Session Description:
The event focuses on finding nuanced, context-specific solutions to the complex challenges facing the global built environment, such as climate change, social inequality, and economic pressures. It addresses resource overuse in construction,, the human rights implications of decarbonization, and the vulnerability of urban areas and cultural heritage to climate risks.
Central to these solutions is the integration of indigenous knowledge, emphasizing its value in creating resilient, low-impact, and community-driven approaches. The event also promotes the concept of sufficiency—using just enough resources to meet needs sustainably—and upholds human rights as a foundation for equitable, inclusive design.
By promoting global and regional collaboration between Global North and South architects, sufficiency experts, policymakers, and local communities, the event delivers tailored strategies for climate-resilient urban development, innovative policy recommendations, and a catalogue of tools that reflect a commitment to sustainability, sufficiency, and social justice, ensuring that climate adaptation efforts uplift vulnerable communities while protecting the environment.
Watch Live
9:30-9:35 | Introduction of the Session and Speakers
- Speaker: Mina Hasman, Architect, SOM/RIBA (Moderator)
9:35-9:50 | Setting the Scene: We Are Not on Track
Fireside chat discussing the BGSR report.
- Moderator: Mina Hasman.
- Speakers: Giulio Ferrini (Head of Built Environment, Institute for Human Rights and Business), Cedric De Meeus (Holcim).
9:50-10:00 | Launch of the GlobalABC Sufficiency Report
- Speaker: Cédric Borel and Damien Tamisier (A4MT).
- Moderation: Mina Hasman introduces the report.
10:00-10:20 | Reaction to the GlobalABC Sufficiency Report
- Speakers:
- Yves-Laurent Sapoval (Climate Chance, Urban Envoy, France).
- Emna Bchir (International Union of Architects).
- Illya Azaroff (FAIA, The American Institute of Architects).
- Moderation: Mina Hasman introduces each speaker.
- Key Focus Areas:
- Perspectives on sufficiency in the built environment.
- Challenges and opportunities in integrating sufficiency into global practices.
10:20-10:40 | Panel Discussion
- Speaker:
- Yves-Laurent Sapoval (Climate Chance).
- Gatean Siew (International Union of Architects).
- Iman Gawad (International Union of Architects).
- Illya Azaroff (FAIA, The American Institute of Architects).
- Moderation: Mina Hasman.
10:40-10:55 | Audience Q&A
- Who: Moderator and all panelists.
- Focus: Open floor for audience questions on decarbonization, sufficiency, and architecture’s role in sustainable development.
10:55-11:00 | Conclusion
- Who: Mina Hasman.
