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Through the methodology of the queer spheres, we will explore queerness in Prishtina. How can we map queerness in the city in order to reflect on the possibility for a queerer future? The media for the mapping can vary from a written piece like a poem or text, a drawing, a picture, a map, an architectural drawing, a story, a piece of music…
The workshop will be tutored by Alexander Auris a 2021 Future Architecture selected fellow.
All interested should send their short bio to workshops.kaf@gmail.com September the 11th. Because of covid-19 measures the number of participants is limited and all applicants will be asked for vaccination proof and wear masks during the workshop meetings.
Venue: Innovation Center Kosovo / Date: 15-18 September 2021 / Open to All!
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Përmes metodologjisë së sferave queer, ne do të eksplorojmë queerness në Prishtinë. Si mund ta hartojmë queerness në qytet në mënyrë që të reflektojmë mbi mundësinë për një të ardhme më queer? Mediat për mapim mund të interpretohët si një pjesë e shkruar, një poezi ose tekst, një vizatim, një fotografi, një hartë, një vizatim arkitektonik, një histori, një pjesë muzikore…
Puntoria do të udhëhiqet nga Alexander Auris një nga arkitektët e përzgjedhur të Future Architecture Platform për vitin 2021.
Gjithë të inrteresuarit për pjesëmarrje në puntori duhet dërguar një bio të shkurt të tyre në workshops.kaf@gmail.com deri me 11 Shtator. Për shkak të masave anti covid-19 numri i pjesëmarrësve është i limituar dhe të gjithë aplikuesve do ju kërkohet dëshmia e vaksinimit dhe mbajtja e maskave gjatë takimeve të përbashkëta.
Vendi: Innovation Center Kosovo / Datat: 15-18 Shtator 2021 / E hapur për të gjithë!
2021 Creative Exchange: Landscapes of Care will be one of the first major events dedicated to the conversation about the New European Bauhaus and the European Green Deal, announced in September 2020 by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
The annual convention will take place online this year under the title Landscapes of Care. The participants will be addressed by Xavier Troussard, head of the New European Bauhaus at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center. The main guest at this year’s event will be Amica Dall, who holds a degree in English literature and anthropology and is one of the fifteen founders of the non-hierarchical multidisciplinary London collective Assemble, which produces architecture, art, urban design, and research—and in doing so focuses on the social and material processes of urban development.
The core of the 2021 Creative Exchange will be nine live discussions with twenty-seven young artists and experts from various disciplines that responded to this year’s call for ideas, the platform’s tool for encouraging emerging creatives to present their innovative architectural ideas to a wide range of decision-makers and stakeholders, and fifteen curators, directors, and program managers that will carry out the events in the 2021 European Architectural Program. The discussions will include participants addressing topics of public space, landscape, buildings, revisiting histories, transdisciplinarity, paradigm shifts, feminism in architecture, decolonization, and new policies.
Schedule
Landscapes of Care Short Film Premiere
FEBRUARY 26TH, 12:00 noon, CET
>> https://futurearchitecturerooms.org
Premiere of twenty-seven short videos selected in the Future Architecture 2021 Call for Ideas: Landscapes of Care as a representative introduction to the 2021 Creative Exchange.
The Creative Exchange live program will begin on the 3rd of March 13:00 CET and you can access it through the FARooms link.
Days of Oris is an international architectural symposium organized by Oris magazine from Croatia, which has been held since 2001. Every year it gathers more than 2000 participants – architects and professionals from the related fields. So far, more than 300 leading experts and speakers from all over the world have participated in Days of Oris.
As 2020 is special in many ways, so is the jubilee 20th edition of the 20 x 20 Days of Oris Festival, which will be held on 10 – 12 December 2020. The Festival is planned as 20 20-minute long lectures and includes live streaming from the Oris House of Architecture, but also interaction among speakers, audience and our partners.
The speakers at the 20×20 Days of Oris Festival are:
Sou Fujimoto – established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. Awarded with the Golden Lion for National Participation at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012;
Smiljan Radić & Marcela Correa – Radić received the Best National Architect Under 35 award by the Chilean Architects Association in 2001. In 2008 Radić and Correa held lectures at Harvard. In 2020 Radić was elected a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts;
RCR Arquitectes – Ramon Vilalta Pujol, Rafael Aranda Quiles, Carme Pigem Barceló. Winners of the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize;
Darko Radović – Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University, Tokyo, where he heads co+labo radović, research laboratory which focuses on the concepts of urbanity and sustainable development across scales;
Tadao Ando – one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects, winner of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London;
Idis Turato – represented Croatia at the Biennale di Venezia; one of the authors of the Rijeka European Capital of Culture programme; Bevk Perović Architects – authors of key projects of contemporary Slovenian architecture, winners of the 2020 Piranesi award;Thom Mayne – an internationally recognized American architect, founder and director of the interdisciplinary architectural office Morphosis. Winner of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize;Boonserm Premthada – award-winning Thai architect and founder of the Bangkok Project Studio office;Anna Heringer – German architect whose work is marked by social engagement, sustainable development and a transdisciplinary approach;
Barclay & Crousse – awarded with the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2018, the Oscar Niemeyer Prize 2016, the Peruvian National Prize of Architecture in 2014 and 2018 and the Latin America Prize 2013;
Bernard Khoury – co-founder of the Arab Center for Architecture, co-curator and architect of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national pavilion at the Venice Biennale’s 14th International Architecture Exhibition in 2014; Jordi Badia – founder and director of the BAAS architectural studio, one of the key names in contemporary Catalan architecture;
Ivan Đikić – an elected member the EMBO, the German Academy Leopoldina and the European Academy, as well as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Zlatko Ugljen – professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Architecture and the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, winner of numerous awards including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture; Mirko Ilić – designer, illustrator, activist, whose works are represented in the collections of institutions such as the Smithsonian Museum, SFMOMA in San Francisco, MoMA New York; Aires Mateus – Portuguese architect, professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland since 2001 and professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon since 1998.Kengo Kuma – one of the most prominent internationally recognized Japanese architects, a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Tokyo;Alberto campo Baeza – award-winning Spanish architect, member of the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, one of the most prestigious Spanish cultural institutions.
Moderators: Dinko Peračić and Maroje Mrduljaš.
Patrons: City of Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
You can see the photographs of the speakers here and visit our new website for more details www.daysoforis.com
In an online ceremony held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on the 21st of October Kosovo Architecture Foundation founding director was named as the 2020 BigSEE Architecture Visionary
Andrija Rusan the founder of Oris Days of Architecture, Oris Magazine and Oris House of Architecture had these words to say about Bekim
If one studies in Kosovo, continues his education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then returns to Kosovo, it is a clear indication that one has a vision.
Bekim established KAF – the Kosovo Architecture Foundation. KAF is the generator of new ideas consistently emphasizing the need for constant change and development. KAF is an organiser of an annual festival presenting the key names from the world of architecture, design, film and other art disciplines. The thoughts and opinions of these creative individuals may have an important impact on the local environment. KAF abounds in ideas and actions resulting in their annual workshops, lectures, Venice exhibitions …etc. KAF activities are supported by the Getty Foundation, and they have also attracted much attention of the EU MIES Award and AGA Khan Award organisers.
Bekim is one of the founders of the Future Architecture Platform which represents a network for the exchange of ideas and aims to provide answers to many difficult questions that the society is facing nowadays.
He does all that from his home in Prishtina in cooperation with the important global network that he has managed to establish. Their activities are based on the following vision: Things can change for the better by encouraging the participation of the local community in the planning and implementation processes.
Bekim Ramku is a man of strength and knowledge. He knows what he is doing, he believes in his goals and eagerly pursues them, even though they might sometimes seem unattainable.
Bekim, you should never stop!
Curator of the award: Andrija Rusan
In the online ceremony held on the 21st of October Ramku thanked the BigSEE jury, curators and the BigSEE community for the honor bestowed on him and in his reception speech spoke of the great creative potential of the SEE region.
To read the BigSEE interview with Bekim Ramku visit the following link: Bekim Ramku, Kosovo – BigSEE Visionary 2020
We’re super excited to inform you that Kosovo Architecture Festival made it to the Dezeen Events Guide for the second year in a row. Go to Dezeen Events Guide website to learn more on all the events that made it to the 2020 list.
Dezeen Events Guide is a listings guide to architecture and design events around the world. It contains all the key fairs, conferences, design weeks and biennales that take place each year.
Created by Dezeen, the world’s most popular and influential architecture and design magazine, the guide will grow in future to include smaller events such as exhibitions, talks and events that take place as part of bigger citywide events.
We all, with rare exceptions, dwell in rooms.
The room is the base unit of a building. It is enclosed and defined by walls, floor and ceilingand usually features windows and doors. A room is not a corridor. Nor is it a hall or a closet. One can define a room almost intuitively. It is a sizable space where something – a lot – can happen. It can be occupied or, in other words, lived in. Our most simple dwelling structures are single or rudimentary rooms: tents, igloos, boxes.
The room is a spatial construct that has changed very little in the course of human history. It is a constant that has survived many variables. When designing a place for life and work, an architect usually creates rooms: the living cells of most projects. Their proportions, sizes, types of “membranes”, levels of insulation, acoustics and so on, determine how we act and how we feel in a space.
In this pandemic era, we have become hyper-aware of the materiality and dimensions of our rooms. Rooms have somehow become more important. During periods of self-isolation, it is likely a room where you will while the time away. You cannot leave your room so easily anymore; it holds on to you with an unusual centripetal force – and you hold onto it.
The era of video conferencing has exposed our private rooms online. These days, we glimpse each other’s decorated walls or books on shelves in call after call. The fragments of these rooms become part of our own spaces, blurring the boundaries of public and private spheres, of what is tangible inside and what is immaterial elsewhere. The opportunity to peek into these unfamiliar spaces of the others —and have our own projected outwards—is at once entertaining and unsettling.
Future Architecture Rooms
This project, Future Architecture Rooms, is an attempt to build an environment at the intersection of the real and the immaterial.
Twenty-seven institutions, the members of the Future Architecture platform, have constructed a context for exchange, knowledge transfer, discussion, education, and presentation. As a community, the members have created a space that can respond to the effects of the pandemic, without being disrupted by them. It does not represent a total exodus into the digital sphere, but it is a parallel space that allows this pan-European network to develop projects productively beyond its habitual formats of conferences and workshops.
Here, each member of the platform has its own room which serves as a form of online residency. Each institution occupies an equal space, regardless of its real-world size, history or budget. In the rooms the curators and producers, directors and managers as well as their collaborating architects, critics and publics are free to communicate as they wish.
At the moment, every room features a short video about the members’ interests, methods, their teams, but also about buildings and places in which they work. These videos allow us to peek behind the scenes of some of the most interesting critical projects in Europe; to understand the people and spaces behind their institutional logos.
In the coming months, the members will be able to diversify the content and curate their rooms in unique ways. The rooms will be filled with live feeds, texts, comments, open discussions and more. The project participants also talk about their futures. How are they adapting to the consequences of Covid-19? How are they going to work in the coming months? And how are they approaching the theme of the next Future Architecture platform Open Call, Landscapes of Care?
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Kosovo Architecture Foundation calls all students and interested in architecture from Kosovo and beyond to contribute in organizing the Kosovo Architecture Festival, which will be held from the 15th of September till the 15th of October 2020.
Because of the pandemics this year all activities will be organized digitally. All interested should send a short email with their contact details by the 30th of August on events.kaf@gmail.com or events@kosovoarchitecture.com
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Fondacioni Kosovar i Arkitekturës fton studentët dhe gjithë ata të interesuar në arkitekturë nga Kosova dhe jashtë saj për të kontribuar në organizimin e Festivalit të Arkitekturës në Kosovë që këtë vit do mbahet nga 15 Shtatori deri me 15 Tetor 2020.
Përshkak të pandemisë këtë vit të gjitha aktivitetet do mbahen në platforma digjitale. Gjithë të interesuarit duhet dërguar një email të shkurtër me kontaktet e tyre në events.kaf@gmail.com apo events@kosovoarchitecture.com deri me daten 30 Gusht.
ACAN is a voluntary network of individuals from within architecture and its related built environment professions taking critical action to transform our industry in the face of the climate and ecological crises.
ACAN exists to address the way our built environment is made, operated and renewed in response to the climate emergency. As a network of individuals, we channel personal energy, expertise and action towards a common goal – the systemic change of our profession and the construction industry as a whole. We see this as a matter of urgency.
Our mission is to mobilise a new movement of professional activists towards this goal by building an open, supportive and inclusive organisation. ACAN empowers individuals to proactively seek change and facilitates collective effort through a shared platform built on collaboration.
ACAN has 3 overarching aims that guide all we do:
1 – DECARBONISE NOW
We seek to radically transform the regulatory, economic and cultural landscape in which our built environment is made, operated and renewed in order to facilitate rapid decarbonisation of the built environment.
2 – ECOLOGICAL REGENERATION
We advocate the immediate adoption of regenerative & ecological principles in order to green the built environment, prioritise communities and ecosystems at threat and promote the recovery and restoration of natural environments.
3 – CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
We call for a complete remodelling of our professional culture. We must challenge and redefine the value systems at the heart of our industry and education system. We seek to create an open network to share resources and knowledge to aid in this transition.
ACAN are Future Architecture Platform 2020 Selected Creatives.
About the lecture & workshop / September/18/2020 19:30 CET
Lecture + workshop about the climate and biodiversity emergency, architecture’s part in it and how YOU can get involved to make a difference.
ACAN formed in London over the summer of 2019, in this talk we will take you through how ACAN was conceived, founded and is expanding. We will explain the principles and activities fundamental to the network, talk through some of the actions we have taken and explain the changes we are trying to bring about. We will discuss how to build effective campaigns and make an inclusive network of engaged individuals working collaboratively to address the climate and biodiversity crises.
There will be a short Q&A session before we divide the audience into groups. With a facilitator from ACAN you will be asked to discuss what issues affect your region and areas of expertise, how these could be overcome and what would be needed to make changes for the better.
This will not be the a run of the mill lecture and audience participation will be vital! Don’t be afraid, we will create a fun, inclusive forum for people to speak their mind and meet others who share their concerns. The movement is building and we want you all to be a part of it.
In the first 20 minutes we will take you through how ACAN was conceived, founded and is expanding, we will explain the principles and activities fundamental to the network. We will talk through some of the actions we have taken and explain the changes we are trying to bring about. We will discuss how to build effective campaigns and make an inclusive network of engaged individuals working effectively to address the climate and biodiversity crises.
There will then be a short Q&A session before we divide the audience into groups to discuss what issues affect your region and areas of their expertise, how they could be overcome and what would be needed to make changes for the better.
This will not be the a run of the mill lecture and audience participation will be vital! Don’t be afraid, we will create a fun, inclusive forum for people to speak their mind and meet others who share their concerns. The movement is building, and we want you all to be a part of it.
All interested to join the workshop can register through the workshop Link.