Four intersecting thematic frameworks will be discussed in the symposium:
High-Dense Typologies For Building Community
With ongoing and intensifying urban growth, high-rise housing on a large scale will again be a ubiquitous response to give shelter to the ever-growing urban populations. As high-rise building types will consequently emerge to be larger, higher and accommodating more residents than ever before, designers will have to imagine a new social aesthetic of vertical communality. Integrative models of urban living will be discussed, that aim to support liveable urban communities and to foster social cohesion and sense of belonging.
Inclusive Urbanism
Concepts for future public housing will also be discussed as an urbanistic theme, to better understand the dependencies and mutual potentials evolving between the urban domain and innovative forms of habitation. How will the future of urban territories be conceptualized and designed to accommodate densifying and diversifying urban communities, and to cater inclusive and sustainable collective living? How can the housing environment be more empowering for ground-up initiatives and place-making and enabling active communities?
Adaptable And Responsive Habitation
At the same time, urban societies of the future will face significant demographic shifts; with increasing demands by ageing populations, diversifying forms of habitation and lifecycles that are less consistent than before. Participants will debate, how flexibility-driven design approaches could smoothly respond to changing demands, and cater the diversifying needs of tenants during both the launch- and service life-time of buildings.
They will also discuss how social practices for ageing-in-place and for intergenerational co-existence could be accommodated, and how integrative programs can cater for inclusive sustainable societies.
New Tools, New Approaches
The panels will highlight the expanded opportunities given by new forms of knowledge, techniques and design tools to respond to future challenges. The application of generative design tools, the capabilities to analyse the climatic and social performance of designs and their contexts, and the expertise on innovative building techniques and materials offer a whole set of potential answers that help to inform and inspire an environmentally, socially and economically more resilient built environment.