"We can all take action to change our neighbourhoods" says Christian Pagh
People should demand better than the "boring and banal" housing communities that have become the norm, says Christian Pagh, director and chief curator of the eighth Oslo Architecture Triennale in this interview.
"People want to have nice neighbourhoods," said Pagh, as he introduced the exhibition in the Norwegian capital last week. "It's not too much to ask, to expect or to fight for."
Pagh chose Mission Neighbourhood as this year's triennale theme, with a vision to improve the way that homes, streets and community systems are designed and managed.
Christian Pagh is director and chief curator of the eighth Oslo Architecture Triennale
The event sees the former Munch Museum building temporarily reinvented as the Oslo Neighbourhood Lab, a space hosting exhibitions, conversations and workshops exploring what a healthy neighbourhood looks like. In an interview with Dezeen, Pagh said his ambition was to to inspire people ? whether they are built environment professionals or not ? to push for reform.
"What's interesting about the neighbourhood scale is that it's a scale you can actually affect," he said.
"We can all take action to change our neighbourhoods. You can go to a politician. You can demonstrate."
"Why is the baseline so low""
Pagh believes the combination of global capitalism and industrialisation has resulted in a trend for neighbourhoods that don't support the people that live in them and cause issues s...
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