Carbon Stories: Architects, let’s calculate and act on CO2 reduction!
Date: Thursday September 22nd 2023, 19:30-21:30
Location: Keilepand
Language: English
Thursday 21 September GROUP A-CARBONLAB, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and KeileCollectief organize the 5th Carbon Stories debate titled ‘Architects, let’s calculate and act on CO2 reduction!’ at the Keilepand. This evening MVRDV, Urban Climate Architects, GROUP A and la-di-da will share their journey towards decarbonizing their projects and debate how this will change their role as an architect. Register here.
As we have just experienced the warmest planetary June and July since weather reports have been documented, the urgency to mitigate climate change is literally palpable. It is of critical importance for the construction industry to understand its current CO2 emissions and its potential for reduction or even storage in climate positive projects. What are the methods architects use for calculating CO2? How does it (re)define their role in relation to other stakeholders?
After three years of fundamental research into the role and relation carbon has to architecture, architecture firm MVRDV presents their calculation guidelines and what these could mean for architects pursuing impact with their work. The architectural teams of GROUP A, Urban Climate Architects and la-di-da took this challenge to the core of their practice. Speakers will share their journeys towards decarbonizing their projects and how they see their role in the construction industry.
How to achieve a fundamental understanding of carbon based design in an era of urgency where every building, every ton of CO2 and every second counts? How to get from input to output in time to make a significant difference in projects’ CO2 reduction? What roles do the teams see for the architect in the trajectory of making Carbon Based design work and on which scale? These questions will be addressed in the debate ‘Architects, let’s calculate and act on CO2 reduction!’ that will be moderated by Geert Maarse.
Investors, contractors, suppliers, policymakers, designers, educators, students and designers are all invited to share and debate the do’s, the don’ts, lessons learned, availability and quality of data, calculation methods, roles and carbon based design guidelines.
Title: Architects, let’s calculate and act on CO2 reduction!
Date: 21 September 2023
Time: 19:30 – 21:30
Location: Keilepand
Language: English