What, and who, matters in architecture?
Which voices speak through the built landscape and through its written histories?
How, and from whom, is change generated?
The fourth of a series of online events by ECOWEEK, an NGO with the mission to change
people’s habits and promote sustainability. The 48-hours virtual event focused on the
intersections between environmental and social struggles, challenged, once again and with
more strength, the way we think, talk and write about architecture. A large number of women
architects, talking from multiple locations, and from different research-grounds, met online
at ECOWEEK and discussed about architecture and transitional justice, colonial heritage and
decolonization, refugee camps and humanitarian settlements, public space and feminism,
environmental and labor struggles. Going through a session of virtual lectures and panel
discussions, and a session of virtual theoretical and ‘hands-on’ workshops, ECOWEEK aimed
to offer an eye-opening and empowering experience, in order to change the way we think
about sustainability, resilience, and climate adaptation, through sustainable design and
placemaking in today’s world.
ECOWEEK is an NGO with the passion to change people’s habits and the mission to raise
environmental awareness and to promote the principles of social and environmental
sustainability through design. ECOWEEK was created by architect and environmental thinker
Elias Messinas, and since 2005, ECOWEEK has developed programs in 17 countries and a
network in 56 countries. ECOWEEK programs and workshops engage young architects and
designers, in innovative practices and sustainable design, green buildings, and placemaking,
that re-imagine and re-shape public space.
This virtual ECOWEEK event was curated by Maria Luisa Palumbo, an architect, researcher
and educator based in Rome, Italy, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas Rome
Program, University La Sapienza, GBC Italia Chapter Lazio and Rebel Architette. Passionate
and critical scholars and professionals shared their research and experience to foster a new
approach to sustainability in architecture, one deeply rooted in the search for social justice.
All the lectures and workshops presentations are online!
ECOWEEK 2021 ROME – LECTURES SESSION
24:09 Suad Amiry – Reclaiming Spaces for Social Change
43:07 Esra Akcan – Right-to-Truth and Transitional Justice Memorials
1:05:00 Sandi Hilal – Decolonizing Fascist Colonial Heritage
1:22:11 Francesca Perani – Rebelarchitette : Detoxing architecture from inequalities, a plural act
1:44:53 PANEL I – Discussing architectural practices Alessio Battistella Nasrin Mohiti Asli Aslihan Gunhan
2:22:55 PANEL II – Discussing practises of education Alessandra Battisti Alessandro Melis Anna Chiara Cimoli John Folan
ECOWEEK 2021 ROME – WORKSHOPS SESSION
4:33 WORKSHOP 1 – the place of gender
18:38 WORKSHOP 2 – public toilets for all
46:46 WORKSHOP 3 – designing the protest
1:01:51 WORKSHOP 4 – women in art and architecture
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