The Forest of Venice in Rome

The Forest of Venice exhibition for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 will be shown in Rome at Casa dell’Architettura, inaugurated with a seminar about timber as a sustainable material for the future.
The exhibition, by international press named one of the most interesting projects at the Architecture Biennale last year, is initiated and produced by Kjellander Sjöberg together with Folkhem, supported by The Swedish Institute.

The points of departure for The Forest of Venice are the climate change and rising sea levels threatening coastal regions worldwide, what new urban solutions and strategies we face today and the possibilities of wood as a renewable material. The discussion continues – now with The Forest of Venice in Rome.

The exhibition and seminar are a collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in Rome and Swedish Wood. The vernissage will be opened by Alf Karlsson, state secretary to Peter Eriksson minister of housing and digitalization.

Exhibition: 26 May- 8 June 2017
Inauguration: Friday 26 May at 19:25
Place: Casa dell’Architettura, Piazza Manfredo Fanti 47, Rome

Photo: Adam Mørk

KS at the seminar Urban Dynamics – Scandinavian influence in Czechia

Ola Kjellander is invited as a guest speaker to a conference about sustainable cities at NEXT Institute in Brno in Czechia, where he will give an insight into the Swedish approach to planning sustainable districts and urban mobility principles. After the conference, there will be a public lecture on how we program our neighborhoods and what influences people’s movements.
The events are a part of the NEXT Institute’s research track Urban Dynamics which explores the mechanisms and strategies of urban mobility.

Conference:
Time: Friday May 5 at 13:00
Place: The Distillery, Pekarska 76, Brno, Czechia

Public lecture:
Time: Friday May 5 at 17:00
Place: Moravian Gallery, Governor’s Palace, Moravske namesti 1a, Brno, Czechia