Ден Йоханссон

Urban resilience. An assets-based approach to urban development / Lecture Contemporary City
C:CA / Center of Contemporary Architecture

29 April < 2009

VHUTEMAS gallery
Rogdestvenka 11,
MARCHI

This lecture was about the processes around how innovation could be part of the strategy to make urban development resilient that is the capacity to deal with change for continued development. The author briefly went through examples, existing and possible, of how to integrate energy solutions in the city.

The projects from the tramway extension in Stockholm were represented; it said about the design and about the impact that it does how it reconnects Stockholm. The two examples from Malmo, Sweden and Lusaka, Zambia of how to use energy solutions in to make 0-energy solutions in be shown.

Dan Johansson / Architectural studio lab 71 (Stockholm, Sweden) is an architect educated at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, 1993. Currently he is working with development of integrated energy solutions in buildings, responsible for the overall design of the tramway extension in Stockholm, designing an extension for the Swedish embassy in Lusaka. Previous years he has been involved in projects related to infrastructure and urban development as well as private housing. Important part of Johansson’s work is teaching in architecture universities. Teaching takes place usually in form of longer courses in studios where the students investigate high urban density and improved quality of life. Issues of migration, health, shelter and education has been fields for exploration in the European and in African context.


C:CA / Center of Contemporary Architecture
With participation of VHUTEMAS gallery
Supported by Ford Foundation

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