2022 Real Matter Workshop – Johanna Hurme

Wednesday, July 27 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Johanna Hurme is an architect and cofounder of Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture. The firm seeks projects that explore the potential for density, affordability, sustainability achieved through non-traditional means and a dynamic design approach. For the past 15 years, 546 has been pursuing a critical architectural response to contemporary issues in multi-family housing and urban design, grounded in real-life practice-based experience and a tandem investigation into worldwide housing research and built work. In this time, Johanna has discovered that an architect’s scope of work stretches deep and wide, necessitating an understanding of how their role in challenging contexts must increasingly intersect with politics, economics, social activism, and other forms of cultural and scholarly research and pragmatic engagement.

• Participants will acquire knowledge of an architectural practice operating in the ‘real’ world
• Participants will be able to observe current work through a visual presentation
• Participants will discover appropriate (to the workshop) contemporary work happening in the ‘real’ world
• Participants will explore process and project questions through public discussion after the lecture