Architectural Democracy
TALKS & WORKSHOPS on "ARCHITECTURAL DEMOCRACY"
LECTURE TYPE 1:
The Architectural Democracy's Matrix (45 min)
This lecture will focus on the Architectural Democracy's proposed framework to explore the relationships between architecture and democracy. The proposed matrix creates common ground for diverse stakeholders to better understand the complexity of cities, and thus to participate more actively in it. It is argued that this process provides a structured tool to evaluate the quality of both architecture and democracy. It contextualizes the concept of ‘Architectural Democracy’ and gives the possibility to gather data from both citizens and experts, and to later develop it into a quantifiable set of metrics.
LECTURE TYPE 2:
Architectural Democracy's works: from gamification to the social responsability of architecture (45 min)
This lecture will give an overview of the works of Architectural Democracy. From its research matrix, Gamified Cohousing, urban planning games with the MIT and Legos, the Decisions City with the Venice Biennale, the Architecture By Kids with the Qatar Foundation, etc.
LECTURE TYPE 3:
Architectural Democracy's "Gamified Cohousing" (45 min)
This lecture will focus on the Spin-off work of Architectural Democracy entitled Gamified Cohousing. Showcasing the pilot project, the 5-step method and current ongoing projects.
WORKSHOP TYPE 1:
The Architectural Democracy's Matrix Workshop (3 hours)
Extended version of lecture type 1 with the formation of groups
WORKSHOP TYPE 2:
Gamified Cohousing Workshop (3 hours)
Extended version of lecture type 2 with the formation of groups, designing a gamified cohousing out of any proposed house or group of houses
These workshops have been very popular in China.
WORKSHOP TYPE 3:
Architecture By Kids (3 hours)
Designing an imaginary city with kids as architects.
GENERAL DETAILS:
KEYWORDS
architecture, democracy, digitization, open systems, smart city, right to the city, parametrization, gamification, cohousing
LECTURER'S BIO
Pedro Aibéo is a Design Architect (M.Sc., Dipl. Ing., TU Darmstadt, Germany) and Civil Engineer (M.Sc., Licenciatura, FEUP, Porto) with over 50 buildings design and built in 18 countries, currently CEO of the Gamified Cohousing Oy. He is a Kone Foundation Research Fellow at Aalto University, Finland, a Visiting Associate Professor at UNAM University, Mexico, and a Visiting Researcher at Wuhan University of Technology in China. He is a Deputy Member of the Urban Planning Department of the City of Lohja. His work is multidisciplinary ranging from arts, science, design and politics.
LOCATION REQUIREMENTS
Formal or informal location, with a projector. No maximum number of attendees. Ability to make photocopies for attendees to fill in paper forms.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All are welcome
LANGUAGES
These talks can be held in English, German, Portuguese, French or Spanish
FAQs:
WHAT WILL THE ATTENDEE BENEFIT FROM THIS LECTURE?
Attending this lecture or workshop will give you a deeper insight on the relationship between architecture and politics. The everyday life of the practice of architecture by Pedro Aibéo, who has built and designed over 50 building worldwide and the implications with politics.
WHAT IS THE NOVELTY OF THIS TOPIC?
This is part of an ongoing Doctoral research work, and as any PhD, its claims are new, so attending this lecture will give you a completely new take on some pressing societal issues.
CAN THIS TOPIC AND LECTURES FOSTER PARTNERSHIPS?
These lectures are part not only of a PhD Research but already of a larger group of professionals who have been implementing on field some new ideas. For example in opening the facades of buildings or making low cost 3D of our homes for open source usage.
We are thus most happy to pursue partnerships at both research and industry level and return to give further talks on this and related matters.
CONTACT
Pedro Aibéo
What people say
Media artist / Architect
Jaakko Pesonen
Pedro Aibéo’s project on Architectural Democracy is ground breaking. Mr. Aibéo has the experience to take this research to levels that will prove useful for others. His practice in architecture and art projects gives him an advantage many architects don’t have.
April 2015
Pedro Aibéo's doctoral research has been supported by a hands-on parallel practice based approach with several other international institutions. Since 2015, several other Universities have required Mr. Aibéo’s presence to lecture around the topics of “Architectural Democracy”.
March 2015
Elias Wahlström
Glasgow School of Art
I found it one of the most valuable guest lectures I've been to in GSA so far.
February 2018
Architect
Shashank Pandey
Thanks for the guest lecture in Metropolia university. We got to know new insights from your lecture. The interaction was highly engaging and interesting.
February 2018
“It shows a matured, critical and higher level thinking of the problem”
27th August 2014
Prof. Lauri Koskela
University of Huddersfield
“a bold and interesting topic!”
02.09.2014
Dates
Finnish Embassy's Residency in Bogota, Colombia
Oct. 25th 2022
Speaker on Architectural Democracy
World Digital Built Environment Conference, Estonia
Sept. 29th 2022
Speaker on Decisions City
Lusíada University of Luanda, Angola
March 4th - 6th 2022
Speaker on Architectural Democracy
Venice Biennale
2021
Moderator of Saskia Sassen and John Keane debate on "Can Architecture Hack Democracy?"
World of Digital Built Environment WDBE 2021
2021
Speaker on Architectural Democracy
Media Architecture Biennale 2020, Holland
2021
Speaker on Architectural Democracy
Poland
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
2020.10.19
Keynote Speaker in Warsaw, Poland at the IF – Social Design for Sustainable Cities conference
Finland
Talk to Toyota
2020.01.22
Speaker and discussion on Architectural Democracy with Toyota representatives for innovation
Espoo
Aalto University
2019.10.23
Guest Speaker on Architectural Democracy, Urban Dots and Gamified Cohousing at the
Grand opening of the new Aalto Living+ lab
Espoo
2019.09.27
Speaker on the Urban Dots, a new urban planning game based on the Architectural Democracy research
at the International people-driven city conference
VIDEO HERE
Shanghai
2019.07.23
Workshops on Architectural Democracy at the U-Motion Ideas Camp in Shanghai, China
Kathmandu, Nepal
2019.07.16
Keynote Speaker on Architectural Democracy at Khowpa Engineering College
Helsinki
2019.05.18
Workshop on Architectural Democracy in Helsinki at Third Space at the "Encouraging Participatory Activities by Artistic Public Practice"
Bangalore
2019.03.15
Workshop on Architectural Democracy in Bangalore at the Acharya's NRV School of Architecture - Acharya Institutes
Pune
2019.03.09
Invited Speaker on Architectural Democracy in Pune, India, at the Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College Of Architecture For Women
Wuhan, China
2018.11.01
Workshop on Architectural Democracy at the Wuhan University of Technology, China
Shanghai
2018.10.29
Workshop on Architectural Democracy at the Tongji University
Helsinki
2018.06.08
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the Aalto BIM Summer School
Palestine
2018.05.15
Series of lectures by P. Aibéo in Palestine (May 9th - May 15th)
London
2018.02.26
Lecture cancelled in solidarity to the strike against the pension cuts to university lectures.
Glasgow
2018.02.19
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the Glasgow School of Arts
Espoo
2018.02.05
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the 3rd "Building Design and Construction" seminar at Aalto University, on Architectural Democracy, 15:00
Nijmegen
2017.07.15
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the Anarchist group of Nijmegen, Holland, on "Architecture and Politics"
A-ryhmä Kupoli Finland
2017.05.20
Lecture by P. Aibéo at "The disturbance Lectures" of on "Architectural Democracy"
University of Coimbra
2016.12
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra, Portugal, December, on "Architectural Democracy"
Ströer Think Tank, Hamburg
23rd November 2016
Lecture by P. Aibéo, "Demokratisierung von Städten durch Technologien"
FAUP (Architecture University) in Porto
14th October 2016
Lecture by P. Aibéo on Architectural Democracy at the "Jornada DocGraf16"
Espoo, Finland
2015
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the 3d city model hackathon
"Aula Magna" at CIDI, UNAM, Mexico
2015
Lecture by P. Aibéo on "Architectural Democracy"
Wuhan University of Technology, Department of Environmental Design
2015
Lecture by P. Aibéo on "The concept of architectural democracy and its relevance on environmental impact"
Business School : Aalto Service Factory Networking Evening
2014
On Architectural Democracy
Aalto University in Finland
2013
Lecture on Multiparticipatory Research
TU Tallinn
2013
Lecture by P. Aibéo on Architectural Democracy
Catedra Europa in Universid Del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
Oct. 18th-20th 2022
Keynote Speaker on Architectural Democracy
Metropolia University, Helsinki
May 3rd 2022
Speaker on Gamified Cohousing
New European Bauhaus Goes Digital
2021 10 28
Speaker on Architectural Democracy
BRICK School of Architecture, India
25th September 2021
Keynote Speaker at the ‘Blurred Boundaries: In Search of an Identity’ conference
Finland
Tampere University
2021.03.08
Keynote Speaker in Tampere, Finland
at the Urban Planning symposium, on the topics of "Games and algorithmic urbanism and urban utopias" and "Appropriating the city and changing views to nature"
Russia
State Museum of Architecture
2020.01.31
Guest Speaker on Architectural Democracy in Moscow at the symposium of "Public Architecture - Future For Europe"
Qatar
WISE Summit
2019.11.19
Speaker and workshop leader on a series of workshops on Architectural Democracy, Nov 19-21,
Shanghai
Tongji University
2019.10.09
Keynote Speaker on Architectural Democracy and Gamified Cohousing at the
Design Week of the Tongi University
Helsinki
2019.08.07
Keynote Speaker on Architectural Democracy at the 25th Urban Planning and Design Summer School, Helsinki
Kathmandu, Nepal
2019.07.16
Keynote Speaker on Architectural Democracy at Nepal Engineering College
Helsinki
2019.05.28
Keynote Speaker on Architectural Democracy at the Extending Design Realities Conference
full talk here
Bangalore
2019.03.16
Workshop on Architectural Democracy in Bangalore at the Ramaiah School of Architecture
Mumbai
2019.03.13
Invited Speaker on Architectural Democracy in Mumbai, India, at the KRVIA
Peniche
2018.11.03
Talk by P. Aibéo in Peniche, Portugal at TED talks
Watch it here
Shanghai
2018.10.30
Workshop on Architectural Democracy at the Tongji University
Espoo, Finland
2018.10.18
Workshop on Architectural Democracy at the Aalto University
Helsinki
2018.05.18
Talk by Pedro Aibéo on the first Aalto Sustainability Day, Between 13–15. Finland
Berlin
2018.04.25
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the
HTW Berlin, 10:00 am
Edinburgh
2018.02.20
Lecture by P. Aibéo at The Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Delft
2018.02.15
Lecture at TU Delft, Dpt. of Architecture, Design as Politics, on Architectural Democracy
Helsinki, Metropolia
2018.01.26
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, at 12:00
Espoo, Aalto
2017.06.02
Lecture by P. Aibéo at the 2017 Aalto BIM Summer School, Espoo
Porto, FAUP
2016.10.14
Workshop on 3D interactive Models from Photos
Mexico, UNAM
June 2016
on DIY 3D Interactive Models from Photos
FCUC in Coimbra
17th October 2016
Lecture by P. Aibéo on Architectural Democracy
UNAM University in Mexico
June 2016
Lecture by P. Aibéo on "3D interactive models from Photos"
LeSPACE in Helsinki
2015
Workshop on "3D interactive models from Photos"
Wuhan University of Technology, China
2015
Lecture by P. Aibéo on "Social adaptive complex systems"
Aalto University, department of Architecture
2015
Lecture by P. Aibéo on "Architecture, sustainability and democracy"
IOT Sprint Review in Finland
2013
Lecture by P. Aibéo on Architectural Democracy