Davos Alliance 2023

We were thrilled to welcome over 50 global leaders dedicated to advancing high-quality Baukultur to the Alliance Breakfast: Shaping High-Quality Places—Securing Investment & Impact. A heartfelt thanks to our inspiring speakers—Tshering Tobgay, Anacláudia Rossbach, Alliance Chair Oliver Martin, Carlo Ratti, Jeff Merritt and our moderator, Lisa Kelvey for sparking such a thought-provoking discussion. Thanks too to Carla Haddad Mardini, Yoon Hong Huh and, Philip Heylen for your reflections and insights. ▶️ Missed it live? Catch the full session here: [https://lnkd.in/ebxfVmCT] Key highlights: 🌿 Lessons from Gelephu Mindfulness City: Showcasing the transformative potential of aligning city governance, design, and cross-sector resources with community happiness, wellness, and a harmonious relationship with nature. The plans build on the dramatic single-generation transformation of Bhutan, anchored in the unique Gross National Happiness policy. 🏘️ The pivotal role of land: As the most expensive component in the housing value chain and with urban land use growing at twice the population growth rate, how we approach land is central to addressing affordability, quality, and ecological challenges. 🌍 Scaling up innovation: We don’t have time for piloting anymore we have to go massive. Sharing practices through networks like the Davos Baukultur Alliance is crucial, especially for addressing the housing and ecological crises. 🏗️ Modular construction: Scaling more efficient construction practices can unlock community health and well-being benefits. 🏛️ Participatory governance and cultural identity: Implementing governance systems that engage communities and foster a profound sense of place Is key to achieving high-quality Baukultur. 🧒🏽 Child-Friendly Cities: Cities that prioritise the needs of society's most vulnerable, especially children are places that will be successful in the future and the present. 📖 The power of storytelling: Emphasising how storytelling connects projects with present and future communities, ensuring diverse, vibrant, and inclusive places. 🌦️ Baukultur and climate resilience: Carlo Ratti linked Baukultur to the 2025 Venice Biennale's theme, #Intelligens, reflecting on the urgent need for collaborative knowledge to help cities adapt to extreme climate challenges. Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or online. #baukultur #davos #davosbaukulturalliance #houseofswitzerland

We were thrilled to welcome over 50 global leaders dedicated to advancing high-quality Baukultur to the Alliance Breakfast: Shaping High-Quality Places—Securing Investment & Impact. A heartfelt thanks to our inspiring speakers—Tshering Tobgay, Anacláudia Rossbach, Alliance Chair Oliver Martin, Carlo Ratti, Jeff Merritt and our moderator, Lisa Kelvey for sparking such a thought-provoking discussion. Thanks too to Carla Haddad Mardini, Yoon Hong Huh and, Philip Heylen for your reflections and insights. ▶️ Missed it live? Catch the full session here: [https://lnkd.in/dP8PJzvk] Key highlights: 🌿 Lessons from Gelephu Mindfulness City: Showcasing the transformative potential of aligning city governance, design, and cross-sector resources with community happiness, wellness, and a harmonious relationship with nature. The plans build on the dramatic single-generation transformation of Bhutan, anchored in the unique Gross National Happiness policy. 🏘️ The pivotal role of land: As the most expensive component in the housing value chain and with urban land use growing at twice the population growth rate, how we approach land is central to addressing affordability, quality, and ecological challenges. 🌍 Scaling up innovation: We don’t have time for piloting anymore we have to go massive. Sharing practices through networks like the Davos Baukultur Alliance is crucial, especially for addressing the housing and ecological crises. 🏗️ Modular construction: Scaling more efficient construction practices can unlock community health and well-being benefits. 🏛️ Participatory governance and cultural identity: Implementing governance systems that engage communities and foster a profound sense of place Is key to achieving high-quality Baukultur. 🧒🏽 Child-Friendly Cities: Cities that prioritise the needs of society's most vulnerable, especially children are places that will be successful in the future and the present. 📖 The power of storytelling: Emphasising how storytelling connects projects with present and future communities, ensuring diverse, vibrant, and inclusive places. 🌦️ Baukultur and climate resilience: Carlo Ratti linked Baukultur to the 2025 Venice Biennale's theme, #Intelligens, reflecting on the urgent need for collaborative knowledge to help cities adapt to extreme climate challenges. Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or online. #baukultur #davos #davosbaukulturalliance #houseofswitzerland

🌍 Baukultur Breakfast: Shaping High-Quality Places – Securing Investment & Impact 🌟 Parallel to the 2025 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Davos Baukultur Alliance is thrilled to host a Baukultur Breakfast tomorrow, January 23, 2025, with a public livestream! 🎤 Highlights include: - H.E. Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister of Bhutan, sharing insights into plans for the groundbreaking Gelephu Mindfulness City," developed in collaboration with BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Alliance member Arup. - Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme), addressing the vital connection between land policy, affordable housing and inclusive places. Event Details: 🗓 Date: January 23, 2025 📍 Location: House of Switzerland, Davos 📺 Join the livestream or view the recording here: [https://lnkd.in/dS4YMM5t] 🗣 Language: English 💡 Moderator: Lisa Kelvey, KPMG ➕ Contributions from: Yoon Hong Huh, Carla Haddad Mardini & Philip Heylen 🎤 Closing Remarks: Carlo Ratti, Curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 Join us to gain valuable insights from global leaders shaping the future of our built environments. #baukultur #davos #architecture #bhutan #houseofswitzerland #spatialplanning #landuse #urbandesign #holistichighquality #inclusiveplaces #affordable #housing

Interested in how innovative place-based models can unlock significant retrofit finance? Then take a look at this recent Agenda article by Rupesh Madlani and Christine Zhou of Alliance member BwB At a glance: 🏦 Retrofitting existing residential buildings is crucial for mitigating climate change but structural and financial factors mean that relying on individual homeowners to take action is not a viable solution. 🌉 There is an urgent need for models that bridge the gap between "where finance is" and "where finance needs to be" to accelerate retrofit activity at scale without sacrificing quality. 💷 Bankers without Boundaries (BwB) is developing an innovative place-based approach that creates financially bankable projects while promoting a sense of community. https://lnkd.in/eJqRHdP8

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📢 Important piece of work spearheaded by Alliance member Avison Young and the World Economic Forum alongside many others. Discover more about the Playbook below 👇

“Our cities are going to have to be fundamentally different. As we rebuild our material economies, as we rebuild ecological infrastructures, we are going to have to think about a new human-machine economy. The human contribution is going to be about our cognitive capabilities, our capacity to care.” – Indy Johar, Founder of Dark Matter Labs and member of the Davos Baukultur Alliance   The two-day Annual Meeting of Davos Baukultur Alliance at the World Economic Forum headquarters in Geneva brought together over 100 leaders from 25 countries, across 5 continents including investment innovators, leaders in circular construction and materials, ministries of urban development, housing and culture, visionary architects, social entrepreneurs, infrastructure designers, educators, and more.   This uniquely multidisciplinary gathering was opened by Federal Councillor Elisabeth Baume-Schneider and State Councillor Antonio Hodgers. It featured debates, innovative practice sharing, and fostered knowledge sharing via 22 sessions, including plenaries, small group discussions, project presentations, and concluded with a presentation by Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on her Pollinator Pathmaker work creating ‘interspecies artwork.’ The Davos Baukultur Alliance, chaired by Bundesamt für Kultur BAK, is designed to recouple human-centered planning and development with more sustainable building practices to create more resilient, adaptable communities that strengthen culture and evoke a strong sense of place.   >> See photos of the event here: https://lnkd.in/dMvGhyE9   >> Learn more about the Alliance here: https://lnkd.in/dyP5te8Y   📷 © World Economic Forum

We are excited to welcome DIALOG, Diriyah Company l شركة الدرعية, Drees & Sommer and MASS Design Group to the Davos Baukultur Alliance Each will bring their unique expertise across #planning, #design, #heritage, #construction, #realestate, #culture, and more to enrich the mission of our growing community: transforming places through a holistic and high-quality building culture

📢 A warm welcome to Arup and Dark Matter Labs, who have joined our growing community. They both bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to help further our goal: Advancing quality planning, construction, and management of more inclusive, sustainable and resilient communities. 

📢 We are delighted to announce that Habitat for Humanity International has become a member of the Davos Baukultur Alliance bringing its global expertise in adequate and affordable housing. 👇 Read on to hear why they have chosen to join the Alliance 💬 "Habitat for Humanity is thrilled to join Davos Baukultur to help further its efforts toward the advancement of more inclusive, sustainable and vibrant communities. Since its founding in 1976, Habitat for Humanity has served more than 46 million across the globe as part of its vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. In fiscal year 2022, it helped more than 7.1 million people build or improve a place to call home, and through training and advocacy, an additional 5 million more gained the potential to improve their housing conditions. It looks forward to partnering with the other Alliance members to improve living environments and highlight the importance of access to adequate and affordable housing worldwide."