School of Architecture – In-Transit Studio)
- Presentation 2 – Javier Arpa Fernandez (The Why Factory + TU Delft)
- Presentation 3 – Philippines Pavilion (curators Alexander Eriksson Furunes and Sudarshan Khadka)
- Presentation 4 – Daniel Blum (Itten+Brechbühl AG, Basel, Switzerland)
- Panel discussion with Petra Kempf – Including questions and wrap up
- Conclusion and Wrap up (ECC Team)
5.30pm – 5.50pm
Closing Speech by Javier Arpa Fernandez
5.50pm – 6.00pm
Thank you + Closing Note by ECC Team
6.00pm
Aperitivo at Palazzo Mora
Speakers
Pia Fricker
Prof. Dr., Vice Head of Department of Architecture
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Wael Al Awar
Principal Architect / Curator
waiwai / National Pavilion of the UAE
Ana Goidea
PhD Student / Architect
Lund University, bioDigital Matter research group
Francesco Musco
Professor and Head of Planning and Climate Change Lab
Università IUAV di Venezia
Stefano Andreani
Lecturer in Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design – REAL Lab
Håvard Breivik-Khan
Architect
The In Transit Studio at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)
Divina Abou Jaoude
Architect – Assistant Professor – Head of the architect branch
The Order of Engineers and Architects OEABeirut – Lebanese University
Javier Arpa Fernández
Research and Education Coordinator
The Why Factory (TU Delft) / The Why Factory Foundation
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