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Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities: Opening Act
The Norman Foster Institute's "Opening Act" introduced the first cohort of students in January 2024 and included various talks from experts in industry and academia. Kent Larson, the Co-Director of the Institute, and Dava Newman, the Honorary Dean, both spoke at the event and met with students.
The NFI's goal is to create a new center for multidisciplinary education, open to applicants in fields related to sustainability and cities; its programs will link to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. In this age of climate change, its programming is addressed to those who wish, through practice or education, to improve the quality of life in cities worldwide. The creation of the Institute follows from the success of the Foundation’s program of workshops, which have been running since its launch in 2017, bringing together experts from academia, practice, and consulting to engage with participants from around the world.
Scholars will visit and work in three pilot cities to engage directly with their planners and managers. They will use the most up-to-date digital tools in the quest to improve a sustainable quality of life. Towards the end of the yea
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Architectures of Knowledge: Designing the Library
Boundary conditions: What should a library be?
Foster + Partner’s House of Wisdom in Sharjah, UAE, was completed in 2021, as global restrictions on movement were beginning to ease. This new ‘House’, a community library formulated as part of a UNESCO World Book Capital initiative, coincidentally offered an alternative to the mental confinement in the ‘home’ brought about by the pandemic. The completion was timely; it testified to a sustained – perhaps even growing – need for flexible spaces where people could learn and commune. It asked how knowledge is conceptualised, accessed, and shared in a built environment. And it (re)imagined the library in its contemporary context as a space not just for books, but for people.
Described by architect and writer Michael Spens as the ultimate ‘repository for social values,’ the library is a key interface, a contact point, between an individual and their broader social and cultural field. This fundamental condition of the library as the border space between worlds – real, instructive, or imaginary – has manifold spatial consequences. As social historian Ken Worpole comments:
Libraries operate on the boundary between the secular and the sacred, between the archival and the exploratory, a