How we live: Event at the Architecture Biennale, Venice

Make Bioeconomy happen – seminar and exhibitions about sustainable wood construction

On the 18th of September 2018 the Swedish Forest Industries Federation organized an event focused on bioeconomy and how wooden buildings can increase the opportunity to mitigate climate change and to reach the Paris agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Several strong links between Sustainable Development Goals and a growing bioeconomy

FAO: we are ready for a new relationship with the forest

The program was hosted in the center of the Architecture Biennale in Venice, at Serra dei Giardini where the Swedish architects had an exhibit with installations solely of wood from sustainably managed Nordic forests.

Anders Ek, chairperson of CEI Bois about increasing the use of wood

Bernardo Bader, Austrian Architect, on building with wood and sustainable development

Carina Håkansson, Swedish Forest Industries Federation, on how bioeconomy can contribute to climate change mitigation

Tove Dumon-Wallsten, Architects Sweden, about the Swedish exhibition in Venice