Bucharest Architecture Annual Bucharest 2024

04.09.2024

International research group Dark Matter Labs is the curator of the Bucharest Architecture Annual 2024

The curator of the XXII edition of the Bucharest Architecture Annual (AAB) 2024 is the international research group Dark Matter Labs through its representatives, the main founders of the group: arch. Indy Johar (England), arh. Ivana Stancic (Denmark) and urb. Joost Beunderman (Netherlands).

Curatorial statement

In the midst of a crisis of climate change, deteriorating nature and biodiversity, pollution and waste, we must recognize that Europe's built environment needs to reduce more than 95% of its carbon footprint by 2030 to avoid climate collapse. At a time when many countries are facing a housing crisis and modernization of the building stock is essential to reduce energy consumption, we also need to address the embodied carbon and other environmental damage caused by 'building as usual'.

Dark Matter Labs is actively involved in the EU's Mission for 100 Climate Neutral Cities by 2030 and the New European Bauhaus. It also works with numerous cities, philanthropic and other organizations to accelerate the transition to a renewable and equitable future.

The overarching theme of the Bucharest Architecture Annual 2024 is Sustainable Bucharest and follows the triad of Annuals centered on the New European Bauhaus European program, whose core values are sustainability, inclusivity and aesthetics. The Bucharest Architecture Annual applies each year, as a research optic, a European value to Bucharest and analyzes it from this perspective.

You can enter the AAB 2024 competition until September 20, 2024 (midnight). Please find below the registration link:

https://www.anuala.ro/2024/regulament/

If you have any questions, please send an email to: secretariat@oar-bucuresti.ro

Good luck everyone!

Dark Matter Labs members presentation

Indy Johar is an architect by training and a maker by practice, he is a Senior Innovation Associate at the Young Foundation. Indy is co-founder of Impact Hub Birmingham and Open Systems Lab, a former member of the RSA's Inclusive Growth Commission and a former Harmonious Development Advisor to the Mayor of London. Indy is a director of project00.cc and Dark Matter Laboratories.

Ivana Stancic works in Copenhagen and focuses her work on systems change in urban planning and territorial transition. Her expertise lies in bridging the gap between strategic design and urban planning. In this role, she has more than 10 years of experience in research and design focused on sustainable urban development and future city strategies.

Joost Beunderman is an urban planner, writer and researcher. Director at project00.cc, he has led a wide range of projects within the 00 network - from urban regeneration to employment spaces, from civic entrepreneurship to results-oriented funding for green infrastructure. He studied at Utrecht University, University of California-Berkeley and London School of Economics and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.