Panel Discussion

Do you speak Architecture? We are surrounded by architecture – constantly. How can we extend the conversation? The way we communicate is changing. Which role can we play?

Epic Games is excited to announce the next episode of The Pulse—a series of interviews and live Q&As exploring the latest thinking on interactive 3D technology. In episode 6 of The Pulse, join AEC influencer, Fred Mills—together with Salla Pallos of Microsoft, Tim Johnson of Buildmedia, and David Weir-McCall of Epic Games—to talk about the fast-growing world of digital twins and their impact on the future of architecture, engineering and construction.

The mission and aim of the Thinking Hand NGO Talk Series is to empower and educate people, and especially students. Talk series will be on various topics starting from (Questioning Why? How? What?) Architecture, Design, Landscape, Environment, Thesis, Theory, Practice, Sustainability and more.

Ever since the world’s first skyscraper was built here in 1885, Chicago has been a city of tall buildings. As its skyline has changed it has inspired other cities around the world to pursue high-rise solutions of their own.

Join us for a discussion with architects Alfredo Brillembourg (Urban-Think Tank) and Yasmeen Lari about making better cities accessible to the many people, to celebrate the worldwide release of our new book with gestalten, The Ideal City.

Exploring urban cultural ecologies, systems and new spatial practices - from one form to another.

Join d.talks in conversation with K. Jake Chakasim and Neena Verma on diaspora and belonging.

See the discussion panel "Designing happiness" with our special guests.
Extraordinary discussion panel on the need that continues to be the same in our constantly changing world - i.e. the thing called “happiness”. We will be trying to find out if compromises in “happines” planning limit the creative process and its actual final result, and if our personal wellbeing-oriented choices affect business relations. We will talk about planning space in the personal life based on non-negotiable values. About culture, good habits, golden rules that help design space that facilitates building one’s happiness, and individual responsibility for turning that project into reality.

Inspired by the events that were unraveling in summer 2020, and acknowledging the fact that as architects and urban designers, we are stewards of public space, Urban Design committee in partnership with AIA|DC & Equity Committee by WIELD launched a design competition titled -
POLITICS, PROTESTS + PLACE - The Role of Inclusion Urbanism in Civic Activism.

Join us on Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 for the announcement of the winners of the CBDX: CITIES FOR ALL International Design Ideas Competition.

The COVID-19 pandemic puts health and safety in homes and workplaces to the test. Improved ventilation and sanitation have taken on special urgency among the many performance aspects of building design. ESD Global executive chairman Raj Gupta and International WELL Building Institute president and CEO Rachel Hodgdon will present examples of office towers being adapted for safe re-occupancy, such as Chicago’s 150 North Riverside, and explain the growing use and relevance of the WELL Building Standard (a certification akin to LEED for energy efficiency) in the healthy buildings movement. Chicago Architecture Center President and CEO Lynn Osmond moderates a discussion to follow, during which speakers will delve into the challenges and opportunities of implementation and competitive advantages for healthy buildings. What will it take to transform our work environments?

We’re excited to invite you to Danish Desire, our virtual event presented by The Royal Danish Consulate General and TORP, at DesignTO Festival, Saturday, January 23 from 2pm-3pm. Our panel of leading Danish and Canadian designers, makers and educators will be discussing the ongoing success of Danish Design, Denmark’s rich design history, and how a culture deeply immersed in and supportive of design positively affects design outcomes.⁠
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Register today at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1016105024546/WN_V2wJTYPEReq79TEke5Ls9A⁠

The cumulative effects of agriculture, industrialization, and urbanization are unequivocally changing our climate and producing globally unprecedented challenges related to food production, building materials, and human and ecosystem health, and exacerbating conditions that promote the spread of pandemic diseases, and these challenges are disproportionately affecting low-income communities and communities of color. This is not new. Our built environments create impacts on all of the above forces, and play a critical role in the creation of, and potential dismantling of, inequitable conditions of living and human and ecosystem health. How do we as designers of buildings and cities contribute to climate change and its deeply-rooted, systemic impacts, and what can we do now to turn our impact positive? How do we recognize, through our planning and building processes, the links between human health in our communities, particularly in communities of color, and the health of the planet and its ecosystems? How do we designing for climate justice, carbon neutrality, and equitable impact of positive change? And how do we reform our pedagogical approaches in our academies to ensure equitable climate considerations “go without saying”?

The Equity Matters II Leadership Summit, a panel on reimagining campuses to ensure inclusive resiliency after the pandemic, will tackle these significant challenges facing university and college campuses. The open dialogue will culminate in third program in summer 2021 and a new study to be published next year.

We became architects to conceptualize, to design, to create. But too much of our time is spent searching for products, organizing details and writing specifications. Technology has provided tremendous improvements to the design process, but beyond digitizing all those binders, it has provided little advancement to product sourcing.

Graduate Studio: Alejandro Zaera-Polo

On 25 November, 10am CET, OMA, Hassell, WA Museum Boola Bardip, and the Netherlands embassy in Canberra will join a panel discussion with a focus on the architecture of the Museum.

Join the Boston Society for Architecture for a virtual conversation series as a part of the upcoming exhibition, Future-Decker. The series will feature discussions with residents, architects, designers, and other practitioners as they share and learn from one other about the past, present, and future of the iconic building type: the three decker.