How do we as young architects, designers and conservators respond to the challenges of restoring the future balance of our climate?

Our professions are partly accountable for the problems faced within climate change, so we must also be part of the solution. There is a need to develop new strategies for a complex reality - and how we use resources in more climate friendly manners adapted to circular thinking and economies.

KADK calls for action by inviting you to the KADK Youth Climate Summit where workshops, talks and debates will address challenges, solutions and actions within climate change. The summit is open to all - we summon the public to take part in this dialogue !

The KADK Youth Climate Summit is organized in collaboration with UN City Copenhagen and in conjunction with the C40 Mayors Summit in Copenhagen and the host city festival Live Like Tomorrow.

The summit is developed in partnership with the student initiative KADK x Klima working towards increasing awareness on sustainable architecture and design. Their aim is to develop a collective platform where climate can be debated and its challenges taken seriously. Therefore the summit is an ongoing invitation to fellow students to engage in the ‘climate discussion’ and together take part in the responsibility of educating themselves towards becoming sustainable architects and designers.

Program:
Thursday Oct 10th - 8.30-15.30
Friday Oct 11th - 8.30-15.30

All info and the detailed program will be presented and updated in the KADK Youth Climate Summit facebook event.

KADK // The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation //
Address: Philip de Langes Allé 10, 1435 København K
AUDITORIUM 2

DETAILED PROGRAM:
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10th OF OCTOBER
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Session 1: BEAUTY ~ how can aesthetics contribute to sustainable design and living?
Time: 09:10-10:40

Lead Moderator: Clara Halvorsen (Verdens Bedste Nyheder)
Youth Moderator: Sofie Piil Grau (Fashion student at KADK)

Speaker 1: Kristine Harper: “Aesthetic Nourishment”
Speaker 2: Rune Graulund (SDU): “Aesthetics and the Apocalypse: Decay, Degrowth, Dark Ecology”
Speaker 3: Ida Bencke (Laboratory for Aesthetics & Ecology) “Art, Ecology & Crisis”

Session 2: MATTER ~ how can we transform our understanding of materials to become more sustainable?  
Time: 11:00-12:30

Lead Moderator – Clara Halvorsen (Verdens Bedste Nyheder)
Youth Moderator – Sara Biscaia (Intern at UN City Copenhagen)

Speaker 1: TBA
Speaker 2: Aleksander Guldager Kongshaug (GXN): “Materials & Circular Principles”
Speaker 3: Harpa Birgisdottir (AAU): “Embodied carbon in buildings - an important climate change issue”

Session 3: Coffee, Conclusion & Workshop
Time: 13.30-15.30

Collection of material, development of product and discussion on the days sessions

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11th OF OCTOBER
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Session 4: PROTECTION ~ how can we design to shelter and cover our bodies in a climatically responsible way?
Time: 09:10-10:40

Lead Moderator – Sophie Jo Rytter (Verdens Bedste Nyheder)
Youth Moderator – Anna-Julia Plichta 

Speaker 1: Tom Svilans (CITA): “Strategies for the digital wood value chain”
Speaker 2: Dana Thomas (Fashion Journalist): “Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes”
Speaker 3: Lars Keller (EcoCocon): “Building for tomorrow is possible today”

Session 5: THOUGHT ~ how can we change the habits of people & identify the actions necessary to exist in a more conscious way? 
Time: 11:00-12:30 

Lead Moderator – Sophie Jo Rytter (Verdens Bedste Nyheder)
Youth Moderator – Agnes Vizsuly (Intern at UN City Copenhagen)

Speaker 1: Liselotte Lyngsø (Future Navigator): “Societal transformations and feedback crisis impacting cities and sustainability”
Speaker 2: Mariko Takedomi Karlsson (Lund University): "Empowerment through green consumption: the paradox of feminism and sustainability in the fashion world”
Speaker 3: Mikkel Bolt (KU): “Repairing the World (and Ending Capitalism)”

Session 6: Coffee, Conclusion & Workshop
Time: 13.30-15.00

Collection of material, development of product and discussion on the days sessions

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* Note: Program subject to modification