ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES

Dijana Vučinić has been invited to moderate the panel discussion in Big SEE Conference with topic Challenge: Private or public?

October 9, 2019, 16.30-19.00
City of Design, Dunajska cesta 13, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

PROGRAMME

16.30-19.00: Architectural Challenges and Responses
16.30-17.00: Welcome drink

17.00-18.00: Challenge: BIM from the perspective of collaboration among various professionals
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a process initiated by an architect who shall, during a design phase, work closely with his colleagues who are in charge of several other technical disciplines, with an aim to optimise architectural design and functionality. Many architects in the SEE region have been practising the BIM model for quite a few years now, but unfortunately this system of cooperation has not yet become sufficiently widespread, since many of those responsible for other technical areas – such as structural engineering, energy performance optimisation, project and cost optimisation, and facility management – are running late with the BIM process implementation.

Curator and moderator: Marko Dabrović; Studio 3LHD, Croatia
Debaters:
Dinko Žele; Proelemento,Croatia
Damjan Bradač; DBA<, Slovenia

18.00-19.00: Challenge: Private or public?
This ongoing debate has been greatly affected by history, politics and economy. As architects, we are always eager to give our feedback concerning public projects, and we are always ready to express our viewpoints and get involved within a public discourse. We frequently get engaged in competitions that often exhaust our office resources and lead into disputes with our financial advisers. Southeastern Europe is known for its many Public Tenders or “Design and Build” projects which often result in poorly designed and built public space, providing no options for a constructive debate or fair-play competitions. On the other hand, there are private projects, small or big, that may indeed be financially more justifiable, but they are certainly less likely to affect the more general picture of our urban environment.
All things considered, there is a question that still remains: “Where is the position of architects with regard to private and public projects?”

Curator and moderator: Dijana Vučinić; DVARP, Montenegro
Debaters:
Eric-Jan Pleijster; LOLA Landscape Architects, The Netherlands
Erik Jurišević; KONNTRA, Slovenia / North Macedonia / Croatia
Idis Turato; Arhitektonski biro Turato, Croatia