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SIA Virtual Conference
Architecture Saving OUR World - Our conference brings together speakers from all over the world to discuss some of the most pressing issues that we are facing in the architecture industry now. This year, in response to the global pandemic, we will be hosting a virtual conference and exploring three themes: Radical Indegenism, Design Empowerment and Empathic Intervention. These themes have been chosen with special attention to align with the specific expertise from our curated list of inspiring speakers.
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Special Dialogue with Anna Heringer
*Limited Seats* 28 Sep / 7:00 - 8:15pm Singapore time
How to Save OUR World while Running a Sustainable Architecture Practice
By Anna Heringer, Studio Anna Heringer | Germany
< DESI Training Center, Bangladesh by Studio Anna Heringer.
Photography: Naquib Hossain and B.K.S. Inan
28
September
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3.00 - 6.00 pm
Singapore time
Radical Indigenism
The CONTEXT of design
/ Local issues, indigenous culture, materiality, ecological sustainability
Building on the term āRadical Indigenismā recently coined by environmentalist designer Julia Watson, the Conference starts with acknowledging the indigenous culture and local wisdom. How can architecture learn from the vernacular system, materiality and philosophy, to improve our environment and our lives? Focusing on the CONTEXT of design, discussion in this session will range from cultural heritage, traditional material, rural development, renewable energy, sustainable habitat, to human existentialism.
Low Shi Ping
- Contributing Editor of design and architecture magazine d+a
- Director of content development consultancy LSP Communications
29
September
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3.00 - 5.30 pm
Singapore time
30
September
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7.00 - 9.30 pm
Singapore time
Design Empowerment
The PROCESS of design
/ Participatory, accessible, community engagement, social resilience
The second session of the Conference will investigate the PROCESS of co-designing and co-working with communities. How can architects engage the local community through design and construction? And in the process, gaining deeper appreciation of the core value of the community that the architecture ultimately serve? Speakers in this session will share their unique methodology and experience in working with diverse communities, and discuss how architecture could be more collaborative, accessible, empowering, and resilient, whether in time of peace or crisis.
Dr. Ar. Lai Chee Kien
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Empathic Interventions
The IMPACT of design
Humanistic, purposeful, urbanistic, tactical, place-making, transformative
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The new post-COVID world presents much more volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Welcome to VUCA 2.0. How can we design buildings and cities more purposefully so that they can fight against climate change, natural disasters, health risks and future pandemic? The final session of the Conference will examine the IMPACT of architecture from the human level to the urban level, and discuss the meanings of impact, design ethics, and the inevitable trade-offs, while pushing architecture to the frontline of humanity and ecological wellness.
Dr. Jeffery Chan Kok Hui
- Asst Prof, HASS, SUTD
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(Not inclusive of Special Dialogue with Anna Heringer)
(Not inclusive of Special Dialogue with Anna Heringer)
Special Dialogue
with Anna Heringer
