Architectural Democracy

October 30, 2024
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Helsinki built its 1st skyscraper but wants to be carbon free by 2035, Dubai imports all its sand from Australia to build its skyscrapers, the concrete for your house starts to decay after 30 years, and it has been a democracy, not a dictatorship, who has just built the biggest statue ever of a man, in India.

The kind of people we want to be is the kind of cities we should be designing for. So who decides about that and our future? Is this a science? For whom are we designing the city? Who owns my city? 

Join us in the Architectural Democracy podcast, where we will take a critical look at these matters so that you can re-discover your own city and be a real part of it.

Architectural Democracy is a monthly podcast hosted by Pedro Aibéo with rotating guests, produced and airing at the Helsinki Open Waves, at Caisa, in Helsinki, Finland. 

Henrik Ilvesmäki heads the architecture and consulting agency Studio Ilvesmäki and functions as partner and brand strategist in a sustainability focused startup company based in the US. He graduated as an architect from Aalto University and has since completed two post-professional master’s degrees in advanced architectural design and design thinking at Harvard University. Ilvesmäki works as an architect on multiple building projects and consults companies on the development of architectural trends. In addition to this, he teaches design thinking at Aalto University.


Credits

Producers and hosts: Pedro Aibéo and Mark Linder
Guest: Henrik Ilvesmäki
Sound recording and editing: Bailey Polkinghorne

*The audio piece was recorded and edited at the Helsinki Open Waves performance & recording room located at Caisa.

**The views expressed in this audio piece and texts are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the view of Helsinki Open Waves.  

***If you have any feedback regarding the content of the podcast, please contact us via helsinkiopenwaves@gmail.com

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