Geneva Seminar 2022

Designing the ecological transition. Architectural projects, urban actions and territorial policies

15 December 2022

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Geneva Seminar 2022
15 December 2022 | 09:00 – 20:00
Fondation Braillard Architectes

 

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The Fondation Braillard Architectes invites you to the Geneva Seminar 2022, devoted to territorial action. Following this day of presentations, we also invite you to join us in celebrating our 35th anniversary.

While 2022 draws to a close with mixed ecological results on every front, the Fondation Braillard Architectes perseveres with its positive energy and its messages of hope.
Join the Geneva Seminar, devoted this year to designing the ecological transition. Come and discover architectural, urban and territorial projects put forward by women and men on the front lines of change, and see how the disciplines of the built environment, at every scale, can repair and care for an Earth that is welcoming to all living things!

During this seminar day, we will present the fieldwork of the teams of the Transition Workshop 2022, design experiments and territorial policies carried out across Europe by professionals and territorial stakeholders and, above all, we will take the opportunity of our 35th anniversary to launch the Transition Workshop 2023.

The Geneva Seminar 2022 is dedicated to the late James Lovelock and Bruno Latour, irreplaceable guides towards the ecological transition.

 

Programme:

 

08:30 Welcome

09:00 Introduction

  • Sylvain FERRETTI – Director General, Office de l’urbanisme, Canton of Geneva
  • Panos MANTZIARAS – Director, Fondation Braillard Architectes

 

TRANSITION WORKSHOP | THE REVIEW

 

09:15 The Geneva landscape city: another way of cultivating the land.
The case of Perly-Certoux

Round table:

  • Guillaume DE MORSIER – Kunik de Morsier Architectes
  • Michelle TRANDA_PITTION – TOPOS Urbanisme
  • Gwenaëlle ZUNINO – Fondation Braillard Architectes

TW22 teams:

  • The common ground (Vasileios CHANIS – EPFL, with Tamara BAUMGARTNER – EPFL, Marie-Clémence BREUILLOT – EPFL and Shyam SIRIMALLA – EPFL)
  • From Periphery to Perlyfarmy: engaging malleable ecosystems (Laure VOIS – AREP, with Sanja PLATISA – EPFL, Romain PHAN – EPFL and Piera PASTORE – University of Naples)
  • More than a line: REliving Perly-Certoux (Charlotte DAUTREMONT – University of Liège, with Chiara CARAVELLO – University of Liège and Sophia LY – EPFL)
  • Perly Serre 2.0: acting flexible (Lucas MOURELLE – Losinger-Marazzi, with Valentina DALL’ORTO – Politecnico di Milano and Alexis DE ARAGAO – EPFL)

 

10:45 Lessons learned

  • Jean-Luc GAUTHEY – Office de l’urbanisme, Canton de Genève
  • Fernand SAVIGNY and Prisca WASEM – Perly-Certoux
  • Sophie HEU-RÉGNIER and Pierre-Olivier SPAGNOL – Losinger-Marazzi
  • Pascal TANARI – Tanari Architectes
  • Anna GRICHTING – Bordermeetings

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

 

11:45 Resources vs. Development, a complicated equation

  • Dominique BOURG – Philosopher, Honorary Professor at the University of Lausanne, member of the FBA Scientific Council

Lunch break

 

THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION OF TERRITORIES: BETWEEN THEORY, PRACTICE AND POLICY

 

14:00 Scales of transition

  • Duncan BAKER-BROWN – University of Brighton.
    New materials and recycling
  • Florian HERTWECK – University of Luxembourg.
    Luxembourg in a frugal yet joyful transition
  • Aleth de CRÉCY – Hager Partner AG Genève.
    Practice in (land) planning projects
  • Philippe NATHAN – 2001, Luxembourg.
    Transition towards a self-sufficient bioregion

 

15:30 Public policies and territorial scales

  • Giovanna RONCONI – Territorial Services, City of Nyon.
    Medium-sized towns as actors of the transition   
  • Arnaud DUTHEIL – CAUE 74.
    Grand Annecy, an archipelago conurbation?
  • Sarah SCHALLES – Swiss Association for Sustainable Neighbourhoods.
    Ecological labelling practices in the voluntary sector  
  • Peter DROEGE – Lichtenstein Institute for Strategic Development.
    Urban ecosystems and fossil emission reduction in Silesia, Poland
  • Marie-Josée VIDAL – Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning, Luxembourg.
    The new Master Plan for Spatial Planning (PDAT)
  • Arianne WIDMER – Office de l’urbanisme, Canton de Genève.
    Cross-border territorial vision for the Grand Genève – Horizon 2050

 

TRANSITIONWORKSHOP 2023

 

17:45 Official launch

18:00 Strategic partnerships for the ecological transition

Round table:

  • Sylvain FERRETTI – Director General, Office de l’urbanisme, Canton of Geneva
  • Christian BRUNIER – Director General, SIG
  • Vincent KAUFMANN – Vice-Dean, ENAC/EPFL
  • Alexandre HEDJAZI – UN/UNIGE Chair of Excellence
  • Pierre ZUMWALD – President, Rentes Genevoises (to be confirmed)

 

THE FBA’S 35TH ANNIVERSARY

 

18:45 A brief history of the FBA by Elena COGATO-LANZA – President of the FBA Board

19:00 The Foundation in the City by Robert CRAMER – member of the FBA Board

19:15  Ariane BRAILLARD

19:30 Closing remarks by Panos MANTZIARAS – FBA Director

19:45 Drinks reception

 

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