Date 12-13.06.2023

Location CUHK School of Architecture; Zoom

The Africa Lab Sustainable Conditions Symposium aims to connect like-minded academics, professionals and business people through community sustainable projects. This two-day event will explore sustainability through various lenses: Social, Cultural, Environmental, Health, Public and Educational. The focus will be Africa, a continent where new forms of sustainable thinking can radically improve living conditions.

By presenting existing and potential projects the symposium aims to generate synergies between experts from different fields, with the purpose to establish an Africa Lab network of collaborators, a platform where knowledge and opportunities are shared, with the ambition to define an Africa Lab Charter.

Participants will present projects, completed and potential, highlighting ideas that question and challenge our notion of sustainability. Resources, traditions, authenticity, community, human energy… the sustainable lexicon belongs to the people, in this light - how can design facilitate more sustainable living? The Sustainable Condition Symposium is a public event, open to anybody interested in exploring issues of Sustainability. We welcome all to register and join the event in person and online.

Speakers:

• Belpietro, Luca (Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust)
• Chong, Jose (Global Public Space, UN-Habitat)
• Conway, Shaun (IXO, The Internet of Impact)
• Ferretto, Peter Winston (Condition_Lab / School of Architecture, CUHK)
• Kimeu, Musau (Department of Architecture & Building Science, Nairobi University)
• Lam, Hon Ming (School of Life Sciences, CUHK)
• Lam, Tat (School of Architecture, CUHK)
• Li, Yigang (UN-Habitat)
• Ma, Maggie (DOMAT / School of Architecture, CUHK)
• Marafa, Lawal M. (Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK)
• Noero, Jo (Noero Architects)
• Rossini, Francesco (School of Architecture, CUHK)
• Schroder, Ingrid (Architectural Association)
• Shinohara, Hiroyuki (School of Architecture, CUHK)
• Soares, Nuno (University of Saint Joseph, Macao)
• Tanui, Gloria (Kounkuey Design Initiative)
• Tieben, Hendrik (School of Architecture, CUHK)
• Van Ameijde, Jeroen (School of Architecture, CUHK)
• Wool, Pia-Sophie (Birmingham Community Healthcare, NHS Foundation Trust)
• Xu, Liang Leon (School of Architecture, CUHK)
• Zhu, Jingxiang (School of Architecture, CUHK)

DAY 1

09:15-10:00 Introduction

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 919 4092 0121, Passcode: 470406)

10:00-11:20 Condition Social

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 919 4092 0121, Passcode: 470406)

11:30-13:10 Condition Health

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 935 7692 5565, Passcode: 392823)

14:10-15:30 Condition Public

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 915 3672 6125, Passcode: 765103)

15:40-17:00 Condition Education

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 977 4889 2034, Passcode: 358895)

17:30-18:30 Keynote Speech by Jo Noero

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 985 1311 2509, Passcode: 461212)

DAY 2

10:00-11:40 Condition Environment

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 987 2890 3690, Passcode: 979886)

11:50-13:10 Condition Culture

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 929 1536 2371, Passcode: 795923)

14:00-15:30 Design Competition Presentation

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 977 4599 2396, Passcode: 047298)

16:00-17:00 Round Table Discussion

(Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 977 4599 2396, Passcode: 047298)