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Sunday

22 April

Rafael Moneo’s museum building: guided tour

12:00

Our building is celebrating its twentieth anniversary! Why not join a guided tour of Rafael Moneo’s design, inaugurated in 1998. A part of the tour will take place outdoors.

Sunday

22 April

Family Sunday: Build your own museum

13:00

Our building is celebrating its twentieth anniversary! Explore ArkDes and then build your own museum using paper and hot-melt adhesive in our studio – and take your work home! For children aged 4 to 12.

Tuesday

24 April

Planetary Protocols: Daniel Fernández Pascual och Alon Schwabe (Cooking Sections)

18:00

In the fourth talk of the series, Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe – co-founders of London-based Cooking Sections – will present “The Empire Remains Shop” – a public installation that speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today.

The Empire Remains Shop
Empire Shops were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British how to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they intended to make foods such as sultanas from Australia, oranges from Palestine, cloves from Zanzibar, and rum from Jamaica available and familiar in the British Isles. The Empire Remains Shop, a public installation that opened in 2016, speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. The Empire Remains Shop works as a platform to investigate and explore postcolonial spatial implications behind the ‘exotic’ and the ‘tropical’, conflict geologies, the financialisation of ecosystems, ‘unnatural’ behaviours, the ecological perception of ‘invasive’ and ‘native’ species, the architecture of retiring to former colonies, or the construction of the offshore and Special Economic Zones.

Open talk followed by a response by Lisa Enzenhofer, architect guest lecturer at KTH School of Architecture. In English.

Curated by James Taylor-Foster
Produced by Elisabet Schön
Graphics by Daly & Lyon
Photo by Ryan Lowry

In collaboration with KTH.

Other talks of the series
3 April Anna Puigjaner
10 April Kim Cook
17 April Durga Chew-Bose

Sunday

29 April

Rafael Moneo’s museum building: guided tour

12:00

Our building is celebrating its twentieth anniversary! Why not join a guided tour of Rafael Moneo’s design, inaugurated in 1998. A part of the tour will take place outdoors.

Sunday

29 April

Family Sunday: Build your own museum

13:00

Friday

4 May

Planetary Protocols: Beatriz Colomina

18:00 Auditoriet

Planetary Protocols is a new, cross-disciplinary series of talks that brings together international thinkers and practitioners to present their work and perspectives on architecture, design, identity, and statehood. In the fifth and final talk of the series, Beatriz Colomina—Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University will talk on and around the theme of social media and its connection to the built environment

Broadcasting Yourself: Social Media Urbanism
Perhaps the most important transformation in the social, cultural and economic life in the 21st Century has been the arrival of social media. A new space for design has opened up. Indeed, social media is the ultimate space for design. Through its multiple platforms, we not only communicate and collaborate with wider and wider groups, but also refashion ourselves. Images, videos, texts, emojis, stickers, tweets, gifs, memes, comments, posts, and reposts are deployed to construct a digital personality. There was no social media before 2000. There has been an astonishing, exponential acceleration in the number of channels, users, interconnections, and speed. A few seconds has become a space for design. This is a complete transformation of the way we live with huge implications for the city.

This talk will explore social media as a new form of urbanization, the architecture of how we live together. Social media has constructed a new kind of virtual city that has taken over many of the functions of the traditional city. We now inhabit a kind of hybrid space between virtual and real. As with the arrival of mass media in the early 20th Century, social media redraws again what is public and what is private, what is inside and what is outside. It even redefines and restructures physical space, the architecture of houses and cities.

This talk will treat social media as a material technology with specific physical effects. While there is a lot of discussion and research into social media in the areas of communication, sociology, economics and politics, the specific urban condition of social media remains unstudied. Treating social media as a new urban condition re-frames the conversation about this technological paradigm: the new forms of creativity and activism, challenges to privacy, collective decision-making, self-construction, new forms of labor, domesticity, and risk.

Open talk followed by a response. Both the talk and the response will be in English.
Curated by James Taylor-Foster
Produced by Elisabet Schön
Graphics by Daly & Lyon

Free entry; registration required.

Sunday

6 May

Rafael Moneo’s museum building: guided tour

12:00

Our building is celebrating its twentieth anniversary! Why not join a guided tour of Rafael Moneo’s design, inaugurated in 1998. A part of the tour will take place outdoors.

Sunday

6 May

Family Sunday: Build your own museum

13:00

Sunday

13 May

Rafael Moneo’s museum building: guided tour

12:00

Our building is celebrating its twentieth anniversary! Why not join a guided tour of Rafael Moneo’s design, inaugurated in 1998. A part of the tour will take place outdoors.

Sunday

13 May

Family Sunday: Build your own museum

13:00

Sunday

20 May

Rafael Moneo’s museum building: guided tour

12:00

Our building is celebrating its twentieth anniversary! Why not join a guided tour of Rafael Moneo’s design, inaugurated in 1998. A part of the tour will take place outdoors.

Sunday

20 May

Family Sunday: Build your own museum

13:00

Sunday

27 May

Rafael Moneo’s museum building: guided tour

12:00

Our building is celebrating its twentieth anniversary! Why not join a guided tour of Rafael Moneo’s design, inaugurated in 1998. A part of the tour will take place outdoors.

Sunday

27 May

Family Sunday: Build your own museum

13:00

Thursday

31 May

Nordic Report: Architecture and Design – the Nordic Way

12:00 Auditoriet

ArkDes in collaboration with Boverket, Form/Design Center and SUSTAINORDIC cordially invites you to a conference within the framework of the Swedish Presidency in the Nordic Council of Ministers 2018.

A Conference aiming to promote collaboration for sustainable design and architecture in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Moderator: Mark Isitt, architecture and design critic

RSVP by May 2. The conference is free of charge.

Program

11.30 Lunch will be served outside the lecture hall from 11.30
13.00 Welcome speech by Kieran Long, Director of ArkDes, The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
13.15 Swedish government on the proposition Designed Living Environment – a New Policy for Architecture, Form and Design
13.40 Monica von Schmalensee, Chairman, National Council for Sustainable Cities, on the National Council for Sustainable Cities and the broadened architectural assignment for Boverket, the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning
14.00 Showcases: presentations of various Nordic and Baltic innovative examples of sustainable architechture and design presented by its creators
15.20 Coffee and networking outside the lecture hall
15.45 Research panel: Three researchers give their views on the project presentations. Peter Vangsbo, Climate-KIC, Emma Holmqvist, Formas, and Luciane Aguiar Borges, Nordregio.
16.15 Key Note Speaker: Jakob Trollbäck, CEO at Trollback+Company
17.00 Krister Bringéus, ambassador at the Nordic Council of Ministers, on current issues concerning the council
17.15 Closing day 1
17.30 Early dinner
19.00 Grand opening of the exhibition Public Luxury at ArkDes

Friday June 1

08.30 Coffee and tea
09.00 Good morning by Mark Isitt
09.15 Key Note Speaker: Maria Lisogorskaya from Assemble architects
10.00 Coffe and tea break
10.30 Nordic-Baltic panel discussion
11.00 Information on excursions: Dansbana and Slakthusområdet
11.40 Conference closes
12.00 Lunch
13.00
1. Round table discussion (closed session for policy and decision makers)
2. Excursions: busses will depart from Exercisplan to Dansbana in Vårby Gård and Slakthusområdet
16.00 After work at Slakthusområdet