Te Pūtahi talk: city-making
Fjelstervang Udeforsamlingshus from Spektrum Architects.
Folkets Park from Spektrum Architects.
The talk will take place at 6pm on 16 April.
will host a free public lecture on 16 April with Joan Raun Nielsen and Sofie Willems, award-winning architects from Spektrum Architects in Denmark.
They will present their approach to co-creation and participatory practice, and discuss a few of their projects.
Sofie and Joan have worked with people in a range of contexts, including communities with small budgets, and have achieved stunning results through the use of community consultation.
Regardless of land ownership or who the client is – be it public, community or private or a mixture – their practice is applicable to a wide range of situations and to a variety of people. They focus on the co-creation and participatory process, ‘working towards design that takes into consideration the specific site qualities and social dynamics’.
Spektrum Architects works with building architecture, landscape, urban planning and public participation. Working within all of these disciplines, the office insists on an architectural approach where the inside and outside environments are inextricably linked.
This talk will be of interest to a wide range of people including urban designers, architects, landscape architects and lay people interested in urbanism.
Joan Raun Nielsen and Sofie Willems were awarded with the prestigious Nykredit Sustainability Prize 2016 for ‘placing sustainability centrally in their architecture through inclusion, social awareness and commitment’. Spektrum Architect’s site-specific work manages to combine resource-conscious and social responsibility with local responsibility, architectural poetry and sensibility.’
Free entry. The talk begins at 6pm. See the facebook event here.