Given the complex challenges for designers in respect of climate, biodiversity and demography, collaboration has become an increasingly important factor in the creation of design and delivery teams, and the way they are managed. What lessons have Surban Jurong, a multi-disciplinary international practice, learned in recent years?

Speaker - Patrick Fejér, Chief Executive Officer, B+H Architects

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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Buildings and the built environment are designed and constructed according to measurable, quantifiable and gradable standards, yet a community’s interaction with their environment is not measured, or indeed measurable in this way. From Le Corbusier's 'Ineffable space' to Louis Kahn's 'Unmeasurable' criteria for great buildings, we continue this architectural pursuit to connect the intangible with the most urgent tangibles of contemporary everyday lives. We look to ask if architecture and design can move the needle on the public’s sense of agency, attachment, attraction, connection, freedom and inclusion.

Speakers -

Ar. Adrian Lai, Council Member, Singapore Institute of Architects

Isabella Ong, Artist and Technical Build

Ar. Ker How Wong, Council Member, Singapore Institute of Architects

Chair - Jeremy Melvin, Programme Curator, World Architecture Festival (Speaker introduction)

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As an industry we have focussed for decades on reducing operational carbon in our buildings and the tools and methods are well understood. But what does the reduction in CO2 emissions from our power grid mean for our processes and the way we design our buildings and is it a catalyst for a different way of thinking? Do we need to rethink and assess things differently? How do we catalyse a change to a future where we look beyond being less bad and start to think in terms of the regeneration of our environment.

Speaker - Patrick Bellew, Founder and Executive Chairman, Atelier Ten

Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

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