Building capacity – Eva Pfannes & Sylvain Hartenberg, Ooze

Chalmers School of Architecture Public Lecture Autumn Series 2023 |  Architecture in the Anthropocene

The autumn lecture series is focusing on the human activity on the natural environment and how a range of practices addresses this on a rage of scales from hands-on community projects to large scale territorial projects addressing the implementation and critique on policy related to the act of building in the age of the Anthropocene.

Presenting:

Ooze – Eva Pfannes & Sylvain Hartenberg: "Building Capacity"

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Abstract:

After a long era of unprecedented economic growth generating an over-expansion of build space, it now might still be in time to protect and reconstruct nature, in other words, to dedicate oneself fully and as a matter of urgency to the production of nature as a long-term objective. The talk will explore and illustrate, through examples of OOZE’s work, how understanding and deploying natural processes could be a methodology and strategy to overcome to heal and repair our immediate and wider environment.

Short Bio:

Eva Pfannes & Sylvain Hartenberg are the co-founders of OOZE, an international design practice with projects in Europe, India and Brazil based in Rotterdam. Working across scales, from regional strategies to architecture and research, OOZE is combining an elaborate understanding of natural, ecological processes, with technological expertise and deep insights in to the social-cultural behaviour of users of the built environment. The cyclic closed-loop processes found in nature are the foundation for each intervention and integrate the human scale within a comprehensive urban strategy.

OOZE is the team lead for the City of 1000 Tanks project in Chennai, part of the global Water as Leverage program of the Dutch Government. Eva was co-curator of the ninth edition of the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (IABR), DOWN TO EARTH (2020 - 2021) and lead designer of the IABR–Atelier Rotterdam III, working on a Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP) to decarbonize a local neighbourhood. Their expertise covers urban, participatory and climate resilience strategies including Nature Based Solutions and developing multi system models with an interdisciplinary team.

OOZE's work was exhibited in the Venice Biennial in 2021, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial and the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and widely published, including DOMUS, AJ and The Guardian. Awards include the 2017 Landscape Institute Award UK for ‘Best Design for Temporary Landscape’ and the LafargeHolcim Bronze Award for Latin America 2017.