This session explores how we can utilize our diverse perspectives to address global and local challenges while respecting planetary boundaries. In this matter, we seek the principles of deep, transformative collaborations across diverse voices from different parts of the globe, enabling us to embody collective knowledge and explore alternative methods and practices of collaboration to conceptualize and build collective forms of inhabitation.
We ask: Is it possible to define local frameworks of collaboration that serve as indicators for establishing planetary alliances? How can our design processes incorporate diverse voices and contexts, both in structure and form, to support a range of identities and senses of place?
To broaden perspectives, we encourage contributions from three different areas of collective spatial practice, building upon our common interdisciplinary ground as architects and engineers:
• Historical Engagements: Practices that reexamine past approaches to social and ecological responsibility in the making of the built environment, drawing inspiration for addressing contemporary challenges.
• Hybrid Practices: Practitioners conducting research across regions, translating experiences and knowledge between different geographies, climates, and material traditions, who collaborate to create a civic building culture.
• Collective Movements: Those engaged directly with communities and local initiatives to advance social, spatial, and ecological justice, addressing issues such as climate justice, migration, resources use, housing, and labour.