Utzon(x): Siv Helene Stangeland

Performing relational design.

Helen & Hard has from the very beginning been occupied with the more manifold and complex relations in which architecture evolves. Exploring a more co-dependent arising of spatial, material and human organization has become a core agenda.

In H&H's book "relation design" from 2012 Reinhard, Kropf, Siv Helene Stangeland start with asking "what is the best way to approach architecture with an ecological awareness"? Through a range of very different project H&H show how the core elements of architecture are being organized according to complex relations with the environment and people through working on different design levels, synergistic models and breaking with traditional stages of project development.

Design is then not merely a solution but a vehicle for an interdisciplinary process that could lea to a more sustainable development, and which necessarily includes a leaning process for the parties involved.

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