POST OIL CITY | Dar Al-Athar Al Islamiyyah | Kuwait City | 15.10.2017 – 15.12.2017

16.10.2017 Raphael Lafargue, our expert on Outdoor Comfort was at the opening of the exhibition “Post-Oil City: The History of the City’s Future” at the (link: http://darmuseum.org.kw/post-oil-city-history-citys-future/ text: Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah [DAI] ) yesterday. Today he is holding a workshop in Kuwait City. The goal is to explain and demonstrate that outdoor comfort is one of the main ingredients in a successful outdoor space design and acts as a catalyzer for social sustainability. One of Raphael's first outdoor comfort projects was the redevelopment of the famous (link: http://www.transsolar.com/projects/redevelopment-place-de-la-republique text: Place de la Republique) in Paris, which demonstrates this potential change very successfully. (link: http://www.transsolar.com/approach/outdoor-comfort text: > more on Outdoor Comfort) Post-Oil City is an exhibition of the Instituts für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart, in cooperation with ARCH+, Zeitschrift für Architektur und Städtebau, Berlin (link: http://www.ifa.de/en/visual-arts/exhibitions-abroad/architecture/post-oil-city.html text: > official website)