Designing sustainable cities
Digitalt
Moderator: Marcus Fairs
Panelists: Beatrice Galilee, Duncan Baker-Brown
How do we design and build more sustainable cities? What are the main challenges ahead and how are they affecting the architectural practice? What changes are needed in the industry - and how do we change our mindset from constantly building new structures to instead preserve and restore existing buildings?
Lecturers
Marcus Fairs Moderator
Editor in chief,
Dezeen
Dezeen is widely regarded as the most influential and popular design website in the world, attracting over two million unique visitors every month. Marcus is the author of four books and the first digital journalist to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Beatrice Galilee Panelist
Curator and Critic
The New York-based critic, curator, and cultural consultant is the founder and executive director of the architecture conference The World Around and author of Radical Architecture of the Future, which was published by Phaidon earlier this year
Duncan Baker-Brown Panelist
Architect and Activist
Baker Brown, founder
Baker-Brown is a practising architect, academic, and environmental activist. He’s also the author of The Re-Use Atlas, published by RIBA and Climate Literacy Champion at the University of Brighton. He has practised, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable and closed-looped systems for more than 25 years.