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a civic learning platform for rebuilding, education, and public life.
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What Is Being Supported
Rethinking Rebuilding — Alexandria 2026
A three-day symposium and learning programme at the Library of Alexandria focused on rebuilding as civic, cultural, spatial, and educational renewal.
The Rethinking X Series
A recurring platform where “X” changes according to context and societal urgency: rebuilding, dialogue, equality, access, belonging, climate, or other critical spatial questions.
3
Days of Learning
at a public symposium and learning programme.
7 000+
People Reached
Through public participation, youth learning, documentation, open resources, and partner dissemination.
500
Public Participants
Expected audience across keynotes, conversations, performance, and public dialogue.
2 000+
Young People
By training educators, students, and local partners to carry the methods forward through schools, workshops, peer learning, and open educational resources.
The Partnership Logic
The Problem. Our Approach. The Impact.
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The Problem
Rebuilding is too often treated as physical reconstruction alone. But societies emerging from conflict, displacement, or civic fragmentation also need to rebuild trust, learning, memory, participation, and shared public life.
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Our Approach
The Rethinking X Series combines public dialogue, practical learning, cultural exchange, embodied methods, and applied case studies. It turns urgent spatial questions into civic learning programmes.
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The Impact
Students, educators, institutions, and civic actors gain methods, examples, networks, and open resources that can be used beyond the symposium itself.
Programme
Rebuilding is not only a technical task. It is a civic one.
When communities face rupture, loss, displacement, or mistrust, rebuilding cannot be reduced to buildings and infrastructure alone. Societies also need to rebuild the conditions that make public life possible: trust, shared memory, education, dignity, participation, and the ability to imagine a common future.
Architecture, design, public art, and education can contribute to this work. Not by replacing political, humanitarian, or local processes, but by creating spaces, methods, and encounters where people can learn, listen, participate, and see themselves as part of a shared civic project.
Rethinking Rebuilding is built on this premise. It treats rebuilding as a cultural, spatial, and educational process — one that begins with people, place, and the relationships between them.
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Public Civic Programme
Keynotes, conversations, public dialogue, and performance exploring rebuilding as civic and cultural renewal. This part of the programme is designed for public audiences, institutions, students, practitioners, and civil society.
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Learning Programme
Masterclasses, embodied learning labs, and student/educator exchange. Participants work through spatial, cultural, and human questions using methods from architecture, design, movement, language, and dialogue.
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Continuity and Legacy
Documentation, film, open learning resources, and future replication. The aim is not only to host an event, but to create material that can be shared, taught, adapted, and used by others.
Why Snøhetta Foundation
The Snøhetta Foundation works upstream of construction: through education, public knowledge, spatial literacy, and cultural exchange.
Rethinking Rebuilding builds on Snøhetta’s long experience with civic and cultural architecture, while operating as an independent foundation dedicated to learning, dialogue, and public benefit.
Ways to Support
Philanthropic support can be directed toward the Alexandria 2026 edition, or toward the wider Rethinking X Series as a long-term civic and educational platform. Support for Rethinking Rebuilding helps realise the public programme, learning activities, documentation, and open resources connected to Alexandria.
Support for the Rethinking X Series helps build the model behind the programme: future editions, partner development, learning formats, documentation methods, digital resources, and the long-term infrastructure needed to make the work replicable.
The levels below are intended as guidance and can be adapted to donor priorities and the final programme budget.
Your support can fund concrete parts of the programme.
Support can be shaped around the donor’s priorities while contributing to the programme’s shared purpose: making civic learning, cultural exchange, and rebuilding knowledge accessible beyond the symposium itself.
Public Programme Support
Supports keynotes, public conversations, moderation, performance, venue-related costs, interpretation, audience access, and public communication.
Learning Programme Support
Supports masterclasses, embodied learning labs, student and educator exchange, facilitation, materials, and curriculum development.
Student and Educator Access
Supports participation for students, young professionals, educators, and contributors who would otherwise not have access to the programme.
Documentation and Film
Supports photography, film, interviews, editing, written documentation, and dissemination of the programme’s ideas and methods.
Open Learning Resources
Supports the transformation of the programme into shareable teaching material, digital resources, toolkits, and future replication formats.
Programme Infrastructure
Supports production, coordination, travel logistics, local partnerships, communication, reporting, and the careful administration needed to deliver the programme responsibly.
Rethinking X Series Development
Supports the long-term development of the Rethinking X Series, including future edition planning, partner development, documentation methods, digital resources, and the adaptation of learning formats across contexts.