In an age where acceleration has become the norm and change unfolds at an ever-increasing pace, we must pause and ask: What role does speed play in architecture, in our built environments, and in society when everything is becoming fleeting?
With the title Architecture Beyond Acceleration, Arkitekturdagen 2025 turns the spotlight on how architecture can embody time and offer resistance to the rhythms of the present. How are our working methods and buildings affected by increasing speed – and can a slower form of architecture enable other, more sustainable solutions?
Through lectures, conversations and presentations, we explore questions of permanence, memory, loss and transformation – but also of slower practices, techniques for spatial durability, and the role of architecture in the societal transition.
In connection with Arkitekturdagen, the exhibition SLOW DOWN opens – a group show developed in collaboration with CAFx, Copenhagen Architecture Festival. The exhibition gathers 24 imaginative responses that do not view our environments as isolated places, but as parts of larger ecological, geological and societal systems.
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With guests such as Rotor, BMA, Norell/Rodhe and Beka & Lemoine – among many others – we explore perspectives on the relationship between architecture and time, featuring practices that have long expanded and challenged conventional notions of what “sustainable architecture and planning” might be.
This year also sees the return of our Book Stage, where publisher Dan Hallemar (Arkitektur Förlag) leads in-depth conversations with a range of authors in the café at Form/Design Center. The Book Stage is a collaboration between Form/Design Center, Konst-ig Bookshop and Architects Sweden.
The full programme will be published at a later date.
