📍 Venue: SISTER – Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 7JR
Some 25 years ago Richard Rogers proposed an urban renaissance for cities across the UK. It was a moment of optimism for an urbanised world that, some ten years ago, the United Nations identified had become the most common mode of living for peoples around the globe. The intervening years have brought many criticisms, with cities being seen as places of inequality, social injustice, unsustainability and sites of global health problems. They can, of course, also be places of economic opportunity, cultural creativity, intelligent design and cutting edge architecture and planning. In this context, the conference explores diverse readings of the places we inhabit: their design, planning, management, social policies and cultural trends.
In partnership with the University of Salford and Amps
Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS) is an interdisciplinary academic research organisation exploring how cities and the built environment shape social, cultural, political, and technological life. Through global conferences, publications and collaborations, AMPS brings together scholars and practitioners to examine critical issues in architecture, urbanism, sustainability, media, and public policy that influence how we live in and experience cities.
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Introduction from Venture Café.
Ricardo Sosa-Mejía will introduce Heatherwick Studio, presenting who the studio is, what it does and the principles that guide its work. He will share three reflections that highlight the studio’s core beliefs, design approach and the impact it strives to achieve through its projects.
Heatherwick Studio, founded by Thomas Heatherwick, is a team of over 260 problem solvers dedicated to making the physical world around us better for everyone. Based out of their combined workshop and design studios in London and Shanghai, they create buildings, spaces, objects and infrastructure. They want to see a world where the buildings and places around us are radically more joyful, engaging and human. Their team of architects, designers, makers, engineers, and landscape architects share a motivation to design soulful and impactful places, which celebrate the complexities of the real world. The approach driving everything is to lead from human experience rather than any fixed design belief.
📍 Venue: SISTER – Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 7JR
Some 25 years ago Richard Rogers proposed an urban renaissance for cities across the UK. It was a moment of optimism for an urbanised world that, some ten years ago, the United Nations identified had become the most common mode of living for peoples around the globe. The intervening years have brought many criticisms, with cities being seen as places of inequality, social injustice, unsustainability and sites of global health problems. They can, of course, also be places of economic opportunity, cultural creativity, intelligent design and cutting edge architecture and planning. In this context, the conference explores diverse readings of the places we inhabit: their design, planning, management, social policies and cultural trends.
In partnership with the University of Salford and Amps
Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS) is an interdisciplinary academic research organisation exploring how cities and the built environment shape social, cultural, political, and technological life. Through global conferences, publications and collaborations, AMPS brings together scholars and practitioners to examine critical issues in architecture, urbanism, sustainability, media, and public policy that influence how we live in and experience cities.
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Introduction from Venture Café.
Ricardo Sosa-Mejía will introduce Heatherwick Studio, presenting who the studio is, what it does and the principles that guide its work. He will share three reflections that highlight the studio’s core beliefs, design approach and the impact it strives to achieve through its projects.
Heatherwick Studio, founded by Thomas Heatherwick, is a team of over 260 problem solvers dedicated to making the physical world around us better for everyone. Based out of their combined workshop and design studios in London and Shanghai, they create buildings, spaces, objects and infrastructure. They want to see a world where the buildings and places around us are radically more joyful, engaging and human. Their team of architects, designers, makers, engineers, and landscape architects share a motivation to design soulful and impactful places, which celebrate the complexities of the real world. The approach driving everything is to lead from human experience rather than any fixed design belief.