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Rehearsing Change: Four positions on the Architecture of Coexistence

LAUFEN collateral event during ART Basel

21/05/2025

Laufen is hosting a recurring evening of thought-provoking conversations to coincide with Art Basel. At Architecture During Art symposium, LAUFEN brings together the curators of the German, Austrian and Swiss pavilions of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale – alongside designer and entrepreneur Yves Behar – for a conversation on how architecture and design can respond to climate stress, social inequality and institutional transformation.

How do we create spaces – physical, political, imagined – for coexistence in times of rupture? A dialogue on responsibility, imagination and collective agency.

In this public panel organized by LAUFEN, four perspectives come together to explore how architecture and design can serve as tools of care, critique, and cultural infrastructure.

18.30

REHEARSING CHANGE

PANEL DISCUSSION
moderated by TANJA HEUCHELE

Speakers

AMY PERKINS (Zurich)

is an architect active in design, education, writing, and editing. She is a founding member of Assemble Studio (London) and co-leads a second-year design course at EPF Lausanne. Together with Elena Chiavi, Kathrin Füglistaler, and Myriam Uzor, she forms part of the collective Annexe.

DANIELE SANTUCCI (Munich)

is an architect, professor and entrepreneur working at the intersection of data, climate and the built environment. He leads the Chair of Building Technology at RWTH Aachen and co-founded Climateflux GmbH, advising on climate adaptation. He was a visiting researcher at MIT’s Senseable City Lab and holds a PhD from TU Munich.

MICHAEL OBRIST (Vienna)

is an architect, Professor at TU Wien, where he leads the chair of Housing and Design, and founding partner of feld72. His work spans housing, education, and urban design. He co-founded the Centre for New Social Housing and has held visiting professorships in Milan, Linz, and beyond.

YVES BEHAR

is a designer, entrepreneur, and educator. He is the Founder and CEO of fuseproject, a San Francisco–based design and innovation studio that has developed products for brands such as Samsung, Herman Miller, and L’Oréal. As committed sustainability advocate, he also serves as a board member of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.

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Join us on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 6.30 pm
LAUFEN Forum
Wahlenstrasse 46,
4242 Laufen, Switzerland

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Bus shuttle will be provided from Basel.

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