Keynote Programme

The keynote programme brings together practitioners whose work treats space, dialogue, and embodied awareness as civic infrastructure. Across architecture, peacebuilding, education, the arts, and frontline civic practice, the speakers ask what it means to rebuild not only buildings, but trust, participation, and public life. Craig Dykers, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Francis Kéré, Thania Paffenholz, Ilwad Elman, and Daniel Proietto each bring a distinct perspective: civic architecture as cultural continuity, public space as democratic ground, building as participatory learning, peacebuilding as inclusive process, frontline peace work as lived civic reconstruction, and movement as a condition for dialogue. Together, they establish the intellectual and human frame for Rethinking Rebuilding.