Key Note Speakers
We are delighted to announce that we are organising a range of local and international keynote speakers, as well as workshops and presentations from local projects, panel discussion and more.
Associate Professor Mark Southcombe
Mark Southcombe is an Associate Professor and Director of the Interior Architecture programme at Wellington University School of Architecture, and a principal of multidisciplinary architecture and research practice Southcombe Architects. His research and teaching is focused on Design Housing intensity and Collective Housing fields. He is co-author of the recent book Ecologies Design, has curated a series of Aotearoa Collective Housing Exhibitions, and has an Aotearoa collective housing book project in progress. With Carine Stewart, Damion Siglo Green and Thomas Nash he imagined and initiated the CoHohui series of national symposium.
Mark has been invited to talk about the contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Collective Housing context, implications for emerging projects, and will also note some green shoots and opportunities.
Eleonora Fassina
Eleonora Fassina is an Italian Architect based in Copenhagen and has been employed at Tegnestuen Vandkunsten since 2015.
Eleonora has participated in several cohousing projects, including a senior and family community in Køge developed in collaboration with think-tank Andel, focusing on strengthening everyday communities (hverdagsfællesskaber) and communities at an urban level.
In 2020, she was part of the design and project planning team for the GrønneEng cohousing development for EcoVillage in Copenhagen. Here, privately owned, rental, and cooperative housing are mixed with a wide variety of shared common areas. She was also involved in the development phase of Balance – a senior cohousing community in the city of Ry, developed for pension fund PensionDenmark in collaboration with think-tank Andel and supported by the philanthropic organization Realdania.
Eleonora's interest in cohousing communities began with the task of developing an idea catalogue for "a new family housing model” that had to be based on the 37 types of families that can be found in Denmark today (Statistics Denmark). Many significant aspects emerged, which she believes should always be the starting point for the development of cohousing communities.
She is also the coordinator for the internal research group on housing communities at Vandkunsten and has been responsible for the first publication on Housing Communities presented by Vandkunsten in 2023 during the UIA International Congress of Architecture in Copenhagen. Eleonora has a keen sense of spatial and aesthetic qualities, which are reflected in all the design phases she participates in. Eleonora holds a Master`s degree from Politecnico di Milano School of Architecture in Italy and has previously worked as a design architect in both London & Berlin.
We look forward to hearing from your amazing expertise Eleonora!
Jos de Krieger
Jos de Krieger is one of the partners of Superuse and Co-Founder of Blade–Made. Jos has been working on the reuse of materials for over 15 years. He was creative director for Festa and speaker at TEDx in Christchurch (NZ) in 2016. With Blade–Made he is chosen as Impact Pioneer of the Year 2022 with the Blade–Made concept by the Impact Program curated by TEDxAmsterdam (NL). Besides Superuse and Blade–Made he is a research mentor for TU Delft graduate students at the Faculty of Architecture.
Superuse: The international architecture collective Superuse considers design not as a linear, but circular process of use and re-use. It focuses on the latent properties of used materials and how these offer an added value to new products and buildings. Their work is based on the Blue Economy, a holistic view of nature, mankind and economy with the aim of no longer producing waste, but rather returning everything to the material cycle. For advocates of this principle, Superuse are currently transforming a former adventure pool in Rotterdam into the BlueCity circular hub, where they also work themselves. www.superuse-studios.com
Blade–Made: Blade–Made is a Steward Owned company to (re)use End of Life wind turbine blades in large-scale design as a viable alternative to, or step prior to, blade recycling. Wind turbine blades have inherent design, engineering, material, aesthetic, ergonomic and iconic properties that make them suitable as building elements. Blade–Made transforms these blades into long lasting objects that are functional, beautiful and sustainable, such as playgrounds, urban furniture, sound barriers, bridges, facades and more. www.blade-made.com
Social Media;
Linkedin: @Blade-Made, @Superuse, @Jos de Krieger
Instagram / Facebook used less, but also @superuse or @superuse-studios in most cases.
Louise is a Professor at the Institute of Society and Culture at Western Sydney University
Louise's research focuses on the social, ecological and economic sustainability of community-driven housing developments in Australia; on the uptake of housing innovation in practice and policy; on complex adaptive systems theory in urban contexts; and, on the interfaces between sustainability, property rights, institutional design and democracy. Her work is underpinning the emergence of forms of permanently affordable and community-led housing in Australia, such as housing cooperatives and community land trusts, on which she is Australia's leading expert.
Dr Tom Moore
Dr Tom Moore is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Liverpool. He has researched community-led housing models in England since 2007, exploring their growth and development through local case studies, project and funding evaluations, and international comparisons. Tom is interested in the potential for community-led housing models to challenge transactional, market-based logics that characterise many housing systems, as well as the opportunities and limitations of models that rely on citizen leadership and participation. In addition to community-led housing, Tom undertakes research a range of issues related to community planning and housing policy and inequality. Tom is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Housing and Society journal and a member of the European Network for Housing Research and the Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research.
The Housing Innovation Society
THIS is an advocacy, education & networking body dedicated to supporting innovation in housing development.
Mission.
To support innovation in housing development by addressing issues of equity, affordability and sustainability, to deliver thriving communities and social, environmental and financial wellbeing. THIS aims to support the growth of collective, resident-led solutions for better housing in Aotearoa.