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The Atlas Archive: Replay the Exchanging Knowledge series!
10 april 2025
ATLAS - Exchanging Knowledge, is a serie of six events.
Discover them here below!
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Event 6: online lecture by Prof.dr.ir. Masi Mohammadi
In conversation with ir. Anja Dirks
Smart Health and Empathic Interiors: Scientific Research in Design Projects
Join Masi Mohammadi and Anja Dirks for an inspiring session exploring how scientific research and empathy-driven thinking are shaping smarter, healthier, and more inclusive interiors. With a focus on smart health, active aging, and user-centered environments, they share insights into the dynamic interplay between scientific research and interior architecture daily practice, illustrating how each informs and enriches the other.
Masi is Smart Living Scientist, Full Professor and Chair of Smart Architectural Technologies at the Eindhoven University of Technology and Architecture in Health at HAN University of Applied Sciences. Her aim is to develop an evidence-based framework for embedding emerging technologies (such as domotics, AI, robotics and IoT) into architectural concepts and systems. By implementing design principals and methods in several Living Labs throughout the Netherlands, her chair aims to explore the next generation smart homes, and to examine the impact of these interventions on the socio-spatial context and real life of users.
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Event 1: Online lecture Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, in conversation with Prof. Graeme Brooker
Repair. Upgrade. Keep in Place.
Complex constructions are difficult to maintain and industrial manufacturing processes decrease the lifespan of objects, not only in product design but also in architecture. Repairability is becoming less of a concern – replacement seems to be the norm. In her lecture, Dr. Silke Langenberg encourages to rethink the way we build, starting already with the planning phase.
Dr Silke Langenberg is Full Professor for Construction Heritage and Preservation at ETH Zurich. Her professorship is associated to the Institute for Monument Preservation and Construction History and to the Institute for Technology in Architecture.
This lecture is co-funded by the European Union and for everyone involved with interior architecture and design: from students, academics, practitioners, or other professionals in the construction industry.
Event 2: Online lecture Dr. Suzie Attiwill
Dr. Suzie Attiwill, in conversation with Dr. Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla
Dr Suzie Attiwill is Professor of Interior Design at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and currently leads the practice research PhD Interior Design cohort in Australia, Europe, and Asia.
Event 3: Online lecture Prof. Ezio Manzini
Prof. Ezio Manzini in conversation with Dr. Albert Fuster
Lecture number three speculates on "The City of Proximity" by Prof. Ezio Manzini. In conversation with Dr. Albert Fuster, this talk invites us to imagine the so-called 15-minutes city, where functional and relational proximities enable citizens to feel closeness with each other. For over three decades Ezio Manzini has been working in the field of design for sustainability, for which he has recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Interested in social innovation for sustainable changes, he started DESIS, an international network of schools of design for social innovation.
Event 4: Online lecture by Dr. Bie Plevoets
Dr. Bie Plevoets in conversation with Dr. Inge Somers
As Found. Experiments in Preservation.
Architecture in Flanders and Brussels reflects a unique position in dealing with the existing built environment. Although the experimental approaches vary with different design methodologies, the audacity of the interventions remains, whether it is a medieval structure or a twentieth-century building. The project 'As Found' (2023-2024) focused on seven experimental approaches in preservation today: ensemble, void, reconfiguration, inside out, traces, mirror, and nuance.
Having co-curated the exhibition “As Found” (VAi & De Singel, 2023-), Dr. Bie Plevoets is Assistant Professor at Hasselt University where she obtained a PhD on adaptive reuse. Her research focuses on adaptive reuse theory and various conceptual strategies to intervene in the existing fabric.
Event 5: online lecture by Dr. Joanna Cloy
Dr. Joanna Cloy and Mathew Freeman
How to build safe and sustainable indoor environments and therefore future societies by eliminating harmful chemicals in interior design.
Planetary pollution is one of humankind’s greatest challenges, impacting people, wildlife, and the environment. This lecture gives an insight about harmful compounds that can be found in everyday interiors and discusses safe-by-design solutions. Sharing her expertise as an environmental scientist, Dr. Joanna Cloy elaborates on necessary policy and industry actions to protect health and the environment for a safe circular economy in interior design.
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