Building on the success of our previous NextGen On the Spot events, we would like to invite you to the next one on the series, this time led by Francisco Hernández, Founder and CEO at Menhir. Menhir has developed an AI algorithm that distributes default loans and real estate assets to the best disinvestment channel.
Pandemic, economic crisis, migration and climate change: every area –from the periphery of our metropolis to the most remote tropical village– can now be defined as an "emergency context". The United Nations –already before the pandemic cycle– estimated that the fragmentation of conflicts, combined with the effects of the economic and ecological crisis, was generating a humanitarian emergency greater than that caused by the Second World War.
In this context, the architect plays a fundamental role, because architecture responds to man's primary needs. Finding shelter, receiving education, living healthy are rights that require "containers" in the first place, and architecture –great architecture– would be very little if limited to contexts of well-being; since man is at the center of architecture, and man, in any context, in any condition, deserves dignity and beauty.
Building on the success of the previous NextGen On the Spot events, IE School of Architecture and Design and ArchDaily would like to invite you to the next one on the series, this time led by Tom Redmayne, North America Managing Director at WiredScore.
Gerald Babel-Sutter, CEO and Founder at Urban Future Global Conference, Europe's largest event for sustainable cities, will share the story of the Urban Future Global Conference: How it evolved from a local mobility workshop planned for the city of Graz in 2014 to be the meeting place for CityChangers across Europe and beyond, with almost 3000 participants gathering in Oslo in 2019.
