Architektūros fondas is organising an international three-day symposium on circular design, featuring a conference and an accompanying art programme. By linking critical discourse in urbanism and architecture with artistic practices, the symposium What Goes Around Comes Around approaches circular design not only as a strategy for the reuse of spaces and materials, but also as a way to rethink value, labour, energy and continuity over time.

The conference Building with Time taking place this Friday and can also be followed online here.

Building with Time Conference

Contemporary architecture increasingly operates under conditions shaped by investment-driven development and rapidly changing lifestyles. In this context, the capacity to transform the urbanised environment becomes critically important. Yet transformation itself can take many different forms – from careful maintenance and adaptive reuse to partial modifications or complete reconstruction.

The conference, taking place at the National Gallery of Art, will invite urbanists, architects, researchers and cultural practitioners to consider architecture as a practice of time, in which inherited conditions, present concerns and future-oriented perspectives intersect.

Through lectures, discussions and case studies, the programme will explore practices in which time becomes a fundamental element of design. It will address work with existing structures, regenerative approaches, and efforts to restore the relationship between architecture, territory and society.

Participants include: Saskia van Stein, Paola Viganò, Kristiaan Borret, Nicholas Duxbury Ransome (Lendager), Kateryna Lopatiuk, Alice Babini (Babini Geysen Architects), Fabian Lauener (TEN Studio), Varvara Yagnysheva (Co-HATY) and Jakob Rabe (pihlmann architects).

Curators: Martynas Germanavičius, Eglė Kliučinskaitė, Paulius Kliučininkas