CAFx 2022 – Sustainable Cities - Mini Symposium

Sustainable Cities - Mini Symposium

Instruktør: Diverse

Copenhagen Architecture Festival is proud to present the three internationally esteemed urban thinkers, Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne and Saskia Sassen

Through their individual interventions and in discussion that will follow, they will all address the question on Creating sustainable cities: what are the most urgent challenges our cities are facing today, what are the solutions?

Martha Thorne, architect, curator, author/editor, Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid, Saskia Sassen, sociologist and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and Carlos Moreno, scientist, university professor and the driving force behind Paris' 15-minutes city plan, approach cities and the city space from very different perspectives. Yet, their analysis of the most pressing challenges our cities are currently facing present significant points of convergence: the need for more sustainable urban spaces and social practices, the need for a closer, less alienated experience of the city, unmediated by traffic, pollution, long distances, unaffordability or income inequality—the need to reclaim our cities.

But how? Which concrete steps can be taken to create better cities, for everybody? Which policies and urban designs should be implemented? Which architectural solutions can be introduced?

Cities such as Paris, Barcelona and Copenhagen constitute virtuous examples of how higher liveability can be achieved through top-down processes of urban change.

However, what actions do we take when the interests of policy-makers and other big agents of urban transformation are not aligned with the people's? How do we tackle environmental degradation, spatial neoliberalization and the decrease in life quality caused by modernist urban planning?

The interconnection between architecture, economic forces and society in the making of the city of the future will be explored by these three keynote speakers in dialogue on September 21st from 14:00 - 16:30 at Cinemateket. Entrance fee: 100 kroner.

Thank you to Malene Freudendal, Teh Spanish embassy, Obel Award and the festival’s primary funds: Københavns Kommune, Realdania, Det Danske Filminstitut and Dreyers Fond for supporting the event.

Danmark, 2022
Kendes ikke, 150 min.
Engelsk dialog
Tilladt for børn over 15 år