Day 1: Climate Change and Urban Opportunities
Session 1: Welcome from Christina Gaiger PRIAS (10.00am)
Welcome from Christina Gaiger PRIAS
Equitable Architecture
In this session Christina Gaiger PRIAS will be joined by Linda Thiel, Director of the London Studio & Partner at White Arkitekter and Imogen Clark, co-founder of Make Space for Girls to discuss the inclusive and intersectional design of public space.
Session 2: Infrastructure: Home & Away (11.15am - 12.45pm)
Presentations from the below speakers followed by Q&A.
Chaired by Phil Zoechbauer, GIA President
Cone on the cop - Chris Stewart, Convenor of GIA Sustainability Committee & Director, Collective Architecture & Joanne McClelland, EAA President & Associate Director at GLM
With Cop26 taking place in Glasgow between the 1st and 12th November 2021 when 30,000 delegates including heads of state, climate experts and campaigners will come together to agree coordinated action to tackle the climate emergency there is an opportunity to promote the work of Scotland’s grassroot communities and bring awareness throughout the City of the serious issues affecting us all. This talk will provide an overview of some of the work being done with the communities around the COP26 campus by the Glasgow Institute of Architects and COP26 activity Scotland from our RIAS Chapters.
(Y)our City Centre – Glasgow Past, Present and Possible - Graham Ross, Architect, Urban Designer, Planner. Executive Director Austin-Smith:Lord
Working in collaboration with local communities (resident, business, civic, cultural) and local and national stakeholder the (Y)our City Centre project has sought to develop Handbooks for Change to help shape the future of Glasgow city centre and respond to the local and global urgencies of our era; climate and ecological emergency, societal inequalities and how to regenerate our largest city’s centre post-covid.
Re-imagining our legacy infrastructure systems - Lawrie Robertson, Partner, Head of Strategic Planning, Buro Happold
Our legacy infrastructure systems, including many miles of canals and former railways, provide unused or underused networks woven through our cities and regions. Simple reuse projects can enable these networks and the disused building or vacant land along them to play transformational new roles: a reused stretch of rail line or canal can at once be a community active travel route, a visitor attraction, a blue/green infrastructure corridor and a catalyst for new development - helping a city or region to adapt to climate change, enhance community health and inclusion and support the emergence of new economies. Moreover, these projects do not need to be budget-busting grands projets, they can be delivered flexibly, incrementally and with the involvement of many different actors and funding sources.
This talk explores these new potentials through the experience of Buro Happold’s recent projects in North America and Europe – particularly the transformation of the Erie Canal in New York State and city scale projects such as Detroit Future City, the High Line in New York City and the emerging Spreepark regeneration in Berlin.
Session 3: Built Environment Roundtable (2.00pm - 3.30pM)
Chaired by Christina Gaiger PRIAS
Future by Design: Scottish Platform for Global Change
The session will start with a short presentation from Tom Morton and Mae-ling Lokko on the British Council “Future by Design” project followed by a roundtable with the panel discussing future design, advocacy and leadership. The panel will also include Scotland’s Chief Architect, Ian Gilzean; Gary Clark, HOK London Studio; Glora Lo from ACAN Scotland together with students Dilara Kuran and Sissy O’Neill who worked on the project.