Join us for this participative workshop as part of the Women in Architecture Festival 2025 at the Felleshus, an inspiring exchange with Nordic and German architects, artists and researchers. Share ideas, spark discussions in a creative space, and explore new perspectives on sustainability in architecture.
The building sector is a major driver of the ecological crisis, making sustainable architecture more urgent than ever. But are current solutions enough? Too often, decision-making is limited to a selected few, and the scope of sustainable design remains too narrow.
Through the Dream – Play – Challenge workshop method, we will explore sustainability from social, economic, political, and artistic angles – both locally and globally. We have invited a group of inspiring women from diverse fields to Berlin for this creative exchange.
Programme
- Welcome by the Nordic Embassies
- Introduction to Dream-Play-Challenge by Dr. Sarah Riviere | Architect | Falmouth University
- Themes to inspire from the last DPC-workshop with Dr. Sarah Riviere and Shivani Chakraborty
- Workshop session with Susanne Schmitt and Katrine Østergaard Bang: Connecting play and challenge in your work with sustainability
- Lunch
- Workshop session with impulses from the protagonists as well as the participants
- Wrap-up and take-aways
Workshop Protagonists
Katrine Østergaard Bang | DK | Danish Association of Architects
Prof. Pirjo Sanaksenaho | FI | Aalto University Helsinki (tbc)
Susanne Schmitt | DE | artist and activist
Camilla Moneta | NO | Virvle | architect and sustainability counsellor (tbc)
Dream – Play – Challenge: a different kind of workshop
Dream – Play – Challenge is a cooperative network working to transform how we design and build architecture in the future. DPC works through a different form of creative exchange which prioritises the idealism of dreams, the creativity of play, and challenges us all to raise our voices for change.
In a series of workshops, publications and symposia, Dream – Play – Challenge invites participants to dream into future ways of working and to playfully co-create a vibrant and just space of exchange on a series of topics that are vital to the built environment. It challenges the current rigidity of the architecture profession, setting up different ways of working across the built environment.