Shaping the City was first held in Venice in 2018, followed by a second edition in 2021. Take a look at the video below to get a glimpse of the forum and the engaging conversations.

Session 1 | Agenda 
Architecture for the People

8.30am – 9.00am (CST) / 3.30pm – 4.00pm (CET)
Registration + Coffee

9.00am – 9.15am (CST) / 4.00pm – 4.15pm (CET)
Welcoming Note & Opening Remarks by ECC Team

9.15am – 10.00am (CST) / 4.15pm – 5.00pm (CET)
Keynote Talk by David Brown (Artistic Director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial) in conversation with Javier Arpa Fernandez (Delft University of Technology / MVRDV)

10.00am – 12.40pm (CST) / 5.00pm – 7.40pm (CET)
Session 1 – Architecture for the People
Moderator: Edson Cabalfin (Tulane University – School of Architecture)

• Presentation 1 – Christian Hermansen (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
• Presentation 2 – Winifred Curran (DePaul University – College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences)
• Presentation 3 – Magda Mostafa (Progressive Architects / The American University in Cairo – Department of Architecture / MIXDesign)
• Presentation 4 – Allen Sayegh (INIVIA / Harvard University – Graduate School of Design – REAL Lab)
• Panel discussion led by Edson Cabalfin – Including Q/A from in-person and online audience

12.50pm – 1.00pm (CST) / 7.50pm – 8.00pm (CET)
Closing Note by ECC Team

1.00pm – 2.00pm (CST) / 8.00pm – 9.00pm (CET)
Lunch Break

Session 2 | Agenda 
Re-Imagining the City

2.00pm – 2.30pm (CST) / 9.00pm – 9.30pm (CET)
Registration + Coffee

2.30pm – 2.40pm (CST) / 9.30pm – 9.40pm (CET)
Introductory Remarks by ECC Team

2.40pm – 2.50pm (CST) / 9.40pm – 9.50pm (CET)
Presentation Got Umbrella by Petra Kempf (Washington University in St Louis – Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts)

2.50pm – 5.30pm (CST) / 9.50pm – 0.30am (CET)
Session 2 – Re-Imagining the City
Moderator: Robert Shibley (University at Buffalo – School of Architecture and Planning)

• Presentation 1 – Alfredo Henry Hidalgo Rasmussen and Roberto Iñiguez Flores (Tecnológico de Monterrey | ITESM · Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño)
• Presentation 2 – Don Weinreich (Ennead Architects)
• Presentation 3 – Ian and Terri Dreyer  (NANO Architecture Interiors)
• Presentation 4 – Martin Anzellini (ProBogotá)
• Panel discussion led by Robert Shibley – Including Q/A from in-person and online audience

5.30pm – 6.00pm (CST) / 0.30am – 1.00am (CET)
Closing Conversation between Javier Arpa Fernandez and moderators Edson Cabalfin & Robert Shibley

6.00pm (CST) / 1.00am (CET)
Closing Note by ECC Team

About Session 1 | Architecture for the People

This theme of Shaping the City is explored through the social lens of architects and urban planners within our contemporary world. It focuses on social issues in the city, urban inequity, emerging issues of the displacement of communities, new architectural values, and spatial identity. 

Architecture for the people explores how regeneration projects, social housing, and urban policies are reactivating the neglected parts of the urban fabric of the city and promoting dynamic and social transformations, where architecture and urban planning are seen as a catalyst for an inclusive city. 

The panel will tackle mainly inclusion, social, racial, and gender equity in the city and their intersectionality with space activation and gentrification in the urban space. By looking into public participation processes and community regeneration in different cities across the world, Architecture for the People crosses between the theme of the Chicago Architecture Biennale “The Available City” and the aspirations for shaping future cities in the future. 

About Session 2 | Re-Imagining the City

The transformation of our cities is a dynamic process, where the physical form and the respective citizens’ interaction are constantly changing with the planning, policies, urban design, and architecture at the given era of regeneration. Accumulating the heritage, physically and spiritually inside the city, plays a vital role in shaping the image of the city and the collective identity of the metropolis. 

This theme explores how the morphological dimension, engulfing both the architectural character and the urban environment, creates an image and an identity for the city. It also focuses on the sensory and experiential qualities in architecture and the distinctive qualities of the urban space, where daily life unfolds. 

The panel will tackle mainly visionary views of cities in a speculative and critical way while taking into consideration the issues of inclusion and equity at the urban scale. 

A dialogue between architects, academics, and policymakers will discuss the projected urban future in a visionary way and reflect on the respective relationship of the people and their physical space is re-imagined in the future. 

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