→ apr 13 '25
Lecture “Planning in Scenarios — Designing for an Uncertain Future”
Lviv, Lviv Mobility Center, 24 Bandera StreetWhat is architecture in a world that is constantly changing? How can design and imagination help shape our cities — and our future?
These questions will be addressed by Saskia van Stein, Artistic Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and a curator working at the intersection of architecture, culture, and social change.
She will be joined by Gerjan Streng, an architect working across urbanism, energy, and ecology — from large-scale strategies to solar parks and new residential districts.
The lecture is part of the Urban Dialogues exhibition, which runs until June 13.
These questions will be addressed by Saskia van Stein, Artistic Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and a curator working at the intersection of architecture, culture, and social change.
She will be joined by Gerjan Streng, an architect working across urbanism, energy, and ecology — from large-scale strategies to solar parks and new residential districts.
The lecture is part of the Urban Dialogues exhibition, which runs until June 13.
about the lecture
During the event, a Ukrainian facilitator will help contextualize the Dutch experience within Ukrainian realities and support a dialogue with the audience.
Date: April 13
Time: 12:00
Urban Mobility Center, Lviv
Entry by registration only! Spots are limited, registration is mandatory.
This project is initiated by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine and organised by UNUN, IABR, College Van Rijksadviseurs, Vereniging Deltametropool, Urbanreforms, Urban Mobility Center
Date: April 13
Time: 12:00
Urban Mobility Center, Lviv
Entry by registration only! Spots are limited, registration is mandatory.
This project is initiated by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine and organised by UNUN, IABR, College Van Rijksadviseurs, Vereniging Deltametropool, Urbanreforms, Urban Mobility Center
Gerjan Streng
Gerjan Streng is trained as an architect. With Bright, he works extensively on the energy transition. At a strategic level, his work included spatial advise on the Built Environment during the Dutch Climate Agreement (Klimaatakkoord) and towards a “Spatial Strategy for the Energy System” for the national government. As a designer, he is involved in energy-self-sufficient neighborhoods, such as Almere Pampus, a proposed neighborhood of 30 thousand homes. On a smaller scale, he designs solar parks with ecological added value, and larger and smaller substations for the electricity system.
Topic: "Planning in scenarios" - designing for uncertain futures.
Topic: "Planning in scenarios" - designing for uncertain futures.
Saskia van Stein
Saskia van Stein (she/her) is artistic and managing Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). Currently, Van Stein also holds the position as co - Head of Department, MA The Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy, Eindhoven. Prior to this, she was artistic and managing Director at Bureau Europa, platform for architecture and design, Maastricht, 2013–2019. Van Stein’s curatorial practice started at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (now Nieuwe Instituut) in Rotterdam, 2002–2012, where her first steps were made by programming exhibitions on the intersection of architecture culture, political and human sciences, design and fine arts.
Over the span of her career, her deep-seated interest in the discourse surrounding the politics of representation panned out into experimentation with different exhibition formats, modes of display and methods of knowledge production, as well as moderating and participating in numerous discursive events. She has often spearheaded topics and themes, in and outside of the confined walls of the institutional realm of the museum, questioning cultural production and the designed environment itself.
Lecture
In her talk creative practitioner Saskia van Stein will merge topics of interest from the perspective of her role as artistic and general Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) with a broader cultural analysis. The projects of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam aim to raise awareness on the importance of architecture, landscape and urban planning, in other words the spatial and material consequence of how we organise and shape society. IABR commits itself to the capacity of design research, analysis, vision and imagination as being indispensable in addressing today's challenges. In the contemporary condition of climate breakdown and systemic changes her lecture reflects on how cultural production can be understood as way to navigate the infrastructures, we are implicated in. Besides IABR Van Stein will speak about Panorama Ukraine and will touch on the emerging architectural trends in Dutch Design.
Over the span of her career, her deep-seated interest in the discourse surrounding the politics of representation panned out into experimentation with different exhibition formats, modes of display and methods of knowledge production, as well as moderating and participating in numerous discursive events. She has often spearheaded topics and themes, in and outside of the confined walls of the institutional realm of the museum, questioning cultural production and the designed environment itself.
Lecture
In her talk creative practitioner Saskia van Stein will merge topics of interest from the perspective of her role as artistic and general Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) with a broader cultural analysis. The projects of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam aim to raise awareness on the importance of architecture, landscape and urban planning, in other words the spatial and material consequence of how we organise and shape society. IABR commits itself to the capacity of design research, analysis, vision and imagination as being indispensable in addressing today's challenges. In the contemporary condition of climate breakdown and systemic changes her lecture reflects on how cultural production can be understood as way to navigate the infrastructures, we are implicated in. Besides IABR Van Stein will speak about Panorama Ukraine and will touch on the emerging architectural trends in Dutch Design.