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DigitalFUTURES World: Talks

One Week Series of Free 24/7 Online Workshops and Talks, 27 June to 3 July 2020. There are 30 talks with occurring 3 times each day to cover all the time zones in the world. Topics covering International Practice, AI and Architectural Practice, Reappraising the City, Agency, Borders and Immigration, Architects and Locality, Digital Technologies in the Post-Pandemic Future, The Future of the University, Bio-Futures, Transculturalism: The Space in Between, and many more.

Virtual Exhibition Opening: Museum of Galata

Özyeğin University, 3rd and 4th grade architecture students are sharing their studio projects with a virtual exhibition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual exhibition, organized by students working in Architectural Design Studios run by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alessandro Camiz and Teaching Assist. Özge Özkuvancı, offers the opportunity to explore the studio works by visiting online.

RIBA + VitrA Talks: Atelier Deshaus

Join us for a lecture live-streamed from Shanghai with Liu Yichun, principle of Atelier Deshaus, who will be showing us highlights from the practice’s last 20 years designing iconic educational, cultural and domestic buildings.

DigitalFUTURES World: Workshops

One Week Series of Free 24/7 Online Workshops and Talks, 27 June to 3 July 2020. There are 80 workshops in 5 different languages that take place in 3 major time regions around the world. Topics covering artificial intelligence in Architecture to Design Fiction, Bio Design, AR/VR, Robotic Fabrication and NeuroDesign.

Toronto Society of Architects TSL Virtual Pride Floats

Ready to join a virtual parade? Looking to create new, inventive and unique shared spaces for community and celebration while we all do our part staying home, the Toronto Society of Architects is taking our Pride celebrations to the virtual public realm with a one-of-a-kind design challenge.

The new reality in housing 2020

We know that the world is changing, and this is a moment to reinvent ourselves in the face of an unprecedented situation. The health crisis has compelled us to transform the way we live and interact today.
Office work has been reinvented in response to the need for cultural and digital transformation. Consequently, millions of Mexicans are now working from home—an increasingly common practice that has tested our individual resilience, allowing us to adapt to this new way of working while balancing new responsibilities and activities that promote our performance and well-being.

Isolated Dialogues: "Lockdown, sharing space/space for sharing"

Isolation viewed from different perspectives and disciplines: this is the central theme of the "Isolated Dialogues" series, organized by the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture, which takes place every Wednesday. Participants include artists, architects, designers, musicians, scientists, writers, journalists, and others, both Chilean and international.

Architectural Lessons from a Distance: 4th Lecture - Architecture of Memory

Farhid Maya of Taller Síntesis presents "Architecture of Memory," the fourth virtual lecture in the "Architecture Lessons from a Distance" series. 

Dialogues for Action: Facing the Crisis

Aiming to open a discussion and uncover opportunities for adaptation and resilience, the Association of Architecture Offices is launching a series of conversations that will address various topics relevant to both professional practice and the public and private spheres that shape the city.

The Space We Can Occupy: Short Story Competition

Given our current reality, CoRe aims to channel the experiences and sentiments of this coronavirus-induced quarantine through literary expression. To that end, the organization is launching:

Architects, not Architecture - Virtual Event 02

The current global situation forces us to do all kinds of adjustments and we are seeing this as an opportunity to go out of our comfort zone and try something new. We are going online! This allows us to invite architects from different parts of the world and make it possible for you to get to know them from the “AnA perspective”, no matter where you are located. The first round of events will take place before mid-July. Join us!

Architects, not Architecture - Virtual Event 01

Virtual AnA Event

Next 100 Years Project: Architect Edition

The Next 100 Years Project stands against racism. Because of recent events and civil unrest around the world, the deadline for submissions to the Next 100 Years Project – Architect Edition has been extended to June 28, 2020 at 11:59PM CDT. As before, the Next 100 Years Project invites architects from around the world to envision a hopeful, post-pandemic future for everyone.

Panel Discussion: Finding Joy in Our Public Spaces

Over the past few months, the world has experienced many significant changes and our collective relationship to public spaces is among them. How do we find a new way to exist and share in public space? How do we do that safely? Can we rediscover the joy of our public spaces and build better normal around them?

WriteON 2020 presents: A Listening Session with Dr. Yvonne Poitras Pratt

Join d.talks on June 20 for a virtual Listening Session led by Métis scholar and associate professor, Dr. Yvonne Poitras Pratt. This session is an opportunity to develop an awareness of the narratives and histories that are often untold.

Urban Manifesto: The Future of Placemaking

In this Urban Manifesto Series we will chronicle important ideas to improve urban living. We will talk to politicians, developers, architects, policy makers and activists from around the world to develop an urban manifesto for a happier, healthier and liveable urban future. This series is co-hosted by Lucy Bullivant, Founder of Urbanista.org & Prathima Manohar, Founder of think-do-tank The Urban Vision. 

Herewearch Journal Issue 01: Co-Times Digital Exhibition Opening

Co–times is a call for co-production. As the whole world, we are going through a difficult period. 2020, will marks an uncommon period that we remember it its uniqueness. Different countries, different cities, different people act with collective consciousness. We want to draw attention to the importance of co-production, sharing and cultural transmission in consideration of this extreme situation. Herewearch invites you a challenge that to think about the changes created by this current situation with a person you do not know but share the same condition and to make a small production together. - Statement from the Open Call: Herewearch Journal Issue #01: Co-Times.

Architectural (De)Schooling: How our bodies and biographies can lead design

The Moscow School of Architecture (MARCH) is hosting a lecture series inviting educators from around the world to rethink architectural education in what they call Architectural (De)Schooling in the age of quarantine. On Wednesday, June 17, at 11:00 AM (MEX/COL), a multidisciplinary talk will be held featuring New York-based psychologist Adeola Enigbokan and Colombian architect Carlos Medellín. They will explore the roles our bodies and biographies play in shaping the designers we become and the types of interventions we can make. You can attend the talk in English here.