The New NAi
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Project Description
A multiyear agenda of the national architecture institute between 2007-2012, to rally the design disciplines around the most urgent questions of our time: 1 secure food chains 2) protect public health 3) renew energy 4) keep space space as a place 5) create quality time 6) preserve social cohesion 7 stop privatizing gains while socializing the losses.
Project Region
EU Programme or fund
Description of the project
Summary
"Architecture of Consequence proves that any notion that architecture should be an "expression of its time," or should do no more than express the vanity of its commissioners, pales into insignificance when compared to its tremendous potential for resolving urgent societal problems".
Key objectives for sustainability
See the seven themes to rally the design disciplines around the most urgent questions of our time: 1 secure food chains 2) protect public health 3) renew energy 4) keep space space as a place 5) create quality time 6) preserve social cohesion 7 stop privatizing gains while socializing the losses.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
See the seven themes to rally the design disciplines around the most urgent questions of our time: 1 secure food chains 2) protect public health 3) renew energy 4) keep space space as a place 5) create quality time 6) preserve social cohesion 7 stop privatizing gains while socializing the losses.
Key objectives for inclusion
See the seven themes to rally the design disciplines around the most urgent questions of our time: 1 secure food chains 2) protect public health 3) renew energy 4) keep space space as a place 5) create quality time 6) preserve social cohesion 7 stop privatizing gains while socializing the losses.
Results in relation to category
A worldwide traveling exhibition, in collaboration with numerous local organisations
a series of country pavilions at the pre-eminent biennales world wide
A book publication
A website with continued uploads of new content
A widespread adoption of the promoted sustainability and inclusivity agenda in contemporary discourse and practice
How Citizens benefit
A follow up exhibition to "Architecture of Consequence", titled "The Consequences of Architecture", voicing the immediate experiences of citizens, using projects in the spirit of the projects, assessing real results of architectural good intentions.
Innovative character
A fundamental shift from a artistic and disciplinary discourse towards a problem- and challenge oriented design practice, starting with the need of society rather than the motivations of a designer. In 2008 this was an angle still widely rejected in architecture, being constructed around the reputations of "masters".
