Symposium: Rebuilding is not a Metaphor

Calling practitioners and students in the fields of the built environment and everyone else interested in social and environmental sustainability! Join our symposium based on the newly published ’Rebuilding is Not a Metaphor’ anthology edited by Ingeborg Hau and Bhawna Jaimini. 

The Rebuilding Symposium features a team of inspiring voices, working in different geographical and social contexts, to share their knowledge, tools and methods for sustainable rebuilding with and within local communities. 

Meet:
Alessandra Gola, Abdal Rahman Kittana, Rizvi Hassan, Khwaja Fatmi, Anna Mette Exner, Kainat Azadzoi, Corrin Chan, Leena Shibeika, Vũ Minh Diên, Maria Cynthia Y. Funk, Ruchi Varma, Hassan Chaachouh, Asbjørn Lund, Søren Nielsen, María Fernanda Rivera Flores, Ramatu Aliyu, Natalie Mossin, Adam Linde Nielsen, Bhawna Jaimini, Ingeborg Hau

The program is relevant for everyone studying, training or working in professions of the built environment. Key words: Rebuilding, social sustainability, environmental sustainability, local materials, local building practices, international exchange, local agency

The programme will include panels, debates and workshops on five Rebuilding themes. Presentations and interactive sessions will alternate, and there will be great opportunities to talk to different people, exchange knowledge and learn from practitioners from all over the world.

April 16 - Day 1
 

09:30 - Introduction to the Book and the Symposium by Ingeborg Hau and Bhawna Jaimini
09:45 - Where it all began - The Rebuilding Project 

10:00 - PLENARY I: Prioritize the Process 
With Anna Mette Exner, Maria Fernanda Rivera Flores, Rizvi Hassan, Hassan Chaachouh, Adam Linde Nielsen

11:00 - Breakout Session I: Process as a tool for building agency for and with the marginalised (Discussion)
11:00 - Breakout Session II: Whose voice matters more? Navigating the challenges and opportunities of working with diverse user groups. (Workshop)

12:00 - BREAK

13:00 - PLENARY II: The Value of Aesthetics
With Vu Minh Dien, Søren Nielsen, Rizvi Hassan, Ruchi Varma, Alessandra Gola(online)

14:00 - Breakout Session III: What does beauty look like during conflict?
14:00 - Breakout Session IV: How are emergencies shaping access to aesthetics?

14:30 - BREAK

15:00 - PLENARY III: Everything is Temporary
With Khwaja Fatmi, Asbjørn Staunstrup Lund, Maria Cynthia Y. Funk, Kainat Azadzoi, Adam Linde Nielsen

16:00 - Breakout Session V: Working on something to never complete it (Workshop)
16:00 - Breakout Session VI: Reimagining our world through repair and rebuilding (Discussion)
 

April 17 - Day 2

9:00 -  Introduction by Ingeborg Hau and Bhawna Jaimini 

9:20 - PLENARY IIII: International exchange is needed
With Ramatu Aliyu, Ingeborg Hau, Søren Nielsen, Maria Cynthia Y. Funk

10:20 - Breakout session: Rethinking International resource exchange (Workshop) 
10:20 - Breakout session: Rebuilding as a diplomacy tool

11:00 - BREAK

11:15 - PLENARY V: Local Agency is Fundamental
With Anna Mette Exner, Maria Fernanda Rivera Flores, Leena Shibeika, Ruchi Varma, Abdalrahman Kittana (online)

12:15 - Closing discussion

12:45 - Closing remarks

Sign up now and get the unique opportunity to learn from brilliant practitioners and artists from all over the world. Participation is free but requires you sign up in advance. (Limited capacity).