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

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WAF 2019 Winner: Completed Building: Production Energy and Recycling
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners - The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience, Craigellachie, United Kingdom 
Learn more about the project here: https://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/entries/the-macallan-distillery-and-visitor-experience/

WAF 2019 Winner: Completed Building: Production Energy and Recycling

Andrew Whalley, Chairman, Grimshaw: ZERO

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The ‘flow’ of Architecture in the Anthropocene is one of increasing acceleration. An exponential level of development is destroying the range of key planetary characteristics of Earth that enable it to support Homo sapiens and a whole range of other species. 

The United Nations has categorically stated that the only way forward is a rapid deployment of energy-efficient and low-carbon building designs. Along with the inclusion of intelligent operational systems, construction will need to be optimized and natural resources reconsidered. 

In 1961, President Kennedy committed the US to, within a decade, send a man to the moon and bring him back safely to earth. It was an unprecedented technical goal bordering on insurmountable. In 2019, over the next decade we need to set ourselves an even more ambitious target for the built environment. We need to increase the number of high-performance, low carbon buildings by six-fold from the current trend. To reach that milestone, near zero energy, zero emission buildings must become the construction standard globally by 2030. Only then will we be able to appropriately limit rising global temperatures.

A performative design approach that searches for optimized solutions is the critical and only way forward. This must be our generation’s ‘moonshot’ moment.

Andrew Whalley, Chairman, Grimshaw

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Andrew Whalley, Chairman, Grimshaw: ZERO

Nigel Coates, Director, Nigel Coates: INSIDE Keynote - The Flow of Ideas

For me spontaneity in design ensures the vitality of the outcome. But if I look back over decades of drawing and making, a handful of themes pop up repeatedly, often appearing when I least expect them. For example, confounding scale, meddling with time and organising space in spirals. These recurrences are like ticks, or stubborn musical phrases, albeit ones that carry my creative DNA.

Nigel Coates, Director, Nigel Coates

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Nigel Coates, Director, Nigel Coates: INSIDE Keynote - The Flow of Ideas

The World of Data: The Architecture of Instant Information

To fully grasp the impact of the new data revolution, it is worth taking a holistic view of Industry 4.0. Previous revolutions were erratically distributed across the world, with change taking years or decades before affecting communities. 
In today’s industrial revolution we have almost instantaneous knowledge-driven dissemination. This is a socio-technological phenomenon with effects yet to be understood and, needless to say, controlled. It is expected that the fourth industrial revolution will transform the world with a far higher speed, scope and impact than any previous technological revolution we have experienced.
In this presentation, Dr Abel Maciel discusses the new data revolution and how it is set to disrupt how we create, sustain and transform our built environment.

Abel Maciel, Principal, Design Computation

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

Abel Maciel, The World of Data: The Architecture of Instant Information

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

Marc Koehler Keynote - Open Building: A Future Perspective on Habraken’s Heritage

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

Massimiliano Fuksas, Co-Founder, Studio Fuksas

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

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

WAF Keynote

Elizabeth Diller, Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

Elizabeth Diller, Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro: WAF Keynote

Jeddah Metro - Building a Sustainable Vision for Infrastructure

By taking a long-term, sustainable approach, which anticipates growth well into the next century, the vision for Jeddah’s transport network includes the design of metro, tram, ferry, bus, cycle, park and ride systems, as well as new bridges, public spaces, energy infrastructure and nodes of development.  
 
Angus Campbell’s talk will outline the practice’s innovative approach, using the project as a catalyst to create new public spaces from linear parks to sports facilities, as well as a new network of data, energy and communications, allowing the metro system to become an integral part of the city’s infrastructural spine. He will also discuss how infrastructural development can be underpinned by environmental and economic sustainability by promoting densification and strategic planning that leverages future land values to fund such projects, while also drawing on lessons from history and local culture with an aim to create a diverse and vibrant city.

Angus Campbell, Senior Partner & Deputy Head of Studio, Foster + Partners

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

Angus Campbell, Jeddah Metro - Building a Sustainable Vision for Infrastructure

There are two waters in design. The first is somewhere in flows and gatherings: in rivers, oceans, channels, pipes, reservoirs and lakes. The second water is everywhere, a ubiquitous wetness that does not necessarily flow. It precipitates, soaks, seeps, osmotes, and evaporates in ways that defy delineation. If the first water is in a crisis today with rising seas, melting glaciers, increasing floods, pollution, and scarcity, the second holds a way forward for design. 

Anuradha Mathur, Professor, Landscape Architecture,
School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Dilip da Cunha, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Chair: Andreas Enslin, Head of Design, Miele

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha: What We Learn from Water

Maximising flow efficiency is a key driver in all Dyson products, and it’s not just about air.
The performance of our Vacuum Cleaners, Hairdryers, Purifiers and Hand Dryers is highly dependent on how efficiently we can generate and manipulate airflow, as well as managing the flow of electrons, and in many cases, the flow of heat. Fortunately, there are some basic design principles to help us, many of which seem to have interesting parallels in other areas of design, including aspects of architecture.

Ben Morse, Head of Engineering for Personal Care, Dyson

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Ben Morse, Head of Engineering for Personal Care, Dyson: Designing with Flow

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