Jana Revedin

Jana Revedin, Prof. Arch. PhD, born 1965 in Constance (D), studied architecture and urban planning in Buenos Aires, Princeton and Milan and taught at the University of Venice where she submitted her doctorate on the role of public space in the development of a democratic civic identity. The UNESCO sustainability expert is a full professor for architecture and design at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. In her work as the UNESCO delegate on the research and teaching commission of the International Union of Architects (UIA) she campaigns for a paradigm change in the self-image of her profession. Alongside her internationally award-winning architectural and urban design projects Jana Revedin devotes herself to the support of and networking among pioneers and groundbreaking talents in the area of sustainable design: In 2005 the European Commission appointed her to lead the first student competition for sustainable architecture (gau:di), whose winners she then exhibited at the Biennale in Venice. In 2007 she established the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture™, which is awarded annually to five architect colleagues and in 2009 she established the non-profit LOCUS Foundation, which supports research into sustainable design processes and tests these in experimental urban renewal projects. The winner of the 2014 UN Habitat prize and the award for “teaching excellence” from Europe’s universities of urban planning, a French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and the author of standard works in the area of sustainable architecture Jana Revedin researches her “radicant” participatory design theory while using such interdisciplinary self-development concepts as her “Light for the Slums” project in Cairo to show how design “with the people by the people” is both feasible and scalable.


Awards and Recognitions


Present employment

Previous employment and experience

Degrees and Education

Research projects and Grants

Member of Scientific Committees

Scientific Jury European Architecture Prize Philippe Rotthier Brussels
Research Council of the Superscape Urban Design Award, City of Vienna/Architekturzentrum
Research Council of the Blue Award on Sustainable Architecture TU Vienna
GdF SUEZ Urban Strategy and Innovation Council Paris
Scientific Board EFAP Urban Intergroup, European Metropolis Brussels
Scientific Jury UIA International Union of Architects COP 15 Open Forum and Student Workshop Copenhagen
Scientific Board Blue in Architecture IUAV University Venice

Supervision

Jana Revedin is member in examining committees for doctoral dissertations at IUAV Venice since 2007, at University of Klagenfurt since 2010, at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology since 2011, at Lund University and Blekinge Institute of Technology since 2012, at ENSA Paris La Villette since 2014, at EPFL Lausanne since 2015. She is at present supervising Master Thesis works and leading PhD Dissertations on sustainable design and participatory processes in architecture and urban planning in France, Sweden, Switzerland, US and Egypt.

Monographs


Revedin publishes regularly in EcologiK, d´Architecture, konstruktiv, Architektur aktuell, Bauwelt. She is a required key speaker at symposiums on sustainable development, participative cross-disciplinary processes and interactive pedagogy. She lectures in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.

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