Presentation - How to revive a post-disaster city

08/25/24 • 38 min

Following the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake in February, Türkiye Design Council is spearheading the design-led revitalisation of Hatay and Adıyaman in Türkiye’s southeast. With a rare example for large-scale international collaboration, Türkiye Design Council has convened a group of leading experts in architecture, design, engineering, environmental sustainability, culture, heritage and archaeology, to contribute their expertise to the reimagining of one of the world’s most ancient places. This includes masterplanners Foster + Partners, as well as Bjarke Ingels Group and renowned Turkish practices DB Architects and KEYM (Urban Renewal Center). Collectively they are working towards a vision for the next era of Hatay and Adiyaman that ensures it is resilient, sustainable and liveable for generations to come, while preserving its 2,300-year-old cultural heritage and identity. Through this process, Türkiye Design Council aims to share its experience by forming a new international model for collaboration that can be transferable to support other cities that need design and planning support after disasters, and which engages the global design community alongside local people.

Speakers - Mehmet Kalyoncu, Chairman and Founder, Türkiye Design Council

Loukia Iliopoulou, Partner, Foster + Partners

Cem Yılmaz, Founding Partner, Keym Urban Renewal Center

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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Speakers - Mehmet Kalyoncu, Chairman and Founder, Türkiye Design Council

Loukia Iliopoulou, Partner, Foster + Partners

Cem Yılmaz, Founding Partner, Keym Urban Renewal Center

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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Singapore transformation is built upon housing, parks and renewal. Going forward we need to include Super Connectors. From Settlements to Towns to Cities to Conurbations one can see changes exerted by density. Growth generated by modern economy, society, politics, culture, transportation, science and technology are powerful. Don‘t forget Super Connectors. Extreme Density is a modern phenomenon via Urbanisation. Slums and Ghost Towns appeared also. Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Concepts reacted to the squalors of Industrialisation in England. Independent Singapore adopted New Towns and Condominiums to modernise. China transformed their villages through SEZs (Special Economic Zones). The next phase of growth faces big challenges: need a New Catalyst. In Singapore, Public housing and Private housing are well established. In China, originally villagers and Government were the developers. Now it’s in the hands of the Property Market. Settlements sent Primitive Man Neighbors and “Security”; Towns brought him trade and density. High rise gave Modern Man fresh air plus Views and Prosperity today. Finally, density means Wealth, so Cities get larger and denser. We must learn to Survive or get Suffocated. Today, Cities, rich or poor urgently need help from Super Connectors.

Speaker - Cheng Siong Tan, Chairman, Archurban Architects Planners Pte Ltd

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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Presentation - The Future is a Journey to the Past

Mario Cucinella’s forthcoming talk "The Future is a Journey to the Past", will explore past and present notions of sustainability to develop the ecological thinking necessary to bridge the divide between the natural world and human activity – including, of course, architecture. Architectural history, in all its richness, becomes a relevant source of inspiration to educate us about our sustainable past while providing us with tools to become future guardians of the global environment.

A selection of projects by Mario Cucinella Architects that contribute to exploring these themes from a contemporary viewpoint and with an eye towards our future challenges will be presented. These include recent works in major cities like Milan but also in much smaller communities in Italian towns and villages demonstrating the positive impact and potential for regeneration and renewal that a single building can have in these settings.

Speaker - Mario Cucinella, Founder, MCA Mario Cucinella Architects

Chair - Jeremy Melvin, Programme Curator, World Architecture Festival

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