Antti Ahlava (Professor of Emergent Design Methodologies at Aalto University, Helsinki)
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Recent urbanistic movements in Helsinki have emphasised participatory development and empowerment, as represented by Ahlava’s design projects, incl. Jätkäsaari communal housing and Helsinki City Hall Quarter renewal. Dynamic elements of community building – diversity, participation, identity, togetherness and collaboration can be approached through the theory of relationships (metaxography), originating from a review to canonical Metabolist and post-modernist writings from the 1960’s to 90’s and from the interplay between architecture and anthropology during the ontographic turnaround. The approach replaces reductionism and solitude by relational and collective development, opening new aesthetic and ethical directions.
Bio:
Antti Ahlava, M.Arch SAFA, Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, is Partner at international architecture bureau helsinkizurich, Professor of Emergent Design Methodologies at Aalto University, Helsinki, working on cross-disciplinary art and metaxography in architecture. He is also responsible for the campus development of AU. Antti’s design work focusses on adaptive reuse and urban renewal, consisting of campus design, industrial heritage, reuse, museum and housing projects, including Helsinki Art Museum HAM, infill projects in Helsinki region and the urban design of Helsinki City Hall Quartiers. He received a Human City Design Award in 2019.