Practice Place: Situated Solidarities
How to create conditions for an ecological and hopeful design practice? IABR 2024 introduces a Practice Place, a soft assembly space within the exhibition, and calls upon spatial practitioners to come together around the transformation of practice.
In the face of ecological, social and democratic transformations, local civil, cooperative and common initiatives self-organise an alternative sustainable approach to living and building together in the here and now. But how can these deeply local and situated initiatives learn from each other, and form a robust democratic, cooperative or common response to this time of ecosocial crisis? What infrastructures do we need for situated solidarity between local and international cooperative design practices, and systemic transformation?
The intention of this meeting is to build connections between participants. To that end, Jasmina Ibrahimovic (Rotterdams Wijktheater) shares tools for imagination from community theatre; and the London-based collective RESOLVE shares tools for scaling in.
Situated Solidarities is part of a series of assemblies in the Practice Place. The gathering is documented in a growing archive in the exhibition and forms the basis for a podcast series with De Architect. The Practice Place program leads to the development of a New Narrative for Architecture and Urbanism (NNAU), which will be festively presented during the closing weekend of the biennale.
Doors open 9:30. End 16:45.
Program
9:30-10:00: Arrival with coffee and croissants
10:00-10:15: Welcome in the Practice Place + Introductions
10:15-10:30: Joke van der Zwaard on Rotterdam's history of resident organizing
10:30-11:45 Story Circle [knowledge exchange with all participants]
12:00-13:00: Imagining Otherwise with Jasmina Ibrahimovic (Rotterdams Wijktheater)
13:00-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:30: Toolshare by Resolve Collective
15:45-16:45: Collective Conclusions - Crafting a New Narrative, Building Alliances
Opportunity for drinks at Westkop at your own convenience.
The spoken language is English.
The event is free, but registration is required.
Practice Place logo. Image: Studio Le Roy Cleeremans