05.11.2021 | 13:00 - 19:00

Post Carbon Material Practices
Realities in the Age of Climate Crisis

Symposium online & on-site*
AA Visiting School at the ABK Stuttgart

Registration and Tickets via Eventbrite – please register here

A hybrid one-day symposium by the AA London at ABK Stuttgart on forward-looking material practices in architecture and design in the age of climate change. Covid-19 and the climate emergency have enhanced our material sensibility and refocussed our vision onto our real problems. How can architecture help to build a better world? Material itself is a pressing design question and task. Developing acute sensibilities about material’s role in ecological process has become increasingly urgent.

The symposium addresses these questions in a new hybrid format. It is staged in‐person at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and simultaneously broadcasted live on the Zoom and YouTube Channels of the participating institutions. Three roundtables feature AA and ABK staff, invited guests and leading experts around the themes of ‘Embodied Material Actions’, ‘Expanded Material Agency’ and ‘Affective Material Matters’. 

Speakers are:
Marjan van Aubel (Solar Designer, Het Nieuwe Instituut) – Solar Biennale
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Harvard Graduate School of Design) – Stop Construction Moratorium
Sven Pfeiffer (studiosvenpfeifer, Bochum University of Applied Sciences) – MY-CO-X Collective
John Palmesino & Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (Territorial Agency, AA School of Architecture) – Oceans in Transformation
Galaad van Daele (ETH Zurich, Accattone Magazine) – Material Matters
Ye Jin Lee & Hanna Fastrich (Tropos) – Architecture in the Anthropocene
Kerstin Müller (Zirkular) – Circular Economy and Reuse
Christopher Pierce (AA Visiting School of Architecture) – Hybrid Education

*Event location
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
Campus Weißenhof
Am Weißenhof 1
Building F (Neubau 2), Vortragssaal
70191 Stuttgart

Chaired by
Marianne Mueller (ABK, AA Visiting School Stuttgart)
Chrissie Muhr (ABK, AA Visiting School Stuttgart)

Further updates and information on the website https://stuttgart.aaschool.ac.uk
and on the flyer here (pdf)

Partners
The Architectural Association / AA Visiting School, London
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design / ABK Stuttgart

Funded by the
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

The 2G rule applies (vaccinated or recovered).