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IAF Summer School with zwkr (online)

09.05.23

Join LINA Fellows zwkr online to consider how design can help people, animals, and plants live together.

Event Information

IAF Summer School with zwkr (online)

09.05.23

18:30-20:00

Free, booking essential

Event Information

IAF Summer School with zwkr (online)

09.05.23

18:30-20:00

Free, booking essential

The IAF Summer School 2023 continues to explore the theme of CONNECTION with Zwahlen Krupičková (known as zwkr), an emerging practice that combines architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning with a focus on public space.

Outside spaces are an essential part of our daily lives. Zwkr seek to improve the environment and increase biodiversity with small and local interventions, using the cycles of materiality as a designing tool. The future must consider not only buildings but also their existing surroundings. 

Through LINA, zwkr are also working with the Haus der Architektur in Graz and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona.

 

Presentation and discussion, Tuesday 9 May, 18.30-20.00 (on Zoom)

Using examples from their practice, zwkr will present strategies on how people, animals, and plants can live together and have to be considered together: an inclusive design not only for people.

A built garden is a place of coexistence for people, plants, and insects. Landscaping around a high school contributes to connection and learning. How can we make the most of everyday opportunities to enhance the existing environment? After the presentation, there will be time for group discussion.

Register for Tuesday.

 

Important information:

The IAF Summer School 2023: CONNECTION is open to all, including professionals, academics, graduates and students. It will be of particular relevance to architects, artists, activists, creatives, cultural practitioners, community workers, urbanists, geographers, film-makers and anyone with an interest in architecture, sustainability, design and the built environment. CPD points are available for participating architects.

It is free to attend the Summer School, but booking is required.

This year’s Summer School is in three parts. It opens on 5-6 May with Space Saloon + The MAAK and concludes on 12-13 May with Palace of Un/Learning. (These sessions are in person at the IAF headquarters.)

It is possible to book for one, two, or all three parts of the Summer School. Places are limited, so please register only if you plan to attend.

 

The IAF Summer School 2023 is brought to you in collaboration with LINA.

This is the first of three years in which the IAF Summer School forms part of the LINA programme, an exciting new collaboration between architecture organisations in 23 European countries and 25 competitively selected LINA Fellows. LINA’s goal is to help steer the architectural sector towards clean and circular practices through Learning, Interacting and Networking in Architecture and supporting emerging professionals with innovative and forward-looking projects.

LINA is coordinated by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and co-funded by the Creative Europe initiative of the European Union.

The IAF Summer School 2023: CONNECTION and the LINA Writing Award, a partnership between the IAF and dpr barcelona, comprise the IAF’s contributions to this year’s LINA programme.

 

Photo: Garden in Blossom by zwkr.

 

SPEAKERS
Kateřina Krupičková

Kateřina Krupičková was born in London, went to school in Prague, and then studied architecture at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague. During her studies, she completed internships in Copenhagen and Zurich and studied as an exchange student at ETH in Zurich. Since graduating in 2017, she has been living in and around Basel, working on diverse projects from restoration to urban planning.

Martin Zwahlen

Martin Zwahlen was born in Basel, went to school in Bern, and then completed his Bachelor’s degree in architecture at EPF Lausanne. After a six-month internship in Beijing, he completed his Master’s degree at ETH Zurich. Since 2018, Martin has been living and working in Basel in a landscape architecture office. Since 2022 he has been writing regular articles on open-space topics for the online magazine Architektur Basel.

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