THE OBEL AWARD TALKS

THE OBEL AWARD brings you a great selection of professionals working in the field of architecture and design, through five talks at the World Congress, side events their SDG pavilion. ​

Deep dive into topics of WELLBEING, MENDING, EMBODIED EMISSIONS, UNGROUDING or the CHALLENGES FACING CITIES, hear from the experts and get inspired by new award-winning solutions. ​

SIDE EVENT OBEL AWARD TALK: UNGROUNDING
Sunday JULY 2 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Ungrounding,a conversation on architectural interventions with the design studio CAVE_BUREAU with Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi, founders of Cave_bureau, Sumayya Vally architect, founder and principal of the architecture and research firm, Counterspace, and Tomà Berlanda, Professor of Architecture. The conversation will be moderated by Aric Chen, director of the Het Nieuwe Instituut.

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SIDE EVENT OBEL AWARD TALK:  EMBODIED EMISSIONS
Monday JULY 3 at the Danish Architecture Center (DAC)

Meet Sam Draper, co-founder of Seratech and OBEL AWARD 2022 winner, Kjetil Thorsen, co-founder of Snøhetta and OBEL AWARD juror, Matthias Schuler, founder of Transsolars, Martha Lewis, Head of Materials at Henning Larsen Architects and Albert Taylor, Co Founder and Director at AKT II. Moderated by Chris Luebkeman, Strategic Foresight at ETH-Zürich

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OBEL AWARD TALK AT BELLA CENTER: CREATIVE MENDING
Programme Tuesday JULY 4

If mending implies caring for and improving something that is weak or in danger, can architects ‘mend’ the climate? If not, what is their role? How can local materials and techniques be understood, evaluated for their sustainability and used effectively? With Anna Heringer, Tiantian Xu, Reinier de Graaf, Jeanne Gang, Martha Thorne.

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OBEL AWARD TALK AT BELLA CENTER: CHALLENGES FACING CITIES
Programme Wednesday JULY 5

Who makes the city of today? Cities are places of conflicting interests. Is it possible to reconcile some of these? Can cities move fast enough towards a circular economy to assure survival? Is policy top down necessary or the answer? How can we meaningfully engage people from the individual level to broader levels of community, city and societal actions? With Carlos Moreno, Nathalie de Vries, Joan Clos. Moderated by Marthe Thorne.

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OBEL AWARD TALK AT BELLA CENTER: WELLBEING
Programme Wednesday JULY 5

Architecture’s ability to impact on both the physical and mental wellbeing of people – by design and by making informed uses of all four dimensions – is an issue that deserves continuous discussion, attention, and self-questioning among the architectural professions. We will hear two lecture-style talks of divergent yet overlapping approaches to wellbeing through architectural interventions. With Junya Ishigami and Martha Schwartz.

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OBEL AWARD TALK AT BELLA CENTER: ADAPTATION
Programme Wednesday JULY 5

The theme for the current OBEL AWARD submissions is Adaptation. Here, adaptation refers to the necessity, and possibilities, of architecture in adapting to a world in flux, given the interrelated phenomena – both underway and foreseeable – of climate change, social upheaval, and political instability. The ecosystems, landscapes and human structures and systems that were once intertwined with architectures of permanence can no longer be taken for granted. Instead, adaptation calls for architecture that confronts uncertainty and acts through time so that both human and non-human life can continue to survive and even thrive.”? With Sumayya Vally and Louis Becker

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OBEL AWARD: UNPAVILION

The unPAVILION is a statement piece – that prompts curiosity, debate, and reflection on our contemporary and future uses of resources. It also points to the counterproductive nature of greenwashing.

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