Description
During this event, the BK Talks joins Archiprix 2026 to unpack a question that is quickly becoming unavoidable: what are the borders of architecture today—and what capacities should remain inside the realm of the designer?The future of the design professions will be defined less by fixed disciplinary lines and more by the architects ability to navigate complexity. As climate breakdown reshapes environments, economies, and everyday life, architectural work can no longer remain confined to buildings and the extraction of matter alone. Many —especially younger— practitioners are increasingly working at the edges of the discipline, moving between weather patterns, ecology, technology, policy, social activism, DYI strategies and collaboratng with other than human animals.
Working across disciplines requires different capacities from architects and their edication. If material and CO2 reduction are the new drivers of spacial design, then we also need new roles and design attitudes—architects as systems thinkers, facilitators, coaches and/or stewards of resources— and being able to design with uncertainty, scarcity, and long time horizons. How do we expand the design field without losing what architecture is valued for: analytical judgement, spatial intelligence, craft, aesthetics and constructive responsibilities?
These shifts come with frictions. Climate crisis is not only an environmental crisis; it is a socio-political crisis with spatial ramifications. What happens when climate action collides with economic interests? What are the consequences when the profession’s values are negotiated across generations? When authorship gives way to collective work with scientists, communities, and other disciplines—are designers prepared for what that implies?
If education isn’t radical enough to meet this moment, what is it for? And what would it mean, concretely, to work more collectively—without dissolving accountability?
BK Talks x Archiprix 2026: a conversation about how architectural practice is changing, why it is changing, and what the discipline should fight to keep.
| Period | 10 Mar 2026 |
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| Event title | BK Talks |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Delft, NetherlandsShow on map |