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On the Boards: Failed Architecture

  • Urban Systems 134 11 Avenue Southeast Calgary, AB, T2G 0X5 Canada (map)
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An iterative process, design ideas continue to build upon past failures. We'd like to invite you into the process of design, to participate in critical feedback loops that inform new ways of working.  

Taking three different design scenarios, on October 25 we'll take the time to explore the complex issues that influence design's impact. What barriers does design face in its aim to become more equitable and accessible?

This discussion is a safe space for thinking critically. The format invites your ideas and questions into the room. What's failed, what's working . . . and why? 

Three design ideas will be presented to initiate the conversation, using a lens of failed architecture. Think of this as a post-post-secondary crit, a place to question in order to better see.

Tickets: General $20. Members $0.

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Presenters

Blanka Bracic leads the City of Calgary’s Liveable Streets division, where she helps develop multimodal transportation policy, projects, and programs. With degrees in civil engineering and urban planning, her goal is to increase people’s quality of life by creating an inclusive, healthy, and active city; a city where public space is more inviting for everyone.

María del Sol Galdón is an award-winning landscape architect with experience in a variety of types and scales of landscape design projects. In 2015 she launched her landscape design studio, where she collaborates with architects, builders, and homeowners to create spaces that evoke emotion and improve people’s experience of a place. 

Philip Vandermey is an architect and urbanist. He is a founding partner of SPECTACLE Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism, where he leads award-winning projects of a wide range of scales and typologies. His approach to design combines local and international perspectives, as well as a passion for creating great, sustainable cities.


Where: Urban Systems, #101, 134 11 Ave SE, Calgary, AB.
When: Doors open at 5:30 p.m. | Program starts at 6:00 p.m.

Earlier Event: September 27
Members: come with us behind the scenes
Later Event: February 11
Let's talk about . . . togetherness