What's Next After Now?
The National Architecture Conference 2016 'How Soon is Now'
So we've determined that now is soon, if not already past, but after the collegial debris of conference conversations have settled, what's next? We need an action plan with the otherwise at times provoking and inspiring conference, has led to a somewhat abstract and overly complex conceptualisation of who we are. Picking up the pace from some brilliant local and international speakers, the conference skewed towards governance and process over 'product'. This has meant more than ever we need to open up the club to the public; open up the conference to our clients, our politicians, and to our media.
A key strategy by this year's conference creative directors was to allocate Friday as a stocktake of where we are, and Saturday as were we are heading. A stocktake and a reflection, presentation highlights and key take outs, below.
Vincente Guallart presented the works of his foundation IAAC which has established as a new educational model of a building lab - where new technologies could be actually built and tested. the success here has led singular full scale prototypes of buildings experimentations and forms, to be respected and eventually influence the city-wide planning strategies; where Gallant assigned role as City architect of Barcelona.
FAKE industries presented an interesting look on how we question what we do - exemplified in questioning client briefs and programs for buildings, as in the Guggenheim Gallery - Helsinki competition.
Other archi-glam-tags were also in full use - that which also have applied to other industries and are of popular use; community inclusion, city building, housing affordability, and the potential digital disruption on our practice - and how we might diversity our skills. These are all hugely important, and architects well placed and well equipped to influence these areas, but again here, we need to broaden the conversation of our skills and insights so that we can ensure our place at the table of discussion.
And all in all, Adelaide is a nice place and good conference host, and its small bar / hipster scene expanding.
So we've determined that now is soon, if not already past, but after the collegial debris of conference conversations have settled, what's next? We need an action plan with the otherwise at times provoking and inspiring conference, has led to a somewhat abstract and overly complex conceptualisation of who we are. Picking up the pace from some brilliant local and international speakers, the conference skewed towards governance and process over 'product'. This has meant more than ever we need to open up the club to the public; open up the conference to our clients, our politicians, and to our media.
A key strategy by this year's conference creative directors was to allocate Friday as a stocktake of where we are, and Saturday as were we are heading. A stocktake and a reflection, presentation highlights and key take outs, below.
Vincente Guallart presented the works of his foundation IAAC which has established as a new educational model of a building lab - where new technologies could be actually built and tested. the success here has led singular full scale prototypes of buildings experimentations and forms, to be respected and eventually influence the city-wide planning strategies; where Gallant assigned role as City architect of Barcelona.
FAKE industries presented an interesting look on how we question what we do - exemplified in questioning client briefs and programs for buildings, as in the Guggenheim Gallery - Helsinki competition.
Other archi-glam-tags were also in full use - that which also have applied to other industries and are of popular use; community inclusion, city building, housing affordability, and the potential digital disruption on our practice - and how we might diversity our skills. These are all hugely important, and architects well placed and well equipped to influence these areas, but again here, we need to broaden the conversation of our skills and insights so that we can ensure our place at the table of discussion.
And all in all, Adelaide is a nice place and good conference host, and its small bar / hipster scene expanding.
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