The Thematic Exhibition 2009
Less Does More
International Architects are increasingly required to marry the realities of both environmental and economic necessity. The "less does more" curated, interactive exhibition and seminar sessions, highlight architecture's role at the heart of world economy and explore how architecture can respond to the changing global environment. Such response will, to a large extent, decide the future for a world, as resource depletion is met with greater pressure on those same resources to be distributed evenly and equitably.
The Exhibition will include:
- Human Science, examined through specific examples of innovative housing practice in the developed and developing worlds. The Human Science strand will explore what imaginative, innovative and creative architectural thinking can contribute to the most essential and widespread building type, the home. Less Does More features both economically in the context of the need for ‘less for more’ and socially, to improve conditions for communities. Learnings include:
- Conjuring more space and utility locations with high values and high levels of regulation
- Providing housing in some of the worlds poorest urban communities and understanding and transforming their economic potential for social gain.
- Investigating the process involved in producing housing against a changing pattern of economic geography.
Roger Zogolovitch
Cezary Bednarski
Indy Johar
Joost Beunderman
- Natural Science. (New Materials) demonstrating how new research into the nature of materials could help capture and unleash huge yet currently under-utilised chemical and biological potential. Striking imagery provide inspiration and provide insight into future thinking about how science and architecture will interact.
Professor Neil Spiller and Dr Rachel Armstrong, Avatar Group.
- Masdar - The world’s largest and most ambitious zero carbon, zero waste city in the Abu Dhabi desert. The project demonstrates how to make the desert habitable to modern standards of comfort and service without creating any negative impact on the environment by combining advanced technology with clever adaptations of traditional patterns of urbanism.
- Agostinho Neto University - The challenge to make a modern university campus with the limited material and skill resources which are locally available calls for a high degree of design input so that the demands on construction are reduced. But the real reward is the creation of an institution that will help to stabilise a country that has suffered civil strife for nearly 50 years – by educating its own nationals to a level where they can help to develop the country’s resources.
- 2012 Games Stadium - How do you make a stadium that will have the eyes of the world on it for 16 days, that holds up to 90,000 people and then have seating and roof partially removed to ensure that it is a viable size in future?
Never has there been a more appropriate time to showcase the vast talent, ingenuity and innovation that exists within the industry. The exhibition will inform, provoke, challenge and incite debate and will be a main attraction at the festival this November.
