reSITE Will Report from Venice Biennale 2021: How Will We Live Together?
Beginning May 22nd and running through November 21st, the biennale invites the public to consider how we will live together. Answers have poured in from 46 countries, with growing representation hailing from all corners of the globe.
Ten Talks + Podcasts on Greening Our Cities for Earth Day
How can we harmonize our built environment with nature? These ten talks and podcasts from reSITE speakers and guests explore how our infrastructures, our urban landscapes, and our communities need not be in opposition with the natural world. Image courtesy of Studio Precht.
The Women Shaping Cities: Who to Follow, What to Read, Watch and Listen to
On the occasion of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we’ve compiled a selection of sources what to read, watch, listen to, or follow to amplify the female voices acting to improve the built environment.
Grow your CV with reSITE
reSITE is looking for motivated and curious interns, offering invaluable professional experience in media, communications, marketing and business development centered on the intersection of architecture, design, and city-making. Apply now!
Four Talks on Sound: the Fourth Dimension of Architecture
We interviewed architects, artists, and sound engineers on their practices as they relate and consider this often overlooked dimension of architecture for a special film series, RESONATE Talking Sound + Space from the reSITE RESONATE Thinking Sound + Space Conference which took place at Lisbon's MAAT Museum.
10 Bold Visions from Design and the City 2020
Our favorite quotes and ideas from our Design and the City guests seem to take design and its application, examining it from all angles—from mobility and smart cities to giving it a higher purpose and advocating for more diverse input—all to reframe how we can apply it to shape our built environments to better serve all those who inhabit them.
Soundscapes of 2020
2020, a year of cancelled concerts, festivals that didn't happen and concert halls that remained silent. A year that confined singers, musicians and performers in their homes, studios and backyards, making the digital space their only point of contact with their fans.
reSITE Skipped for 2020, But There Will Be a Next Time!
COVID-19 has changed everyone's plans, and we are no exception. We’ve deliberated on how to continue connecting city-makers in the midst of a pandemic, and ultimately made the hard decision to fore-go our annual event this year.
Design and the City is Back!
Throughout 2020, many thoughts and questions have arisen in the cities close to our hearts. We’d like to discuss what challenges define the discourse today. In the new season of reSITE’s podcast, Design and the City, we will revisit all aspects of future-proof city-making.
Enrique Peñalosa on the Democracy of Sidewalks and Bike Lanes
The former mayor of Bogota, discusses why equity begins with well-planned public spaces, making the case that their democratization is based on one simple urban feature: sidewalks. Photo courtesy of Michael Schmid
Leona Lynen on Planning Incomplete Cities
Leona Lynen sets a path for a publicly-planned revitalization of Berlin’s Haus der Statistik in the wake of a unique opportunity for Berliners to partner with their government.
Race, Space, and Urban Transformation
With urban spaces under the control of protests against police brutality, questions of who gets to utilize a space and who feels comfortable in a space are at the forefront of international attention. Spaces do not randomly appear, and are shaped by their designers, begging the question of the role of urban designers and architects in perpetuating racial injustice.
Eight Talks on Using Design to Solve Urban Inequalities
Can design be used to solve urban inequalities? Hear eight talks from reSITE speakers with examples on how we can use the built environment as a tool for social impact.
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reSITE The Best Urbanist Ideas + Minds
Over one thousand visitors attended reSITE 2017: In/visible City on June 22-23 in Prague. Architects, municipal leaders, city planners and investors in the audience were blown away by lectures from the universally heralded Kazuyo Sejima from SANAA, Deputy Mayor of Paris Jean-Louis Missika, Winy Maas from the envy of the architecture world, and many more.
Jean-Louis Missika on Reinventing Paris
Deputy Mayor of Paris, Jean-Louis Missika, explains the project of Réinventer Paris and its focus on updating and developing the city’s future in a more innovative and inclusive manner, putting a precedent on sustainability over profit. With 23 sites open for redevelopment proposals, the city has welcomed winning projects selected based on the innovativeness and adaptability.
Alfredo Brillembourg on How We Can Tackle Urban Poverty
Alfredo Brillembourg, founding partner of Urban-Think Tank in Zurich, discusses incomplete urbanization and service deprivation in poor city areas and what can be done to tackle urban poverty.
How a City Can Have Control Over its Destiny | Urban Panel
Panel members Henry Foy, Carl Weisbrod, Omar Koleilat, Pavel Streblov, Ivan Duškov, and Jarmir Hainc discuss city planning for the future. They focus on project development and management of urban design and city planning as well as the struggles associated with building in a metropolitan area.
