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Founded by Anna Resch and Sebastian Jobst, Konnektom is a flexible platform for the conception and realization of projects in the fields of art, music and architecture.
PROJECTS
NEWSLETTER
IMPRINT
Founded by Anna Resch and Sebastian Jobst, Konnektom is a flexible platform for the conception and realization of projects in the fields of art, music and architecture.
commissioned by Bundeskammer der Ziviltechniker:innen Österreich / Federal Chamber of Architects and Chartered Engineering Consultants, Austria
project management, project coordination of the Creative Europe project ARCH-E
https://www.arch-e.eu/
ARCH-E is listed as a best practice example by:
- The New European Bauhaus
- The European Education and Culture Executive Agency
- The Creative Europe Desk Austria
The Architects’ Council of Europe commissioned Konnektom to manage the ARCH-E Glossary Expansion.
- The ARCH-E Glossary on the ACE website
ARCH-E
Since February 2024, Anna Resch and Sebastian Jobst, Konnektom, have been supporting the Creative Europe project ARCH-E as project coordinators. Under the lead of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Architects and Chartered Engineering Consultants, ten partner institutions and 9 cooperation partners are collaborating on the Europe-wide project. The ARCH-E team is conducting studies to analyze existing barriers for architects to participate in transnational architectural competitions, developing tools to overcome these barriers in the future and advocating for improvements in the legal framework for ADCs.
Currently, transnational participation in ADCs is very low due to barriers that exclude the vast majority of architects from the market. This hinders competition and thus lowers the quality of our built environment, as many great ideas get lost. Small/microenterprises - with an above- average proportion of female and/or young architects - are particularly affected, which has a detrimental effect on their professional career. Promoting ADCs will lead to a better implementation of the Davos Declaration for Baukultur and of the New European Bauhaus, as high-quality building projects will help to meet the climate challenge and to improve the quality of the built environment. ARCH-E has gathered data to uncover the main challenges and, on this basis, provides policy recommendations as well as tools for architects to be used in their everyday work. The main outputs are the ARCH-E Map, a comparative description of national ADC systems, the multilingual ARCH-E Glossary with technical terms and the Architects’ Needs Report. The newly developed ARCH-E online platform provides a wide range of information on ADC systems (with a special focus on consideration of Baukultur und New Bauhaus standards) and facilitates transnational participation. One core element is a network of >500 architects from >70 countries, from which transnational working groups can be quickly recruited for participation in ADCs. This is especially important for women and young professionals who usually have less transnational business contacts. In a White Paper we inform policymakers about the project results and provide recommendations how the internationalisation of careers, equal treatment and the Green Deal goals can be achieved best in architecture.
Our consortium reaches over 580,000 architects across Europe who benefit from the project results.
ARCH-E Conference in Brussels
The ARCH-E × ACE Conference in Brussels marked the conclusion of a landmark EU project on Architectural Design Competitions (ADCs) — with 45 speakers from across Europe, a joint declaration by International Union of Architects and Architects' Council of Europe , a key note by Adam Caruso, and a closing statement by EU Commissioner for Culture Glenn Micallef.
Read more about the conference
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