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Given the complex challenges for designers in respect of climate, biodiversity and demography, collaboration has become an increasingly important factor in the creation of design and delivery teams, and the way they are managed. What lessons have Surban Jurong, a multi-disciplinary international practice, learned in recent years?

Speaker - Patrick Fejér, Chief Executive Officer, B+H Architects

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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Buildings and the built environment are designed and constructed according to measurable, quantifiable and gradable standards, yet a community’s interaction with their environment is not measured, or indeed measurable in this way. From Le Corbusier's 'Ineffable space' to Louis Kahn's 'Unmeasurable' criteria for great buildings, we continue this architectural pursuit to connect the intangible with the most urgent tangibles of contemporary everyday lives. We look to ask if architecture and design can move the needle on the public’s sense of agency, attachment, attraction, connection, freedom and inclusion.

Speakers -

Ar. Adrian Lai, Council Member, Singapore Institute of Architects

Isabella Ong, Artist and Technical Build

Ar. Ker How Wong, Council Member, Singapore Institute of Architects

Chair - Jeremy Melvin, Programme Curator, World Architecture Festival (Speaker introduction)

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As an industry we have focussed for decades on reducing operational carbon in our buildings and the tools and methods are well understood. But what does the reduction in CO2 emissions from our power grid mean for our processes and the way we design our buildings and is it a catalyst for a different way of thinking? Do we need to rethink and assess things differently? How do we catalyse a change to a future where we look beyond being less bad and start to think in terms of the regeneration of our environment.

Speaker - Patrick Bellew, Founder and Executive Chairman, Atelier Ten

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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A panel discussion on The Drawing Prize

Speakers -

Lily Jencks, Keeper of Vision at The Cosmic House, The Jencks Foundation

Ken Shuttleworth, Founder, Make Architects

Eldry John Infante, Registered and Licensed Architect, Illustrator, Mede Architecture

Eugene Tan, Architectural Graduate, Park + Associates

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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There is a clear urgency to redesign cities in the face of fast-growing global urban population, urban sprawl and climate change to prioritise nature conservation, human livability and human progress. In response, the Urban Planning team at NEOM has pioneered Zero Gravity Urbanism - a three-dimensional urban idea underpinning THE LINE - which provides a robust alternative to our currently failing urban models. 

Zero Gravity Urbanism, developed around the work of globally recognized architects and urban thinkers, demonstrates its capacity for a radically smaller footprint, a substantially stronger social fabric and robust model for human exchange, establishing the foundation of a new livability. Some of the ideas, innovations and technologies behind Zero Gravity Urbanism are a point of departure for rethinking our prevailing ideas of a city or human habitat. THE LINE in NEOM is an example that begins to put in motion these ideas in an environment powered 100% by renewable energy, with zero cars, zero roads and zero carbon emissions.

Speaker - Sarah Fayad, Manager in Design, Research, and Innovation, NEOM Urban Planning

Chair - Jeremy Melvin, Programme Curator, World Architecture Festival

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Housing affordability around the world has reached a crisis point. Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization and an accelerating environmental emergency, we need solutions for city building that are more socially and economically sustainable, as well as multi-family housing that is more equitable and livable. 

5468796's new publication explores the missing middle housing in its many forms and ownership models, from refugee and social housing to market-rate condominiums. Provoked by discussions that took place at a symposium they organized while teaching at the IIT in Chicago 2019, this four-volume publication [MIDDLE, MACRO, MICRO, MODELLING] expands on this hands-on research working with challenging economic and environmental circumstances, using the firm’s built works, concept masterplans and community projects as the foundations to present a ‘toolkit’ of strategies for high- quality attainable, accessible and affordable housing. It will be released with Arquine in October 2023.

The session will consist of presentation by partners Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Trevor Boddy.

Speakers - Johanna Hurme, Partner, Co-Founder, 5468796 Architecture Inc.

Sasa Radulovic, Partner, 5468796 Architecture Inc.

Chair - Trevor Boddy, Architecture Critic + Curator, Trevor Body Consulting Urban Designer

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Mario Cucinella’s forthcoming talk "The Future is a Journey to the Past", will explore past and present notions of sustainability to develop the ecological thinking necessary to bridge the divide between the natural world and human activity – including, of course, architecture. Architectural history, in all its richness, becomes a relevant source of inspiration to educate us about our sustainable past while providing us with tools to become future guardians of the global environment.

A selection of projects by Mario Cucinella Architects that contribute to exploring these themes from a contemporary viewpoint and with an eye towards our future challenges will be presented. These include recent works in major cities like Milan but also in much smaller communities in Italian towns and villages demonstrating the positive impact and potential for regeneration and renewal that a single building can have in these settings.

Speaker - Mario Cucinella, Founder, MCA Mario Cucinella Architects

Chair - Jeremy Melvin, Programme Curator, World Architecture Festival

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Following the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake in February, Türkiye Design Council is spearheading the design-led revitalisation of Hatay and Adıyaman in Türkiye’s southeast. With a rare example for large-scale international collaboration, Türkiye Design Council has convened a group of leading experts in architecture, design, engineering, environmental sustainability, culture, heritage and archaeology, to contribute their expertise to the reimagining of one of the world’s most ancient places. This includes masterplanners Foster + Partners, as well as Bjarke Ingels Group and renowned Turkish practices DB Architects and KEYM (Urban Renewal Center). Collectively they are working towards a vision for the next era of Hatay and Adiyaman that ensures it is resilient, sustainable and liveable for generations to come, while preserving its 2,300-year-old cultural heritage and identity. Through this process, Türkiye Design Council aims to share its experience by forming a new international model for collaboration that can be transferable to support other cities that need design and planning support after disasters, and which engages the global design community alongside local people.

Speakers - Mehmet Kalyoncu, Chairman and Founder, Türkiye Design Council

Loukia Iliopoulou, Partner, Foster + Partners

Cem Yılmaz, Founding Partner, Keym Urban Renewal Center

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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Singapore transformation is built upon housing, parks and renewal. Going forward we need to include Super Connectors. From Settlements to Towns to Cities to Conurbations one can see changes exerted by density. Growth generated by modern economy, society, politics, culture, transportation, science and technology are powerful. Don‘t forget Super Connectors. Extreme Density is a modern phenomenon via Urbanisation. Slums and Ghost Towns appeared also. Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Concepts reacted to the squalors of Industrialisation in England. Independent Singapore adopted New Towns and Condominiums to modernise. China transformed their villages through SEZs (Special Economic Zones). The next phase of growth faces big challenges: need a New Catalyst. In Singapore, Public housing and Private housing are well established. In China, originally villagers and Government were the developers. Now it’s in the hands of the Property Market. Settlements sent Primitive Man Neighbors and “Security”; Towns brought him trade and density. High rise gave Modern Man fresh air plus Views and Prosperity today. Finally, density means Wealth, so Cities get larger and denser. We must learn to Survive or get Suffocated. Today, Cities, rich or poor urgently need help from Super Connectors.

Speaker - Cheng Siong Tan, Chairman, Archurban Architects Planners Pte Ltd

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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Charu Kokate of Safdie Architects will delve into what drives a successful architecture practice for the WAF opening keynote. She will discuss transformative projects she has been intimately involved with, including the iconic Marina Bay Sands and its future phase; Jewel Changi Airport, which has redefined the airport experience; and the soon to be completed Surbana Jurong Headquarters, which pushes the campus beyond a traditional workplace. She will share insights gained over a notable 20+-year career.

Speaker: Charu Kokate, Senior Partner/Director, Safdie Architects

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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LECTURE 

Resilient Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Issa Diabaté, Partner, Koffi & Diabaté Architects

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.

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Business Stream - Delivery Part Two

Exploring and understanding the business of architecture 

Tadahiko Murao, Executive Officer, Nikken Sekkei 

Jan Henckens, Senior Manager, Global Business Development Management Department, Nikken Sekkei Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

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Hospitals: An Evolving Typology

With the COVID 19 pandemic raging around the world, health design is at the forefront of many people's minds, whether or not they are in the health field. While we've seen paradigm shifts and pivots in healthcare in the past, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is so significant - we believe we will see a true global transformation of health design as a result. Hospitals will evolve their operations due to the pandemic and other changing global conditions and so, a typological evolution must continue to occur in hospital design. Jean Mah and Ralph Johnson will discuss the historical evolution of the modern hospital, the current state of the art of hospital design with case studies from their current work, and how the hospital typology might continue to evolve in the future. 

Ralph Johnson, Global Design Director, Perkins + Will

Jean Mah, Principal - Health, Perkins + Will

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.

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Business Stream - Nurturing and Developing Talent: 

Exploring and understanding the business of architecture 

Kim Herforth Nielsen, Co-Founder & Principal, 3XN Architects

James von Klemperer, President & Design Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Tracy Meller, Partner, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners 

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.

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Post Covid Shopping: Retail Reloaded

Laurie Chetwood will be looking at how the current challenges facing the High Street are an opportunity for designers to participate in repurposing redundant town and city centres. He will discuss how not only high street buildings, but also urban infrastructure systems are being repurposed. Logistics is no longer just a big box on the side of the motorway keeping the rain off stored goods but is evolving into urban logistics: an integral part of a repurposed urban supply chain, and the driving force behind the new social and community-focused experiential retail.

Laurie Chetwood, Chairman, Chetwoods Architects

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.

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Thinkspace

Design, the Environment & Public Health

Professor Nick Tyler, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering |Director, UCL Centre for Transport Studies

Professor Allyson Pollock, Director, Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science

Sandy Nairne, Writer & Curator

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

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WAF Keynote: Prototypes for the Future

We live in extraordinary times and, in many ways, the challenges facing cities, cultures and the planet have never been greater. Some have speculated that the global COVID pandemic is merely first tremors of a vast shockwave brought on by environmental decline, failed socio-economic policy and cynical political manipulation. Perhaps more than ever before, the need for reconsidering the fundamental values, agendas and possibilities of architecture and urbanism is clear. We must begin to imagine fundamentally new questions and trajectories that go beyond the lifeless, recycled formalisms, neoDarwinian ethics and vacant marketing-speech—we must begin to answer the question of how can we, as architects, work towards a living future for our spaces, societies and species? In this talk, Ole Scheeren, Principal of international architectural practice Buro Ole Scheeren, will explore the role of this question in the work of the office and how the search for an answer has informed the development of several of the office's unprecedented and city-defining structures.

Ole Scheeren, Principal, Büro Ole Scheeren

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Business Stream - Delivery Part One

The Business of Architecture: Project Managing Art

The business of architecture is often a struggle between the designers who want to design and the managers who want to manage. Astute project delivery planning can turn this clash into a workable dynamic, centered on common goals of quality, responsibility, and service to the client—a way to manage expectations but produce something meaningful. Honing project management to find a balance between artistic achievement and prudent oversight will help businesses make money and strive for excellence.

Dean Kaardal, Vice President, Regional Business Leader - Buildings, Canada West, Stantec

Robin Nicholson, Partner, Cullinan Studio

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded live at WAFVirtual 2020.

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Post Covid Schools: How the Pandemic can Lead to Better Schools

Following on from alma-nac's publication 'Simple Solutions for Safer Schools' Chris will be talking about some of the ways schools in England are being innovative in dealing with Covid restrictions. He will also reflect on how positive lessons learnt from the pandemic can influence school design in the future.

Chris Bryant, Director, alma-nac 

Melanie Mortimer, Head of Design Technology, Dulwich Prep London

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

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Business Stream - Winning Work

The ability to win work in our hypercompetitive, post-Covid world is a skill architects need now more than ever. This session will focus on the criteria that clients, in all sectors, consider most significant, and ways you can make your firm stand out.

Susanna Sirefman, President, Dovetail Design Strategists

Lee Polisano, President, PLP Architecture 

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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Business Stream - Insurance

Professional Indemnity in 2021: Crisis, Cyclical Change or Chance to Reset?

Paul Berg, Partner | Group Director, Professional Risks, Griffiths & Armour

Jonathan Hall, Director, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris 

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

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In Conversation With Sir David Adjaye

Join Paul Finch for a live conversation with celebrated Ghanaian-British architect; Sir David Adjaye who has achieved international acclaim for an exceptional body of work over 25 years of practice

Sir David Adjaye, Founder & Principal, Adjaye Associates

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

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Post Covid Homes: The Self-Sufficient City for Post-Covid Life

This lecture will present a new generation of housing projects designed to fight both the health and climate crisis we face. Guallart will present the Xiong'an project recently awarded that includes four self-sufficient blocks and will also share details of a project for Biocities in Africa.

Vicente Guallart, Founder, Guallart Architects

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

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Inside Keynote Lecture: Insights into Healthy Interiors

In light of the challenges society is facing, UNStudio’s founder Ben van Berkel, will present on the integral and human-centric approach to health, flexibility and technology in their work. Designing healthy interiors requires thinking about the relation between different scales. UNStudio has produced a wide range of work, from public buildings to infrastructure, offices to residential as well as interiors and products to urban master plans. With their focus distinctly placed on the future, in 2018 the practice founded a sister company, UNSense, an arch tech company that aims to create impact by developing technology and innovative solutions that improve quality of life for individuals, communities and the planet. 

Ben van Berkel, Founder | Principal Architect, UNStudio & Founder UNSense

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.

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Jeanne Gang Keynote Talk

Jeanne Gang, Founding Principal, Studio Gang

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This session was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

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International Question Time, pt. 2

Discussion session of major WAF past contributors – dealing with the major issues of the day

Maria Warner Wong, Design Director, Warner Wong Design and WOW Architects

Patrick Bellew, Founding Director, Atelier Ten

Christoph Ingenhoven, Principal, Ingenhoven Architects

Jo Noero, Principal, Noero Architects

Simon Allford, Founding Director, AHMM | President Elect, RIBA

Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director, Alison Brooks Architects

Benedetta Tagliabue, Co-Founder & CEO Miralles Tagliabue EMBT | Founder & CEO Enric Miralles Foundation

Chairs: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

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Post Covid Workplace: Space-Time Office

Andrew Chadwick, Principal, Chadwick International 

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

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International Question Time

Discussion session dealing with the major issues of the day from an international perspective

Ken Tadashi Oshima, Professor Department of Architecture, University of Washington

Frances Anderton, Host | Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

Monica von Schmalensee, Senior Partner & Architect, White Arkitekter

Chairs: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

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Panel discussion: The sustainably use of timber in construction. Brought to you by the Forest Stewardship Council

Chair: Hattie Hartman, Sustainability Editor for the Architects’ Journal

Panel members:

Jeremy Harrison, Forest Stewardship Council

Misak Terzibasiyan, UAArchitects

Giacomo Garziano, GGLoop Amsterdam

The episode was recorded at WAF 2019.

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WAF Keynote

Elizabeth Diller, Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAF 2019.

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Massimiliano Fuksas, Co-Founder, Studio Fuksas: WAF Keynote

Massimiliano Fuksas, Co-Founder, Studio Fuksas

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAF 2019.

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Open Building: A Future Perspective on Habraken’s Heritage

Marc Koehler’s term as the Architect in Residence at the Architectuur Centrum Amsterdam is drawing to a close in December, concluding a period of three months of studying new initiatives according to the principles of John Habraken’s Open Building.

Architect and academic Habraken composed the first guidelines of Open Building in the sixties: he described ways to compose buildings with a multipurpose structure and flexible infill, to address the different wishes and needs of inhabitants.

As co-initiator of a new online platform featuring current developments in Open Building - developers, architects, and inhabitants - Marc will present an overview of new initiatives and projects. He will elaborate on three themes: Open Architecture, Open Development, and Open Systems, and connect the principles of Open Building to new ways to incorporate circularity, sustainability and the influence of individuals and communities into residential projects.

Marc Koehler, Principal, Marc Koehler Architects

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAF 2019.

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Identity: Towards A Reflexive Regionalist Practice of Architecture

Li Xiaodong, Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University.

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

I have no intention here to promote the ‘form’ as a blueprint. It, at most, opens up possibilities. This is why that I dare not to use the word “contemporary Chinese architecture” to describe my practice, but “reflexive regionalist architecture”. Here, to be “reflexive” as in ‘dialogue with’ a situation, through which, an objective understanding of the situation could be established; to be “regional” is here different from the ‘picturesque’ or, ‘iconic’ regionalist architecture (by which, architecture was understood as a tool to demonstrate a cultural presence as a fixed entity), what I have been proposing is to understand the “regional” as comprehensive, dynamic and sustainable ‘condition’ of place – a tabula rasa, that solutions could be based on and emerged from.

This episode was recorded at WAF 2018.

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Beyond Binary

Jeanne Gang, Founding Principal, Studio Gang

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Many of our inherited binary notions of identity—female/male, nature/city, wild/tame—continue to influence architecture and urban design, though science and culture increasingly demonstrate their limits. How can our model of the city evolve when we think beyond oppositional relationships and focus instead on connecting for mutual benefit?

This episode was recorded at WAF 2018.

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Mecanoo, the Asia experience.

Francine Houben, Founding Partner and Creative Director, Mecanoo 

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Exploring the recently opened projects such as the Kaohsiung National Center for the Arts (Wei Wu Ying), Kaohsiung station and the work which is still in progress such as the Tainan public library.

This episode was recorded at WAF 2018.

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WAF Keynote

Sir David Adjaye, Principal, Adjaye Associates

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAF 2018.

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Rafael Vinoly, Founder, Rafael Vinoly Architects

•RV is a former super-jury chair and keynote speaker at WAF.

•How does the concept of performance apply in his varied work?

•How does projects range from the Tokyo Forum complex include a temporary mobile performance space he is designing in Berlin

This episode was recorded at WAF 2017.

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Pierre de Meuron, Founding Partner, Herzog & de Meuron, and Charles Jencks, Architecture Critic and Theorist

•Critic Charles Jencks will present the recently completed Elbphilharmone in Hamburg; Pierre de Meuron will respond to the presentation in a ‘performance’ where the role of critic and architect are reversed

This episode was recorded at WAF 2017.

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Mathias Kohler, Co-Founder, Gramazio Kohler Architects

•How will robotics affect the performance of the construction industry?

•What are the implications of greater automation for architectural practice?

•What design activities could be replaced by machines?

This episode was recorded at WAF 2017.

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Louisa Hutton, Founding Partner, Sauerbruch Hutton

This keynote was recorded at WAF 2017.

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Francis Kéré, Principal and Founder, Kéré Architecture

This episode was recorded at WAF 2017.

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After the fall of the Berlin Wall there was a belief that a vision for Berlin could provide a model for new world cities and stage for new world citizens. How has the energy and ambition of so many contributors to this idea given life to the city that exists today?

This episode was recorded at WAF 2016.

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Contrary to popular belief, many of the luxuries commonly associated with high end residential developments are no longer limited to the affluent alone. A growing consciousness of all things beneficial to health and happiness is resulting in a trickling down effect and a widespread societal demand for healthy living environments. Today’s residents want convenient shared amenities which encourage a sense of community and promote physical and psychological wellbeing. On the one hand we are witnessing the global development of big data and smart cities, while on the other there is call for ‘social cities’ with a more creative mix of work, welfare, active leisure and community sharing. Health and wellbeing have recently evolved from a seemingly universal social right, to the responsibility of the individual. From experiments in human gene-editing and biohacking, to increased demand for affordable fresh and healthy produce for all, a new egalitarian ideal is emerging which increasingly renders the exclusive, inclusive.

This episode was recorded at WAF 2016.

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How have population movements, demographic shifts and lifestyle trends informed how we live collectively and as individuals? How has this impacted on the function, design and servicing of dwellings today and how will these factors affect the housing, and life, of tomorrow.

This episode was recorded at WAF 2016.

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Discussion of housing is currently based on politics, migration, urbanisation, new cities and numbers. What has happened to consideration of this building type as architecture, and what lessons could we draw from the work of Zaha Hadid Architects in Berlin and across the world?

This episode was recorded at WAF 2016.

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Nutters of the North

Prof Sir Peter Cook, Architect, Professor and Writer

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

Invention and creativity inspired by the backdrop of the North Sea. This session will look at UK, Netherlands, Nordic, Baltic and Belgium architecture from the nineteenth century up to today.

This episode was recorded at WAF 2018.

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Four leading women architects share their personal experiences and discuss the challenges and opportunities facing women in the global profession.

Women In Architecture at WAF 2015 in association with The Architectural Review

Julie Eizenberg, Principal, Koning Eizenberg

Gonca Pasolar, Partner, Emre Arolat Architects

Angelene Chan, CEO, DP Architects

Chaired by Christine Murray, Editor-in-chief, The Architectural Review

This episode was recorded at WAF 2015.

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Charles Jencks, Author, Critic, Sculptor and Landscape Architect

Topic: On Singapore and its lessons for world architecture

Fifty years of growth, transformation and experimentation.

This episode was recorded at WAF 2015

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Topic: Calmer Singapore

· Enhancing the quality of life in a tropical climate with high-density urban living

· Addressing the problem of heat and noise pollution as anthropogenic effects

· Developing a fundamentally new bottom-up analysis/design scenario approach

· Understanding the key to cooler, calmer and more liveable cities

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt, ETH Zurich, Chair of Information Architecture, Singapore ETH Centre and Senior Vice President ETH Global

This episode was recorded at WAF 2015

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Topic: The evolution of public space

· What is the future for public space in an age of social media and virtual relationships?

· Public access to private buildings: balancing ownership, access and control

· Exploring new ways of introducing public space at height

· The ambiguity of public space - what is the point of the town hall?

· Differentiating public space and public realm

David Green, Urban Design Leader, Principal, Perkins+Will

This episode was recorded at WAF 2015.

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