KS discussing Commoning Kits at ABAR

Upcoming ABAR focuses on KS’s exhibition Commoning Kits. An exhibition presenting innovating prototypes designed by 13 Scandinavian architectural offices to discuss urban commons, meeting places and sharing in our future cities.
The event will be opened by Johan Pitura from Kjellander Sjöberg, followed by a discussion of the exhibiting architects about their proposals and prototypes for the exhibition. The public is invited to participate in the discussion.

Lecturers:
Johan Pitura (Kjellander Sjöberg)
Uffe Leth (Leth + Gori )
Susanna Rahm (Nilsson Rahm)
Anna Nilsson (Nilsson Rahm)
Magnus Kvalheim (Vardehaugen)
Anna Forslöw (Ahaa)

The event is free and open to everyone.

Time: Thursday Sept 5 at 17:30
Place: Form/Design Center, Lilla torg 9, Malmö

KS curating exhibition at Form/Design Center

What do we need to build apart from housing?
What creates identity, local involvement and a sense of belonging in an urban neighbourhood?

The exhibition Commoning Kits at Form/Design Center showcases 13 examples of how new meeting places can be created to generate and kick-start qualitative development and community in an urban district.

The exhibition is a dialogue process and an investigation presenting innovative prototypes – toolkits – designed to be used in different settings and cities, based on desired needs.
Behind the proposals are some of the Scandinavia’s most creative architectural practices:

Arrhov Frick
EriksenSkajaa
Förstberg Ling
In Praise of Shadows
Krupinski/Krupinska
Lenschow & Pihlmann
Leth&Gori
Marge
Nilsson Rahm
Norell/Rodhe
Rintala Eggerston
Sted
Vardehaugen +AHAA

The point of departure for this exploration is the development of Sege Park, which will become a new hub in Malmö with the ambition to be a showcase for social and sustainable urban development.

Commoning Kits offers several opportunities for open Think Tanks and further discussions about the city. The inauguration opens with a seminar where guest speaker Finn Willams together with the exhibiting architects will discuss how we can create better communities in our cities.

The discussion and exhibition is a collaboration between Kjellander Sjöberg, Form/Design Center in Malmö and Malmö City.

Welcome to a discussion about Commoning Kits!

Place: Form/Design Center, Lilla Torg 9, Malmö
Seminar: 6 Sept kl 15:00 – 17:00
Vernissage: 6 Sept kl 17:30 – 20:00
Exhibition runs: September 6 – October 10
Initiative and idea: Kjellander Sjöberg
Curator: Stefan Sjöberg
Exhibition designer: Kjellander Sjöberg

KS at the seminar Urban Dynamics – Scandinavian influence in Czechia

Ola Kjellander is invited as a guest speaker to a conference about sustainable cities at NEXT Institute in Brno in Czechia, where he will give an insight into the Swedish approach to planning sustainable districts and urban mobility principles. After the conference, there will be a public lecture on how we program our neighborhoods and what influences people’s movements.
The events are a part of the NEXT Institute’s research track Urban Dynamics which explores the mechanisms and strategies of urban mobility.

Conference:
Time: Friday May 5 at 13:00
Place: The Distillery, Pekarska 76, Brno, Czechia

Public lecture:
Time: Friday May 5 at 17:00
Place: Moravian Gallery, Governor’s Palace, Moravske namesti 1a, Brno, Czechia

KS giving a lecture on sustainable urban development at a workshop at ArkDes

Johan Pitura from KS will present projects, experience and thoughts on urban design at a workshop Sustainable development at ArkDes, The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, on 16th March. Sustainable urban development is highly relevant – to the climate, its changes, to the environment and also to the growing number of people living and working in cities. The interest in Nordic cities is large; the workshop is a part of The Nordic Council of Ministries’ branding and export strategies of sustainable cities to India, China and North America. KS will lecture on the topic during the day.

Time: Thursday, 16th March 2017, 12:00-17:00
Place: The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Aula ArkDes, Exercisplan 4, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm

Think Tank 015

The Poetics of Wood – solid timber construction & inspiration in wood

This Think Tank sets out to further investigate how wood and solid timber technology could be used as a means of achieving material sustainability in the built environment and urban fabric of our cities.

Timber construction has the potential to supply one of the few renewable resources to contemporary architectural practice. Timber buildings reflect multiple possibilities with inherent benefits such as flexibility, lightness, good acoustic conditions, rational assembly, and singular massiveness.

People in general seem to have a direct relationship to wood, a material that is both soft and robust, warm and adaptive at the same time. New construction methods using cross laminated timber (CLT) are flexible, lightweight and faster to assemble than any other compatible system.

The gain in ecological footprint and reduced carbon dioxide emissions produced by timber construction seem to be of pivotal importance. The technology may easily be adopted and carried out by various communities globally; communities of varied cultural, financial and technological backgrounds.

The increased use of wood raises demands for and expectations of sustainable forestry, one of the major focal points to be achieved to fulfil the internationally agreed UN global climate goals

Panel:
Waugh Thistleton Architects (UK)
In Praise of Shadows (SE)
Folkhem (SE)
Strombro Building Workshop (SE)

Time and place:
24 November 2016, 17:00
Repslagargatan 15a
118 46 Stockholm

Information:
The event is free of charge. Refreshments will be served.
Everyone is welcome; please, invite friends and colleagues.

Limited seats!
RSVP by Tuesday, November 22 to rsvp@kjellandersjoberg.se

KS lectures during Archtober in NYC

Kjellander Sjöberg will present their winning proposal of the design innovation competition NBCC at the Nordic Approaches to Creating Livable & Sustainable Urban Environments event at the Van Alen Institute in New York.

Building on the inspiring discussions from last year’s session on the role of architecture, policy and technology within climate adaptation, the Nordic Consulates of Norway, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, and Danish Cleantech Hub together with Nordic Innovation are proud to co-host a joint Nordic official Archtober event again this year.

Wednesday, 19th October 2016
15:00-18:00

Van Alen Institute
30 W 22nd Street
New York, NY

Archtober is New York City’s Architecture and Design Month, the sixth annual month-long festival of architecture activities, programs and exhibitions taking place during the month of October.

Learn more about the event

Official opening programme: The Forests of Venice

Official opening programme: The Forests of Venice, Biennale Architettura 2016

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the official opening events of the exhibition The Forests of Venice, Collateral event at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Official opening programme The Forests of Venice
Serra dei Giardini, Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi 1254, Castello, Venice, Italy.

26th May at 17:00 – 18:00: Press event, unveiling exclusive material.
Introduction by the Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke.

Speakers:
Jan Åman, Atelier Slice
Stefan Sjöberg, Kjellander Sjöberg
Sandra Frank, Folkhem
Livia Podestá, The Swedish Institute

27th May at 17:00 – 22:00: Exhibition and pavilion vernissage ceremony.
Inauguration by the Swedish State Secretary to Minister for Rural Affairs Sven-Erik Bucht, Elisabeth Backteman, followed by an introductory speech by the initiators and curator.

Speakers:
Jenny Bergström, The Swedish Insitute
Stefan Sjöberg, Kjellander Sjöberg
Sandra Frank, Folkhem
Jan Åman, Atelier Slice

28th May at 17:00 – 22:00: Think Tank 014 – a lecture and open discussion.
Moderator: Hans Ibelings – architectural historian.

Speakers:
Chris Sharples, Shop Architects (USA)
Andrew Waugh, Waugh Thistleton (UK)
Alex de Rijke, dRMM (UK)
Tobias Olsson, Swedish Association of Architects (SWE)

Panel:
Jan Åman, Atelier Slice
Stefan Sjöberg, Kjellander Sjöberg
Sandra Frank, Folkhem
Morten Johansson, DinellJohansson
Katarina Lundeberg, In Praise of Shadows

The Forests of Venice is initiated by Kjellander Sjöberg and Folkhem, who have produced the exhibition together with the support of the Swedish Institute. The curator is Jan Åman. Additional support from Swedish Wood, Sveaskog and Martinsons. Including seven selected exhibiting architectural practices – Architects without Borders Sweden, Arrhov Frick, DinellJohansson, Horn.Uggla, In Praise of Shadows, Carmen Izquierdo and Urbio.

The initiative brings together some of Sweden’s most prominent architectural practices and highlights wood as a sustainable construction material, while illustrating the interaction between nature and the man-made human habitat in order to respond to climate change and limited resources.

Our host for Serra dei Giardini is Microclima.

The Forest of Venice

KS designs an exhibition at the Biennale Architettura 2016 in Venice

Urbanity, architecture, forest, wood and climate; are the focal points for Sweden’s contribution to the Venice Biennale 2016

The Forests of Venice, Collateral Event of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Serra dei Giardini.

The Swedish exhibition The Forests of Venice has been officially selected as a Collateral Event during the Venice International Architecture Exhibition. The initiative brings together some of Sweden’s most prominent architectural firms, highlighting wood as a building material and illustrates the interaction between nature and habitat for addressing climate change with limited resources.

The Forests of Venice is initiated and produced by Kjellander Sjöberg and Folkhem with the support of the Swedish Institute. The exhibition is curated by Jan Åman, and is supported by Swedish Wood, Sveaskog and Martinsons.

The exhibition is housed in Serra dei Giardini, a greenhouse built in 1894 and situated between the Biennale’s two main exhibition areas – Giardini and Arsenale. The exhibition takes the city of Venice’s origin and situation as a point of departure, drawing similarities to contemporary times when climate change and rising sea levels pose a global problem of flooding to threatened towns and densely populated coastal areas worldwide.

In dialogue with the Doge’s Palace; one of the city’s most public buildings and symbol of its representative government – Kjellander Sjöberg have created a pavilion installation of solid wood which sits alongside the greenhouse in the garden. The Forests of Venice continues inside the greenhouse where seven selected architectural firms – Architects without Borders-SE, Arrhov Frick, DinellJohansson, Horn.Uggla, In Praise of Shadows, Carmen Izquierdo and Urbio – speculate on how classical Venetian architecture and urban elements can be reformulated into strategies for our time using wood as the main building material.

The exhibition The Forests of Venice connecting to the Biennial theme Reporting from the Front, which explores the architect’s role in the struggle to improve the living conditions of people worldwide.

Our host for Serra dei Giardini is Microclima.

The Forests of Venice is open from May 28 until September 18, 2016.

Serra dei Giardini
1254 Castello, Venedig