Date: Monday, November 25, 2024
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: IJzaal, PDZ
Admission: Free
Registration: Required, Register here
Description
In collaboration with publisher NAI010, IABR presents the book launch of It’s About Time: The Architecture of Climate Change. Professor Derk Loorbach will discuss the practice of backcasting as a valuable method for envisioning and realizing transformative futures. With this approach, we imagine a future in which today’s problems have been resolved, allowing us to work backward to the present to identify the necessary steps for change.
Loorbach, one of the world’s most cited scientists, will share inspiring examples along with other experts, demonstrating how backcasting is not only a powerful tool for architectural design but also plays a key role in ecological transition, policy-making, and artistic projects. How can we harness our collective imagination to create a radically different future?
Speakers
Derk Loorbach
Professor of Socio-Economic Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Director, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT); Academic Leader, Climate Research Initiative Netherlands (KIN)
Joyce van den Berg
Chief Design and Landscape Architect - Department of Urban Planning and Sustainability, City of Amsterdam
Toon Maassen
Co-founder and member - De Ceuvel, Researcher Regenerative Entrepreneurship, Alternative Ownership Models and Sustainability at HvA & LeerLevels and resident and member at De Warren.
Peter Veenstra
Founder and Landscape Architect at Lola Landscape Architects.
Rosanne van Wijk
Ecosystem futurologist at art collective de Onkruidenier
Saskia van Stein
Director IABR
