Search

Tirana Design Week 2021: Health & Wellbeing in the Post-Pandemic City

#Exhibition, Conference, Workshops
27 Sep - 10 Oct 2021
Tirana Architecture / Design Week (TA/DW), Tirana, AL
POLIS University, Tirana, Albania

Workshops, open lectures, an international conference with sessions of debates and open ateliers, and other public events will form the agora of TDW 2021, aiming at producing knowledge, tentative answers and ideas on how the society could move ahead towards healthy spaces and wellbeing in the post-pandemic city.

During the year 2020, millions of people around the world had to quarantine, self-isolate, and apply physical and social distancing. Our lives, our family and work have drastically shifted into what many are increasingly calling the “new normal. People work, study, shop and even get health advice remotely. Yet, not everyone enjoys suitable spaces for conducting virtual lives. While much of the public attention has been given to medical experts and government guidelines; de facto, it is clear that the way we have designed and planned so far our homes and cities has been shaping how we were facing the pandemic at an individual and social level.

At TDW 2021, we would like to discuss on the post-COVID city and the role that designers, architects and planners should play in the three strands, education, research and the profession. To have a real impact in this context we need to change urgently the mindset, as students, educators, researchers and professionals, to be forthcoming and embrace values beyond utilitarian, to be actors in positively transforming society and habitat.

Workshops, open lectures, an international conference with sessions of debates and open ateliers, and other public events will form the agora of TDW 2021, aiming at producing knowledge, tentative answers and ideas on how the society could move ahead towards healthy spaces and wellbeing in the post-pandemic city.

Curators: Dr. Besnik Aliaj I Dr. Rudina Toto I Dr. Valerio Perna I Dr. Sonia Jojic I Dr. Ledian Bregasi


Image credits: @captvart

Tirana Design Week


Enter ROOM 19

Enter ROOM Invisible Landscape  

Enter ROOM The caring city

Enter ROOM Back to Nature

Enter ROOM OASI

Enter ROOM Stage for the City

Related

Invisible Landscape

UN-Office(Uncertainty Network Office)

The project examines the greenhouse urbanization and photosynthetic colonization to describe the process that human displace, domesticate, and reproduce nature and territories in Anthropocene and Capitalocene.

#Environment

The caring city

Col·lectiu Punt 6

Rethinking the city from a feminist and care perspective means no longer creating spaces on the basis of production rationales that are socially and politically restrictive and, instead, starting to think about environments that place a greater emphasis on the people who use them.

#Planning

BACK TO NATURE

PUZZLE

The “Machines for living” will turn into “Green oasis for living and working” and the “collective living” will turn into a “semi-public space”.

#Planning

OASI

OASI

Renaturalization of a heritage area with natural logics that enables fluvial resilience of the territory along time.

#Environment

Stage for the City

Monika Marinova

An approach for urban regeneration in post-industrial towns, the project investigates integration between institutions and society, reconciling civic and industrial, framing a new democratic urban centre.

#Planning