Dream – Play – Challenge: The Future of Residential Living

The act of »residing«, so fundamental to humanity, faces unprecedented challenges today. In the context of current socio-economic and cultural uncertainties, precarious ecological conditions, forced up-rootedness, re-defined concepts of gender and family, and recent pandemic realities, we have to decide: How do we want to live together in the future?

This international symposium will discuss playful and creative responses to changing desires for a home in societies that find it more and more difficult to provide one.

GUESTS

Keynote
Tina Saaby, citymaker and placemaker

Organisers
Sarah Rivière, Wiltrud Simbürger and Daniela Urland for n-ails e.V in co-operation with the Nordic Embassies in Berlin

Panel Moderators
Katherina Bonnevier (MYCKET), Sarah Rivière, Wiltrud Simbürger

Panel Respondents
Amy Kulper, Associate Prof., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Jane Rendell, Prof., Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
Jenni Reuter, Associate Prof., Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Verena von Beckerath, Prof., Bauhaus University, Weimar, and partner at Heide & von Beckerath, Berlin
Sigrún Birgisdóttir, Prof., Iceland University of Arts

PROGRAM

Thursday, 24th June, 10.30–18 h
Welcome from the Ambassador of Finland; Theresa Keilhacker (President of the Architektenkammer Berlin); and the symposium organisers Sarah Rivière, Wiltrud Simbürger & Daniela Urland
Panel One: Collectivity – Dreams and Challenges
Co-Dream: Happenings of a Home Through a Cosmological Play / Talk & Game
16 h
Keynote by Tina Saaby

Friday, 25th June, 9.30–17 h
The Metaphorical House / Talk & Exhibition
Panel Two: Spatial Agency – Burning Down the House
Panel Three: Individuality – I Dwell Therefore I Am
16 h
Round-up Discussion / Moderators & Respondents

In Kooperation mit n-ails e.V.