Associate Professor Dr. Sina Mostafavi and Assistant Professor Dr. Asma Mehan presented in a panel at the closing event of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.
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Associate Professor Dr. Sina Mostafavi and Assistant Professor Dr. Asma Mehan presented in a panel at the closing event of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Hosted by ECC, the event, titled "Shaping the City: Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities," unfolded at the iconic Palazzo Michiel del Brusà in Strada Nova, Italy, on November 24–25, 2023.
This segment of Shaping the City gathered a diverse group of local and international urban planners, academics, architects, and politicians who shared insights into their efforts in designing effective solutions for preserving the future of cities. The panels included contributions from experts and scholars affiliated with institutions such as the University of Stuttgart, TU Braunschweig, University of Calgary, Texas Tech University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, TU Delft, ETH Zurich, University of Utah, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Venice, and the renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma of Kengo Kuma Associates, among others.
Programme
Day One | 24 November 2023
Palazzo Michiel
9.00am – 9.30am
Registration + Coffee
9.30am – 9.50am
Welcoming Note & Opening Remarks by ECC Team
9.50am – 11.55pm
Session 1 – Emerging Pedagogies
Moderator: Francisco Rodriguez (Architect, Fellow of AIA, Director of The Illinois School of Architecture, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Clayton T. Miers Professor)
Presentation 1 – Wang Lan (Deputy Dean, Director, Healthy City WLan Lab, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai)
Presentation 2 – Francesco Musco (Director of Research at the Università Iuav di Venezia)
Presentation 3 – Oya Atalay Franck (President of EAAE European Association for Architectural, Dean, Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering)
Presentation 4 – Manuel Pérez Romero (Chair of the Center for Sustainable Cities – IE University, Spain)
Panel discussion led by Francisco Rodriguez – Including Q/A
11.55am – 12.40pm
Session 2 – Shaping Urban Commons
Moderators: Hadi El Hage and Lucia Pedrana (European Cultural Centre, Italy)
Conversation between Petra Kempf (Professor Washington University in St. Louis) and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis (Assistant Professor, College of Architecture & Planning, University of Utah)
12.40pm – 12.50pm
Wrap up by ECC Team
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Lunch Break
2.00pm – 2.30pm
Registration + Coffee
2.30pm – 2.40pm
Welcoming Note by ECC Team
2.40pm – 3.00pm
Presentation by David Cross and Cameron Bishop (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)
3.00pm – 5.10pm
Session 3 – Addressing Displacements
Moderator: ECC Italy
Presentation 1 – Sarah Williams (Director Civic Data Design Lab – Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Presentation 2 – Flavio di Giacomo (Spokesperson/Senior Public Information Associate, Coordination Office for the Mediterranean/Rome, International Organization for Migration)
Presentation 3 – Bonaventura Visconti di Modrone & Leo Bettini Oberkalmsteiner (Founders of ACTA – Action Through Architecture, Niamey/Zurich)
Presentation 4 – Marco Labruna (Comitato internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli – CISP)
Panel discussion led by ECC Italy – Including Q/A
5.10pm – 5.40pm
Green Dip Presentation by Javier Arpa Fernandez (Architect at the Why Factory, Academic at TU Delft, Author, Curator & PhD Researcher) & Adrien Ravon (Architect, Teacher & Researcher TU Delft & the Why Factory)
5.40pm – 5.50pm
Closing Note by ECC Team
6.00pm
Aperitivo at Palazzo Mora
Day Two | 25 November 2023
Palazzo Michiel
9.00am – 9.30am
Registration + Coffee
9.30am – 9.50am
Welcoming Note & Recap from First Day
9.50am – 12.30pm
Session 4 – Digital Building Technologies
Moderator: Alicia Nahmad Vasquez (Associate Professor University of Calgary & Founder The Circular Factory)
Presentation 1 – Lucio Blandini (Professor, Head of ILEK, University of Stuttgart) & Daria Kovaleva (
Architect, PhD candidate at Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design)
Presentation 2 – Hanaa Dahy (Director of BioMatt Bio-based Materials and Materials Cycles in Architecture Stuttgart/Copenhagen)
Presentation 3 – Harald Kloft (Head of the Institute of Structural Design (ITE) at TU Braunschweig and Spokesperson of TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC))
Presentation 4 – Sina Mostafavi (Associate Professor from Texas Tech University & Director of HI-DARS lab) & Asma Mehan (Professor at Texas Tech University, Director of Architectural Humanities and Critical Urbanism Lab)
Panel discussion led by Alicia Nahmad Vasquez – Including Q/A
12.30am – 12.40am
Wrap up by ECC Team
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Lunch Break
2.00pm – 2.30pm
Registration + Coffee
2.30pm – 2.40pm
Welcoming Note by ECC Team
2.40pm – 2.50pm
Presentation of Shaping the City New Orleans by Terri Dreyer (NANO Architects)
2.50pm – 5.00pm
Session 5 – Rewilding Architecture
Moderator: Balázs Bognár (Partner at Kengo Kuma & Associates)
Presentation 1 – Botond Bognár (Professor and Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Presentation 2 – Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma & Associates)
Panel discussion led by Balázs Bognár – Including Q/A
5.00pm – 6.00pm
Session 6 – Future of Architecture Media
Walter Mariotti (Editorial Director, Domus Magazine)
Christele Harrouk (Architect, Urban Designer, Managing Editor of ArchDaily)
Panel discussion led by ECC Italy – Including Q/A
6.00pm – 6.10pm
Closing Note by ECC Team
6.10pm
Aperitivo at Palazzo Bembo
