BEYOND 2025 Fringe: RIBA Design Generators & Reality Integrators

BEYOND 2025 FRINGE: RIBA Design Generators & Reality Integrators

FREE EVENT

Monday 24 Nov 2024 - FREE EVENT: BOOKING REQUIRED

Level 7, Blue Tower MediaCity.

This session explores the ongoing foresight and futures scenario research of the Royal Institute of British Architects. 

It provides a participatory workshop supported by presentations on futures of the practice of architecture, createch labs, futures infrastructures scenarios and createch in built and natural environments science and the polluting impacts of media infrastructures, e-waste, rare metals and soils and biodiversity in the technical landscapes of datacentres, noise and light impacts on wildlife and machine learning in ecology.

Schedule:

12:00 Dr Fadi Shayya walking lunch (BYO); A guided sociotechnical and eco- infrastructural walking study of capitalist extraction in relation to the Manchester Ship Canal. Assemble at the University of Salford MediaCity (map) from 11.30.

14:00 Afternoon Session

 This session isn't just about new createch tools—it's about fundamentally different models for future infrastructures and future architectures. New models need new labs and new construction sites need future factories.

• Adrian Malleson and Helen Castle on the 2025 RIBA research report and white papers summarising findings from the international community investigating the future of business in architecture.
•  Futures Scenarios and Constructed Environments; Malina Dabrowska, Head of Design Foresight, ARUP
•  Ged Couser;  Architect Principal, Manchester Studio interim Chair, BDP & BDPLabs
•  AHRC Design Generators Research Workshop; facilitated by Derek Hales and Malina Dabrowska.
  
  The convergence of Createch + Immersive Tech, Digital Twinning + Reflexive Architectures creates a practice transformation ecosystem that shifts architecture from construction-dependency on emerging technologies to participation in emerging creative economies. This open workshop explores futures scenario construction for design generators and reality integrators.

18:30 lecture by Professor of AVATAR and Editor of AD magazine, Neil Spiller, on Reflexive Architecture and his engagement in the future of architecture as practiced over the past 30 years.

NB. This ticket only provides access to BEYOND Fringe activities on Mon 24th November at various locations around MediaCity. Please see each ticket for further details on the location. All venues are less than 10 minutes walk from one another. If you don't yet have a full ticket for BEYOND, check the ticket page for details.

Right of admission is reserved. We may have to restrict access at various times to manage venue capacities.

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