Next Generation Network
Empowering the Next Generation: A global movement for sustainable architecture, design and construction
Next Generation Ambassadors
Empowering the Next Generation: A global movement for sustainable architecture, design and construction
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Next Generation Accelerator (NGX) Workshop 2022
The Next Generation Accelerator (NGX) workshop included a site visit to the Global Holcim Awards Gold 2021 winning project in Winterthur near Zurich, that upgraded an industrial building using circular material flows.
The Holcim Foundation works with some of the brightest young minds in architecture, urbanism and design. This network aims to boost the exchange of knowledge and rate of innovation across the building sector - and empower a community of young changemakers around the world.
Next Generation Ambassadors
In 2023, the Holcim Foundation launched the Next Generation Ambassadors Program to provide financial support and opportunities for students and young practitioners to accelerate exploration of their impactful ideas for the construction sector and sustainability policy processes.
Next Generation Ambassadors Program
Our six Next Generation Ambassadors work together to enable the transfer of sustainable solutions ideas across regions. They focus on building a culture that amplifies the exchange of the latest thinking and best practice in sustainable design
Through this program and in collaboration with local organizations and universities, the Next Generation Ambassadors have the chance to act as catalysts of change by designing, coordinating and implementing two sustainable, socially inclusive – and deeply collaborative – building projects.
The two projects are joined under the thematic umbrella Clinic of Care, intent on a collaborative and holistic approach that entails working closely with communities and local stakeholders to understand needs and create a culturally, financially, and climatically appropriate built response.
The interventions comprise a maternity ward expansion in the Tanzanian village of Nkweshoo (situated on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro), as well as the adaptation of abandoned Indonesian vernacular housing (within the village of Keniten in the Yogyakarta Sultanate of Indonesia) into a rehearsal space and cultural venue for a traditional dance collective.
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Clinic of Care in Indonesia
The Holcim Foundation’s Next Generation Ambassadors are collaborating on a project in the village of Mutihan Madurejo in Java’s Yogyakarta region. Clinic of Care: Indonesia will support the restoration and adaptation of an abandoned Joglo structure into a rehearsal space and cultural venue for a traditional dance collective.
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Clinic of Care in Tanzania
The small medical center and dispensary that serves the village of Nkweshoo in Tanzania offers a vital yet critically under-resourced amenity. To help address a longstanding community need, a trio of young architectural practitioners are working with community members to expand Nkweshoo’s existing dispensary and maternity facility to improve the quality of care and childbirth services.
Research in Practice Grants
The Next Generation Ambassador Program follows on from the Research in Practice Grant (RPG) program offered by the Foundation to support ground-breaking, practice-related research in the field of sustainable construction. Between 2018 and 2023 the RPG program funded the following projects:
Ocean Energy Landscapes, Argentina
Grant recipients: Stefano Romagnoli, Tomás Pont Apóstolo, Juan Cruz Serafini
Project status: Completed
Brick by Brick, South Africa
Grant recipient: Heidi Boulanger
Project status: completed
(in)formal Pattern Language, Egypt
Grant recipient: Nada Nafeh
Project status: completed
Unmaking Architecture: Re-Assembly Lines, USA
Grant recipient: Daniel Marshall
Project status: ongoing
Amazon vernacular architecture: lessons of sustainability to the formal space of Manaus, Brazil
Grant recipient: Danielle Gregorio
Project status: Documentary released May 2023, publication due late-2023
Buoyant Amenity, Indonesia
Grant recipients: Rionaldi Gunari, Laurentius Nicholas Rodriques, Gani Wiratama
Project status: ongoing
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