Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar 2016 “The city of the rich and the city of the poor”

September 27th, 2016
9am-7:30pm

Maison de la Paix,
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2,
Geneva

The Fondation Braillard Architectes (FBA) organises together with the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U)of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID) the Working Seminar Bernardo Secchi (1934-2014, a leading European intellectual and urbanist). The Seminar is organized in the framework of The Eco-Century Project® of the FBA, in conjunction with the World Day of Habitat (October 6th) and a few weeks from Habitat III (Quito, October 17-20). It aims to foster dialogue between scholars, PhD students, professionals and stakeholders on the relations between social equality/inequality, ecological sustainability and the spatial attributes of the urban areas, according to three questions:

• Sustainable and inclusive economy: how does its implementation interact with the  built realm?
• Environmentally responsible government: how can architectural and urban space become one of its strategic fields of exercise?
• Urban Age and planetary equilibrium: how can we orient emerging architectural, urban and landscape strategies for an innovative management of resources?

The Scientific Committee:

• Panos Mantziaras, Fondation Braillard Architectes
• Isabelle Milbert, Graduate Institute
• Paola Viganò, EPFL