INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Collaboration
The Pittsburgh Platform has initiated and established various International Collaborations.
We believe that collaboration will enable us to share knowledge to learn and improve practice better and faster, to foster a more holistic approach, establish new partnerships and drive creativity and innovation.
The most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together. - description SXSW festival
International Conversations
in collaboration with the AIA Pittsburgh
A new conversation series on environmental health equity (the equal right for everyone to be able to live in a healthy environment) through the lens of architecture and urban design. This 3-part series - May 23, June 7, and June 20 - provide insights and discuss the power of architecture and urban design to improve environmental health. Architects and designers from Pittsburgh and Stockholm, Sweden will discuss and compare experiences from their cities.
The Pittsburgh International Conversations, hosted by AIA Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Platform, feature hour-long discussions and presentations between architects and urban designers. Speakers will introduce themselves and their work in a shortened PechaKucha-style presentation, followed by an open conversation among the participants.
Session 1: Health Equity: Architecture and the Value of Design
In the first in the series of conversations, we take a deeper look into environmental health equity and the value of architecture and design. The conversation focuses on what role architectureand urban design have in achieving environmental health and well-being, the responsibility of architects and urban planners to address and ensure environmental health, which “tools” and possibilities are available, and how to communicate and argue the value of design in achieving environmental health.
Participants:
Pittsburgh:
Jeff Murray, Cannon Design
Amanda Markovic, GBBN
Stockholm:
Fredrik Hansson, Creative Director and Partner Okidoki Arkitekter
Anna Sunnerö, founder Sunnerö Architects
Moderator:
Michelle Fanzo, Executive Director, AIA Pittsburgh
Session 2: Health Equity: Public Space and the Built Environment
In this conversation our guests discussed how architecture, urban design and landscape architecture can improve public health and well-being, designing spaces that shape experience. This conversation highlights specific design solutions that create a healthy living environment and promote ahealthy lifestyle and reflects on valuable lessons learned between Pittsburgh and Stockholm.
Participants:
Pittsburgh:
Brent Houck, PWWG
Nina Chase, Merrit Chase
Stockholm:
Linda Pettersson, Urbio
Johanna Elgström, Helsingborg
Moderator:
Sander Schuur, founder and CPO HOMR
Session 3: Health Equity: Community Engagement and the Power of Education
This conversation addressed the possibility of improving well-being through empowering communities and individuals to impact their own life, being the freedom to make your own decisions. The conversation placed focus specifically on education as a tool to establish general understanding of architecture and urban design to strengthen overall understanding and how to lead to community engagement and participation.
Participants:
Pittsburgh:
Erica Cochran Hameen, Associate AIA
Robert Tuñón, AIA
Stockholm:
Rebecca Rubin, Architect & Sustainability Director at Sveafastigheter
Carolina Wikström, Architect Asante
Moderator:
Alec Rieger, NextGen Pittsburgh
STHLMNYC | PGHPLT
A collaboration between the Pittsburgh Platform and STHLMNYC.
STHLMNYC is a three-day gathering around design, technology, and the arts.
Cities are beautiful and beautifully complex. They form the canvas for culture and life as much as culture and life in their turn shape our cities. Design is the moderator and the rhythm in this elegant dance, guiding our cities to be a better place for all.
STHLMNYC hosted its first event in 2011, bringing together a diversity of participants around a wide variety of topics. The gathering is a common ground for open conversations promoting inspiration, professional development, and networking opportunities.
Partner & Sponsorship
STHLMNYC is actively looking for partners and sponsors, being foundations, organizations, companies, cities, regions, and other possible stakeholders.
more information coming soon