Keynote, topics and speakers for World Architecture
Festival (WAF) were announced. The
theme for WAF 2015 was chosen as “50:50”
as event host Singapore celebrates its 50th
anniversary as an independent country this
year.
The theme “50:50” is seen as an opportunity to think globally
about how architecture and urbanism have changed
during that period and the condition of the next 50 years.
WAF 2015 seeks to define tomorrow while debating today.
The keynote topics and speakers of this year’s festival:
Designing for tomorrow
• “Building to extremes: Developing architecture that
fits life as we want to live it no matter the climate” / Kai
Uwe Bergman (BIG)
• “The future of food: Radical approaches that preserve
ecological sustainability” / Michael Sorkin , Rachel Belatchew
(Belatchew Arkitekter)
• “Designing for age: From 1965 to 2065: how should
architecture respond to changes in life expectancy?” /
Niall McLaughlin (Niall McLaughlin Architects), Stephen
Pimbley (SPARK)
Imagining the future
• “Building worlds: future reality, not science fiction” /
Alex McDowell (5D Global Studio, USC World Building
Media Lab, USC World Building Institute)
• “Mapping the future” / Michael Kokora (OMA)
• “The way we thought then, the way we think now” /
Charles Jencks
Cities and urbanism
• “Singapore 50:50” / Liu Thai-Ker (RSP Architects
Planners & Engineers)
• “Paris reconsidered” / Manuelle Gautrand (Manuelle
Gautrand Architecture)
• “Shanghai: imagining the next 50 years” / Alan Balfour
(Georgia Tech College of Architecture)
• “Cooler Calmer Singapore” / Gerhard Schmitt (Future
Cities Lab, ETH Global)
• “The evolution of public space” / David Green
(Perkins+Will)
• “Reflections on 50 years of city evolution” / Sir Peter
Cook (CRAB Studio, Kerry Hill Architects)
World Architecture Festial (WAF ) will be held in Marina
Bay Sands on November 4-6.
