Africa like the rest of the world has a rich built heritage that faces the ever-present danger of extinction due to lack of documentation, conflict and gentrification. This lecture hopes to spotlight the gaps yet to be bridged in our public knowledge of endangered buildings in Africa and in fact, other parts of the world.
A Uniform hosted webinar series in which we'll be exploring the changing relationship with space & the built environment. In this 60 minute webinar, we will discuss how the world has changed and how we must change with it.
This mapping of seminal sustainable ideas across knowledge domains (from architecture to fashion design to product design to manufacturing et al) to showcase the traction between Ecology and Design in India will be launched at the London Design Biennale in June 2021, and thereafter travel across India.
What would you do with an old and empty building? Would you tear it down, leave it abandoned, or could you transform it into something new? Cities all around the world are wrestling with this very challenge. The question then becomes, what can architecture do about it?