WAFVirtual 2020 - Thinkspace

09/08/21 • 60 min

World Architecture Festival Podcast

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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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.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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WAFVirtual 2020 - WAF Keynote: Prototypes for the Future

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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WAFVirtual 2020 - Post Covid Shopping

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

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