Future Architect Conference

Conducted as a two-day virtual event, Future Architect will include a range of public talks, panel discussions and public interviews with more than 40 young architects, designers, critics and professors presenting during the Youtube broadcast. The conference programming committee jointly with the Future Architecture Platform, ArchDaily, HKU Faculty of Architecture (Hong Kong), Technion (Israel), Bezalel (Israel) and the Russian Youth Architecture Biennale curated the program for the event.

This year’s event focuses on how the global challenges continue to transform the role of the architect and has the ambition to reflect on what is at stake in the paradoxes of our contemporary urban condition. “Floods, heat waves, climate migration, pandemics, poverty and inequality determine the changing tasks of the architect: to apply architectural thinking and seek spatial solutions to prevent the spread of infections, increase in temperature, and extinction of biological species. The architects of the future see their role not solely in creating buildings and public spaces, but in designing to have an impact on today’s most critical issues—from the consequences of environmental collapse to impacts of emerging technologies,” the conference manifesto says.

Future Architect brings together a generation of talented architects and designers who are crossing professional boundaries to develop new visions for the profession in response to most crucial global challenges and opportunities. 

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Architects.rf (Архитекторы.рф) is a tuition-free leadership and professional development program for Russian professionals in the fields of architecture, urban planning and public administration. The program is implemented by DOM.RF in strategic partnership with the Strelka Institute for media, architecture and design with the support of the Government of the Russian Federation and The Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities. 

Strelka Institute is a non-profit educational institution founded in 2009 with a mission to change the physical and cultural landscape of Russian cities. The Institute promotes positive changes and creates new ideas and values through its educational activities. Strelka provides new learning opportunities for multidisciplinary professionals, while the City remains at the centre of the Institute ́s research.