In the past century, the temperature of the global ocean has increased more rapidly than at any given time in the past 11,000 years. Storm surges and cloud bursts have intensified, and the level of our groundwater is rising—a scenario that seems to only worsen in the future. As sea levels rise and storm surges increase, the interactions between humans and water intensify. This is a call to renegotiate our relationship with natural processes and nature. Our future landscapes call us to establish new perceptions and renewed landscape practices spanning from our daily lives to policies and politics.
For an afternoon, Copenhagen Architecture Forum (CAFx) and Center for Emerging Landscapes at the Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA) have joined forces to focus on our meeting with the water: How has water been perceived historically and today?, What are future perspectives? What are current landscape practices and what points of actions and policies are needed to adapt to and mitigate these anthropogenic climatic changes? We have invited international experts and artists from Georgia to give us their perspective on the above together with some of Denmark’s leading researchers, practitioners and policy makers within the field.
The day is divided into blocks under the themes:
- Notions of water, cities and processes
- Agencies of rivers and forming landscape practices
- Present policies and future landscapes
PROGRAM:
2 pm: Welcome + introduction by Josephine Michau, Director of CAFx and Katrina Wiberg, Head of Center for Emerging Landscapes at AAA.
2.15 pm: Blok 1: Concepts
Notions of water, cities and processes / Blue, grey and green landscapes: deep concepts and future perspectives
In a rapidly changing climate with changing waterscapes, growing urbanization and declining biodiversity – how do we perceive and understand deep concepts of water and the entanglement between geological and human processes and take on a renewed perception of the modernistic views on cities?
Tinatin Gurgenidze, Co-Founder, Curator at Tbilisi Architecture Biennial - Perceptions of water in Georgia
Tom Nielsen, Architect, PhD, Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA) – Earthly Cities
Thomas Juul Clemmensen, professor of landscape architecture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) – Geological resonance
3.00 pm: Break
3.10 pm: Blok 2: Case studies, architectural practice
Agencies of rivers and forming landscape practices
Climate change causes changing waterscapes. However, flood disasters are closely related to human practices and understanding of control. Furthermore, land use changes are critically required. Thus, landscape practices and new perceptions and practices are needed. The case studies exemplify how we may engage to form new practices and understandings.
Gigi Shukakidze, Co-founder of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial – Vera River in Tbilisi - Near, Now, Next
Rikke Munck Petersen, Architect and Landscape Architect KU – Ribe Riversystem
Kasper Albrektsen, Postdoc AAA – Co-shape (co-creation, small scale, changing land-use, transformation by using the existing)
Lado Shonia, Architect - How politics have shaped the ecological landscape in Georgia
4.15 pm: Break
4.20 pm: Blok 3: Present policies and future landscapes / Policy Making - a way forward
Which policies halter the blue-green transition, and which policies are needed to move forward? What are the key disputes, and do we know of best practices from which we can learn?
Karsten Arnbjerg, Climate Scientist
4.50 pm: Break
5 pm: Blok 4: "Unmapping Energy Geographies”: film + introduction by Tekla, an artist, filmmaker, and essayist based between Berlin and Tbilisi. Currently, Aslanishvili is a postgraduate fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) at Berlin University of the Arts.
The program is still under development - it will be updated.
Price: 50 kroner, free for CAFx Community Members.
Coffee, tea and water included.
The symposium has been made possible by the generous support of The Agency of Culture and Palaces, Denmark
