This year ECOWEEK is celebrating its 15-year anniversary!
So, we intend to celebrate it with a series of online events and a virtual exhibition.
Then, in the summer of 2021, we will hold a very special one-week design-build hands-on event in Aegina, Greece!
Whether in virtual or physical workshops, at ECOWEEK students design and implement their ideas and develop their thinking
in sustainability. We even manage to implement many of these ideas in cities around the world!
Due to COVID-19, ECOWEEK responded with online ECOWEEK Challenge events. The first, was successfully launched in May 2020, and we are now inviting you to the second ECOWEEK Online Challenge in 2 - 4 October 2020.
With award-winning French architect Nicola Delon as the keynote speaker, with an impressive line-up of speakers from 15 countries - in collaboration with the EUNIC - EU cultural institutes, and with an online exhibition marking the 15-year activity and collaboration of ECOWEEK with professionals, students, institutions and public bodies around the world, we are expecting one of the most unique ECOWEEK online challenges this October!
For the past 15 years, ECOWEEK has developed outreach programs to more than 17 countries, making an impact in more than 30 cities. Through more than 200 sustainable design workshops, ECOWEEK has engaged more than 4000 students and professionals from 56 countries in sustainability training and practice. ECOWEEK design-build workshops have affected public spaces and institutions, and have empowered and engaged in the making, thousands of people!
Participants confirm that ECOWEEK conferences and sustainable design workshops have become for them a unique experience
and a turning point to their professional growth and career.
Join us in this very special ECOWEEK 15-year anniversary event!
about.
ECOWEEK is a non-profit organization established in 2005
with the passion to change people's habits, and the mission to raise environmental awareness
and to promote the principles of social and environmental sustainability through design.
ECOWEEK is active in 17 countries with a network in 56 countries.
ECOWEEK is about training and education, networking and expanding horizons, knowledge and opportunities, with a special emphasis on circular economy, green buildings,
sustainable design, and placemaking.
ECOWEEK creates platforms of learning and doing, of initiating change in neighborhoods
and cities, and empowering young professionals. Through international conferences
and sustainable design workshops in cities around the world.
ECOWEEK brings together professionals and students of Architecture,
Design, Landscape Architecture, Industrial Design, Planning,
Visual Communication and graphic deisgn, and other disciplines.
From what our past participants tell us,
the ECOWEEK experience is life-changing, eye-opening and empowering.
Join us!
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15 years 15 voices 15+1 countries
FRANCE _____________________ BRAZIL ______ ROMANIA __________________ LITHUANIA _______GREECE
ITALY __________________ CZECH REPUBLIC ___________________ HUNGARY ___________ AUSTRIA ______ BELGIUM __GERMANY_________ POLAND _________ NETHERLANDS ______ ISRAEL ___ UK __________ TURKEY _____KOSOVO
exhibition.
ECOWEEK has been active for 15 years on issues of sustainability and design around the world
and has created a network of over 5,000 people in 56 countries.
At a time when the planet is united in experiencing the pandemic of COVID-19,
we find ourselves physically separated, but still digitally connected.
Under these unusual circumstances ECOWEEK summarizes the first chapter of its activity over the past 15 years
with its first online exhibition! This exhibition aims to spread the word of sustainability worldwide and, by exhibiting the workshop projects of students and young professionals, to thank its past participants and inspire visitors from around the world
with creative and innovative ideas in sustainable design.
program.
All hours displayed are UTC/GMT+3 time zone (Athens, Greece time zone)
All sessions take place through virtual meeting platforms
friday 2 october________________________
10 am ___ opening introduction
elias messinas ecoweek founding chairman & despoina kouinoglou ecoweek associate
eunic panel
moderator : elias messinas
10:30 - 11:30 ___ eunic panel I
Preserving the planet : How to reverse the trend? part I
Jonas Zukauskas and Jurga Daubaraite _ LI_ Forest Parts _ Neringa forest architecture
Ulrike Schartner _ gaupenraub _ AU _ On the edge | Projects for fringe groups
Nikos Mantzaris _ Ministry of Environment & Energy_ GR _ Trends in Greece's climate & energy policy |
A paradigm shift in the making
Ran Avraham _ Ministry of Environmental Protection _ IL _ A thriving economy in a sustainable environment - Israel 2050
11:30 - 12:00 ___ q & a
moderator : elias messinas
12:00 - 12:45 ___ keynote lecture
The risk crisis: How to move beyond it
NICOLA DELON ____________ ENCORE HEUREUX ARCHITECTES _ FR
moderator : elias messinas
exhibition tour
curator : pavlos symianakis
12:45 - 13:15 ___ exhibition tour
pavlos symianakis & the ecoweek volunteers
virtual exhibition
13:15 - 13:45 ______________________BREAK (on your own)
ecoweek panel
moderator : sofia passia
13:45 - 16:00 ___ lectures
Preserving the planet : Making it (more) Circular and (more) Sustainable
Natalia Pantelidou _ Deputy Mayor at Municipality of Kalamaria _ GR _Kids and Public space
Nicolas Le Roux _ COTA760 _ BR_ An approach to urban design transformations in Latin America
Vivian Doumpa _ Stipo InCommon _ GR _ Interweaving circularity with placemaking;
a conceptual exploration with real-life experimentation
Maria Dalkafouki _ Dalkafouki Oikos E.P.E _ GR _ Buildings of the past, stories of today
Sophia Vyzoviti _ University of Thessaly _ GR _Shell Performativity as a Tool for Urban Action
eunic panel
moderator : elias messinas
16:00 - 17:15 ___ eunic panel II
Preserving the planet : How to reverse the trend? part I
Magor Csibi _ Trend_ RO _ The connection between human and nature behavior
Maria Carmela Frate _ Architetto_ IT _ The paradigm of sustainability in buildings
Dr. Andras Reith _ ABUD _HU _ E - CO - Housing case study and other projects
Emese Pancsa_ Compocity _ HU _ Sustainability education based on value propositions
Ing. Jaroslav Haimy Hyjanek _ Safari Park Dvur Kralove _ CzR _ Let's save rhinos together
Maciej Siuda Pracownia _ PO _ The Dematerialization of Architecture
17:15 - 17:30 ___ q & a
moderator : elias messinas
17:30 - 17:45 _____________________BREAK (on your own)
18:00 ___conclusions
elias messinas ecoweek founding chairman & despoina kouinoglou ecoweek associate
dr. martin ladislau salamon, director of the romanian cultural institute
18:00 ______ workshops launch
MEET YOUR TUTORS
saturday 3 october______________________
11 am ___ online workshops meeting
coordinator : vicky panagiotidou
during the day ___________ feedback
19:00 ___ online workshops meeting
coordinator : vicky panagiotidou
sunday 4 october_______________________
11 am ___ online workshops meeting
coordinator : vicky panagiotidou
during the day ___________ feedback
19:00 ___ workshops deadline
~submit workshop materials
19:30-20:00 ___presentations & closing
the ecoweek team
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L E C T U R E S
Join us for the livestream on the ECOWEEK Youtube Channel
EARLY Registration (till 25/9) ________________________ CLOSED
LATE Registration (after 26/9) _______________________________ CLOSED
JOIN 1+1 (bring a friend) __________________ CLOSED
Workshops suitable for students, young and established professionals in the disciplines of Architecture, Design, Landscape Architecture, Industrial Design, Planning, Visual Communication and Graphic Design. Other professions may also join and experience working with these disciplines. Best for graduate or undergraduate students in second year on. Participation in the workshops requires a time commitment. Please allocate this time for yourself.
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