Learn about co-creating large scale ubran area development. As part of the Rotterdam Architecture Month AIR will examine new ways in which community involvement informs urban design, architecture and planning.

White Arkitekter x KCAP

On this opening evening, we will look at large-scale urban developments and learn how leading international design practices co-create a sustainable future. White Arkitekter (Sweden) will show how they are moving a whole city! AIR invites anthropologist Viktoria Walldin and architect Anna Edblom to share their inspiring work with the citizens of Kiruna. Due to ground deformation as result of mining, parts of the city need to be moved several kilometers away. This is one of the most ambitious relocation projects in recent decades. Architect and urbanist Jeroen Dirckx, a partner at KCAP (Rotterdam), will share the firms FredericiaC project. An extensive waterfront regeneration framework that will expand the inner city of the Danish city of Fredericia by about 25%. Jeroen Dirckx will talk about the intense co-creative process with local citizens and competing design firms.

Program
19.00 hrs – Welcome at Venture Café
20.00 hrs – Start program
20.10 hrs – White Arkitekter on co-creating urban transformations and moving Kiruna. By anthropologist Viktoria Walldin and architect Anna Edblom
20.40 hrs – Jeroen Dirckx, partner KCAP on co-creating FredericiaC waterfront development
21.10 hrs – Thoughts on co-creating a sustainable future with local communities
21.30 hrs – End of program