Design for Partnerships for Change critically examines the unbalanced power dynamics that currently structure spatial relations, on an international and urban scale, as well as architecture’s potential to transform these. It seeks to challenge and reframe dominant spatial notions, such as ‘sustainability’, ‘community’, ‘development’ and ‘participation’, promoting new ways to communicate and practice architecture that support caring, democratic, healthier and regenerative futures.
Valuing alliances across all the stakeholders of the built environment, Design for Partnerships for Change insists on the need to recognize everyday practices and diverse realms of knowledge production and to reintroduce these into design thinking and discourse.
Read more about the UIA2023CPH Research Panel Design for Partnerships for Change here.