Hope Conversation: Architecture & Hope

On this Sunday afternoon, Dutch and international guests will join Nature of Hope curators in a conversation on hopeful ideas, theories and design practices that offer a vision for change and are at the service of our planet and all living beings. The conversations are preceded by a film screening. 

Join Nature of Hope co-curators Catherine Koekoek and Alina Paias for a conversation as they discuss how to practice architecture when it feels like no future is possible. Hope is intricately linked to moments of grief, loss and collapse – feelings that become more and more general in the context of climate change and continuing extraction. In this curators’ conversation, we invite practitioners who work on regeneration in extreme conditions. What can spatial practitioners do in the face of collapse?   

The afternoon starts with a screening of Foragers by Jumana Manna (64 min)  

Followed by a conversation with Nature of Hope co-curators Catherine Koekoek and Alina Paias with Karin Reisinger and Golnar Abbasi.

Karin Reisinger is an architect, researcher and teacher in Vienna. She has been working with four women in the small town of Malmberget for about eight years. The entire town of Malmberget is set to disappear in the face of a series of mining operations, including an iron ore mine. The Listening Station, on show in the Nature of Hope exhibition, documents how they reclaim their surroundings as a place full of life, Sami culture and history, and not just exploitation

Golnar Abbasi is an artist/architect, researcher, and publisher based in Rotterdam. Her work is concerned with notion(s) of spatiality, coloniality, practices of resistance, and construction of histories. She is co-founder of the collective WORKNOT!

Check the recording:
Part I: Videorecording
Part II: Videorecording

Language: English 

The event is free, but registration is required

Please note that a ticket for the event does not give access to the exhibition. Tickets for the Nature of Hope exhibition can be purchased via this link.

Malmberget: Från det ena berget till den andra [Malmberget: From one Mountain to Another]. Image: Eeva Linder