Ownership – Building – Architecture: A Housing Seminar at the Museum of Finnish Architecture on 18 Dec

Known as the designers and keepers of the iconic Kulttuurisauna (Cultural Sauna) on the Merihaka waterfront in Helsinki, Tuomas Toivonen and Nene Tsuboi also run an educational programme, New Academy, focusing on architecture and urbanism. The programme consists of open talks, lectures, studios, seminars and publications. On Tuesday 18 December, New Academy organises an afternoon seminar on housing, under the themes of ownership, building and architecture. This seminar is organised in collaboration with the Museum of Finnish Architecture and is a part of the ”Social Condenser” research project by New Academy and Dogma supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Programme

• Introductions
• Berlin and the New Communal? Creativity, Gentrification, Speculation Supergentrification Research Group (Maros Krivy, Leonard Ma and students of the Estonian Academy of Arts)
• Notes on Three Housing Projects in the Post-Welfare City Tuomas Toivonen, NOW for Architecture and Urbanism, Helsinki
• Another Appreciation: Labor Cooperatives and Real Estate Capital Leonard Ma, New Academy, Helsinki
• A Case Study in Helsinki
• Promised Land: Challenging Land Acquisition, Construction, Ownership and Housing Typologies Pier Vittorio Aureli & Martino Tattara, Dogma, Brussels
• A Case Study in London
• Discussion

Registration for the event by 17 Debember via email: academy@newacademy.fi