Rethinking Materiality

Today, architectural imagination must transcend design and enter the realms of materials and environmental science as well as economics. The work questions basic assumptions about construction, reevaluating methods humanity has adopted over time and examining the way the time value of money has nudged us towards industrialized production. Rather than focusing on shortage, the practice seeks abundance through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness—ingenuity, time, skills, care and sense of community. The act of building produces knowledge, just as the resulting knowledge produces buildings. What we make makes us. We need to experiment to evolve.

Questions? Contact: Meike Schalk

A-TALKS

A–TALKS is a KTH public lecture series on contemporary practices, histories, and theories of architecture
and the environment. All lectures take place at KTH School of Architecture and are open to the public.

2026: Earth

What is the role of architecture when the foundation of our lives — the earth we build from and the planet we live on — is under threat? How are architectural practices and ideas challengingthe status quo and opening up new imaginaries of a future world.