Failure Lunch with award winning Alejandro Aravena
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts”
On 22 November 2017 a Failure Lunch, a public forum where failures and lessons learned from failures are shared, was held with this years’ winner of the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development Alejandro Aravena and the Do-Tank firm Elemental. The Gothenburg Award is an international prize that recognizes and supports work towards sustainable development. Previous winners include Kofi Annan, Al Gore and Paul Polman.
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The team from Elemental together with Daniel Andersson from Social resource management at the City of Gothenburg and Joakim Forsemalm, Associate Professor in Ethnology at Radar arkitekter & planering, shared inspiring stories about when dialogues for urban development didn’t go as expected and what they have learned.
“Both Success and failure is relative.”
“If you want to achieve a quality built environment, everyone has to raise their quality.”
Alejandro Aravena
“A promise that was never delivered – That is the key problem when working with dialogues in city development. And are we really listening?”
Joakim Forsemalm
“Dialogues don’t have a start and an end. We always inherit what has happened before.”
Daniel Andersson
Take part of the discussions on Twitter #FailureLunch
Watch a short interview with Joakim Forsemalm and Daniel Andersson.
The event was hosted together with SDSN Northern Europe and the GAME Network.
Read more about the event Failure Lunch.