SHARE - New Communities and Collective Futures

SHARE explores the meanings, contradictions, and contested interpretations surrounding sustainability. SHARE raises a fundamental question: How can we reshape the way we live and imagine new collective futures?

SHARE examines how architecture, landscape design, and spatial practices can challenge conventional notions of ownership, belonging, and social organization. Moving beyond sharing as an act of generosity or a strategy for redistributing resources, the symposium considers community not as a fixed social structure, but as something continuously shaped by evolving relationships, collective aspirations, and new forms of cooperation. Who will constitute the communities of the future and how will they take shape?

Sharing involves more than equality or inclusion. It entails negotiating cultural and geographical differences, confronting conflicting interests, and questioning structures that condition participation and exclusion. The symposium explores tensions between individual autonomy and collective responsibility, utopian aspirations and everyday realities, asking whether alternative forms of coexistence can genuinely challenge established social and economic hierarchies.

Could the future engender truly alternative forms of community and coexistence? What if belonging were no longer defined by permanent settlement, shared territory, or even human identity? SHARE explores the potential for alternative forms of coexistence: nomadic communities, fluid and temporary societies, and multispecies collectives in which humans, animals, and other living beings inhabit and shape environments together. Such perspectives invite us to reconsider the very foundations of how we organize society, inhabit the planet, and understand our relationships with other forms of life.

The three talks explore alternative models of collective habitation, experimental and utopian communities, and the role of architecture and landscape design in envisioning new relationships.

SCHEDULE DECEMBER, 1, 2026
AT 11:00 AM EDT (BOSTON) / 5:00 PM CET (CENTRAL EUROPE)

11.00|11.05 OPENING SYMPOSIUM| INTRO GUEST
11.05| 11.20 METTE SKJOLD
ARCHITECT, CEO AND SENIOR PARTNER AT SLA,
COPENHAGEN-BASED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO.
MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S
NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS EXPERT GROUP

11,20|11.25 INTRO GUEST
11.25|11.40 PABLO SENDRA
ARCHITECT. PROFESSOR OF URBAN DESIGN AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
AT THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF PLANNING, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL)
DIRECTOR OF THE MSc URBAN DESIGN AND CITY PLANNING PROGRAMME AT UCL

11.40.11.45 INTRO GUEST
11.45|12.00 RAHUL MEHROTRA
ARCHITECT. PROFESSOR IN HOUSING AND URBANIZATION
AT HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
FORMER CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN AT
HARVARD GSD; FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL OF RMA ARCHITECTS, MUMBAI AND BOSTON

12.00| 12.20 DISCUSSION