Rethinking Urban Materiality, Time as a Resource

À la raréfaction des ressources et l’imprévisibilité de l’avenir, Anupama Kundoo ne répond pas par le normatif, mais par l’abondance et la fluidité. Renonçant à se limiter à la position technique ou d’auteure de sa pratique, cette architecte originaire d’Inde revendique un travail porté sur l’innovation socio-économique. L’investissement dans la recherche des matériaux et des techniques de construction constitue pour elle une source infinie de connaissances, renouvelées et cumulées à chaque occasion de conception : des grandes leçons tirées au microdécisions prises. Anupama Kundoo enseigne à Berlin, et nous rappelle pour ces Rendez-vous de l’urbanisme placés sous le signe de la ressource, que l’imagination et la cumulation des savoirs resteront encore, et dans les décennies à venir, parmi nos plus précieux leviers.

Rendez-vous avec Anupama Kundoo, et Manuela Salvi pour la modération, mercredi 18/10 à 11h00, sous le grand dôme du Pavillon Sicli (Route des Acacias 45 à Genève).

• Introduction d’Anupama Kundoo par Manuela Salvi
• Intervention d’Anupama Kundoo en anglais
• Questions diverses à Anupama Kundoo

Infos pratiques : Durée 1h30 / Journée sur inscription / Gratuit / En anglais.

Our built environment is the physical stage on which all human stories are lived out. This physical stage is the historical and ongoing manifestation of human imagination operating within real (or, imaginary!) constraints. Anupama Kundoo advances the idea that architectural imagination must transcend design and enter the realms of materials science and economics where some of the bigger questions reside. She will discuss the thrust of her inquiries which have been to find practical ways to fulfill the universal human aspiration for refuge, purpose, and social engagement through extensive material research and experimentation. She will discuss ‘Human Time as a Resource’ in the quest for new materiality and critically examine the way the time value of money has nudged us towards code-based design and the industrialized production of building components and, sometimes, even.

About Anupama Kundoo : Prof. Dr. Anupama Kundoo’s research-oriented practice has generated people-centric architecture and urban strategies. Her rigorous research and experimentation questions basic assumptions and construction habits adopted by humanity across time. Rather than focussing on shortage, she seeks abundance through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care and sense of community. The act of building produces knowledge just as the resulting knowledge produces buildings. Her body of works was exhibited as a solo show ‘Taking Time’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in 2020. She has taught Architecture and Urban Management at various international universities including Yale University and GSAAP Columbia University strengthening her expertise in rapid urbanization and climate change related development issues. She is currently Professor at Potsdam School of Architecture. She received the RIBA Charles Jencks award, the Auguste Perret Prize and the Building Sense Now global award of the German Sustainable Building Council in 2021 and the Global Award for Sustainable architecture under UNESCO patronage in 2022. Her studios are based in Berlin in Germany and Pondicherry in India.

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Conférence organisée par l’office de l’urbanisme (OU).

crédit photo : Andreas Deffner