Watch Extinction Rebellion, Haworth Tompkins, Maria Smith, Adrian Lahoud deliver presentations on climate change at the Architecture of Emergency summit in London’s Barbican Centre from 7:00pm UK time.
The livestream has not started yet. You can watch it here, or on Dezeen’s Youtube channel and Facebook page from 7:00pm UK time on Thursday 19 September.
Organised by the Barbican and the Architecture Foundation, the summit will bring together activist, academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines connected to the built environment, to examine how the industry can take action on climate change. Dezeen is media partner for the event.
The event will comprise a series of “micro lectures” given by Extinction Rebellion‘s Mariam Aslam and Farhana Yamin, Steve Tompkins of Haworth Tompkins, Greenpeace activist Danielle Paffard, Friends of the Earth campaigner Guy Shrubsole and the Royal College of Art‘s Adrian Lahoud.
A 20 minute interval will follow the presentations, after which there will be a panel discussion chaired by Architecture Foundation‘s deputy director and Dezeen columnist Phineas Harper.
The panel will feature Monica von Schmalensee from White Arkitekter, University of Cambridge academic Michael Ramage, Renaud Haerlingen of Belgian design and research co-operative Rotor, and BC Architects & Studies founder Ken De Cooman.
Architect and engineer Maria Smith will deliver a keynote to close the event.
Extinction Rebellion are a non-violent activist group, whose campaigns have helped to bring about a paradigm shift in attitudes towards the climate crisis. In addition to organising a mass protest on Waterloo bridge earlier this year, Extinction Rebellion members also staged a “die-in” at a Royal College of Art fashion show to confront the fashion industry’s contribution to global heating.
Tompkins played a fundamental role in launching Architects Declare, a campaign calling for collective action from UK architects to combat runaway climate change. Award-winning practices such as Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects and David Chipperfield Architects.
In addition to campaigning for Greenpeace, Paffard is a former member of the anti-aviation activist group Heathrow 13. In 2015, the group narrowly avoided jail for blockading a runway at Heathrow airport to protest its expansion.
Shrubsole is a campaigner for Friends of the Earth, with bylines in the Guardian and New Statesman. His first book Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back exposes the multi-million pound corporations and complex structures tying up private property in the UK.
Adrian Lahoud heads the Royal College of Art‘s architecture department. He is also the curator of Sharjah Architecture Triennial, a brand new festival launching in November that aims to platform architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, North and East Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. The festival will explore the rights of future generations.
Alongside her position as senior partner at Swedish architecture studio White Arkitekter, Von Schmalensee is also a strategic advisor for the Swedish government as Deputy National Architect and President at the Council of Sustainable Cities.
Michael Ramage is a professor of structural engineering at the University of Cambridge, whose research focusses on developing low-energy structural materials and systems in masonry.
Belgian design and research co-operative Rotor was founded by Renaud Haerlingen. In 2016, it launched Rotor Deconstruction, an online site that sells salvaged building parts.
Maria Smith is the founder of trans-disciplinary practice Interrobang and one of the curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. The forthcoming festival will explore the possibility of de-growth as a way to mitigate climate change.
Dezeen hosts and livestreams talks and panel discussions from around the world. Recent examples include the annual architecture lecture given by Jean-Philippe Vassal at the Royal Academy in London and a conversation with Arthur Mamou Mani about his bioplastic installation for COS.
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