What is the New Urban Agenda?Every 20 years, the UN stages a global summit to outline, debate and agree the key issues affecting housing and sustainable urbanisation over the next two decades. Discussing city-making topics as wide and varied as migration and security to housing, urban mobility and social cohesion; mayors, political leaders, built environment experts and urbanists come together to debate, agree and adopt a global strategy – the New Urban Agenda.

What does this mean for architects, where are the opportunities?How can architects face the challenges of rapid urbanisation and yet thrive in the creation of21st-century worldwide cities? This conference looks closely at the role architects can play in building the good city, at every stage of their career, for practices of any size, working in all parts of the world. With a host of key speakers of international stature including Sir David Chipperfield, Dr Joan Clos, Odile Decq, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Amanda Levete and Ma Yansong as well as urbanists and sociologists, the day explores and highlights the expertise that architects can bring to the making of a cohesive society. Grounding the New Urban Agenda in tangible case studies, we discuss how architects need to innovate to cope with ever increasing demands on housing; what types of building will encourage communities in dense environments; and how to balance the changing needs of the population while protecting the city’s heritage.

Other events and activities this WeekRIBA Late: Beyond Borders launch of installationsMonday 3 - Friday 7 JulyEach summer, the RIBA gives practising architects and students the opportunity to display their ideas and work through the Architecture Open. This year’s open-call theme, ‘Beyond Borders’, rethinks the thresholds that divide nations, communities and families and consider the possibilities of our shared boundaries on global, local and domestic scales. The installations launch on 3 July and remain in place until September 2017. Architecture Open is sponsored by Cosentino.

Delivering the New Urban Agenda through competitionsMonday 3 - Friday 7 JulyThis four-day exhibition showcases shortlisted and winning entries from previous RIBA competitions, uncovering the kinds of fresh, disruptive ideas needed to meet the world’s most important urban challenges. In particular, it reflects on three critical themes emerging from the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda for delivering sustainable urban development: architects’ agency in creating a cohesive society; affordable and sustainable housing: how architects can influence client choices; and protecting cultural heritage: deploying architects’ design vision to unlock economic and community value for clients.

International Prize LaunchTuesday 4 July, 7pm (free for conference ticket holders)This event will launch the call for entries for the second RIBA International Prize. It’s by invitation only but part of the offer for Change in the City conference delegates.

International Women in Architecture DayWednesday 5 July (social media event)A call for colleagues around the world to celebrate women architects by hosting your own event and participating in a social media campaign.With thanks to Marks Barfield Architects, The Rothschild Foundation, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, ORMS and Taittinger Champagne. #EthelDay is a social media campaign named after Ethel Charles, the first woman to be admitted to the RIBA in 1898.Please sign up to the Ethel Day Thunderclap via your own social channels http://thndr.me/tRMkjM

The RIBA’s International Conference is a call to arms. Times are changing, and so must the profession. To make a difference, we need to work and think in new ways.

Join us to find out how architects and the profession remain relevant during these changing times and network with our outstanding experts, your peers, urban planners, developers and academics.

RIBA’s International Conference will connect with architects, no matter where or what size their practice is, to help them understand the potential impact and opportunities of global urbanisation. Under the umbrella of the New Urban Agenda, the week will provide explanation and inspiration, showing how the architecture profession can use its skills over the next two decades to make a valuable and long-lasting contribution to our future cities and society.

RIBA President Jane Duncan

CHANGEIN THE CITY:OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARCHITECTS IN THE NEW URBAN AGENDACONFERENCE – 4 July 2017

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Image of Ethel Mary Charles (left).

Urban-Think Tank / Brillembourg & KlumpnerAlfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner founded architecture firm Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) in 1998 in Caracas, Venezuela, after graduating from Columbia University GSAPP in New York. Since 2007, Brillembourg and Klumpner have taught at Columbia University, where they founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory, and since 2010 they hold the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology, ETH in Zurich.

Yun Wai Wing Yun Wai Wing is an associate at Spark Architects based in Singapore. Wing leads large scale mixed use projects, including the design and project management of a 200,000 sqm landmark development in central Ho Chi Minh City. In 2014, Wing led Spark’s self-initiated research project, Home Farm, a widely published retirement housing proposal, and won a category award at World Architecture Festival 2015.

Ma YansongBeijing-born architect Ma Yansong is Founder and Principal Partner of international practice MAD Architects, and a professor at the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. He is known for his radically experimental designs that combine cutting-edge technology with ancient Eastern precepts and his design philosophy to seek balance between society, the city and the environment, ‘Shanshui City’.

Time Name Description Speakers

9.00 Arrival Registration

9.30-10.30 The New Urban Agenda: a guide for the perplexed Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN Habitat, and former Mayor of Barcelona, outlines the key issues in the New Urban Agenda, which sets a new global standard Joan Clos, Anna Minton, RIBA President Jane Duncan for sustainable urban development, and will help us rethink how we plan, and RIBA Vice President International Peter Oborn manage and live in cities – explaining where the opportunities lie for architects.

10.30-11.30 A politician’s perspective: the future for cities Architects think they can play a key role in creating the future city, but given so few attended the United Nations summit, do prominent figures George Ferguson, Dan Hill, Tristram Hunt, from the sectors who did actually attend agree? Eduardo Paes, Saskia Sassen

11.30-12.00 Break Tea and coffee

12.00 - 13.00 The architects’ perspective: Leading international architects discuss how they think their skills can be Sir David Chipperfield, Odile Decq, Elizabeth Diller, roles and opportunities better used in city making. Is it at a macro level, or via individual buildings? Sarah Gaventa, Amanda Levete, Ma Yansong

13.00-14.00 Lunch Lunch in the Florence Hall

14.00-15.15 A sense of belonging: From both an architectural and sociological perspective, we examine Suzanne Hall, Jo Noero, how to create a cohesive society what building types will encourage social cohesion in the future city. Urban-Think Tank

15.15-16.30 Housing: opportunities for architects to innovate As we live for longer and land prices continue to rise, are architects Michael LaFond, Robert Mull, collectively designing the right kind of homes to deal with our changing society? Christopher Sharples, Yun Wai Wing

16.30-17.00 Break Tea and coffee

17.00-18.15 Cultural heritage: Protecting the world’s cultural and natural heritage is one of the aims of the Rob Bevan, Hannah Corlett, unlock economics and community value New Urban Agenda. We ask what positive role architects can play, and how. Farrokh Derakhsahani, Diébédo Francis Kéré

18.15-18.30 Closing remarks Jane Duncan and Peter Oborn

18.30-21.00 International Prize Launch Networking event opening the call for entries for the second RIBA International Prize.

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Rob Bevan Robert Bevan is the London Evening Standard architecture critic. He writes on architecture, design and heritage for publications internationally. His book and documentary The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War (2006/ 2016) was an inspiration for the London Festival of Architecture theme for 2017. Robert is a member of ICOMOS, the advisory body to UNESCO on cultural heritage and a board member of Blue Shield in the UK. Robert is a qualified planner and urban designer and also works as a heritage consultant.

Sir David Chipperfield CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA David Chipperfield Architects was established by Sir David Chipperfield in London in 1985, and now has offices in Berlin, Milan and Shanghai. The practice has produced a diverse international body of work including cultural, residential, commercial, leisure, civic projects and masterplanning, unified by its rigorous and architecturally, socially and intellectually coherent design solutions.

Joan ClosDr. Joan Clos is the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), at the level of Under Secretary General by the United Nations. He has held this office since October 2010. He also served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) held in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016. Born in Barcelona, he is a medical doctor with a distinguished career in public service and diplomacy.

Hannah CorlettHannah Corlett is co-founder and director of ASSEMBLAGE, a London-based studio of architects and urban designers. Key projects by the studio include winning schemes in the international competitions for the $1bn Iraqi parliament complex and 50 ha masterplan and the UN-HABITAT (United Nations Agency for Human Settlements) fully integrated, economic housing settlements in Iraq. Currently ASSEMBLAGE is leading the new design district at the heart of the Greenwich Peninsula Masterplan.

Odile DecqOdile Decq is an award-winning French architect and director of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq. Decq became internationally renowned in 1990 with her first major commission, La Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes, and went on to be awarded The Golden Lion of Architecture during the Venice Biennale in 1996. In the early 1990s Decq taught at the Bartlett in London, and since 1992 she has been a professor at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris where, in 2007, she became director.

Farrokh DerakhshaniFarrokh Derakhshani is Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. He has been associated with the Award since 1982, where his work has brought him into contact with architects, builders, and planners throughout the world. He travels extensively in Muslim countries, and has organised and participated in numerous international seminars and colloquia dealing with contemporary built environments. He has collaborated on a large variety of publications and exhibitions on architecture, and has been involved

in organising professional workshops and international architectural competitions.

Elizabeth Diller Elizabeth Diller is a founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), a New York City-based design studio working at the intersection of architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. DS+R is rooted in early conceptual projects that distinguished Ms. Diller and Mr. Scofidio as the first recipients in the field of architecture to receive the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” award (1999). Ms. Diller is an International Fellow at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and is a Professor of Architecture at Princeton University.

George FergusonGeorge Ferguson CBE PPRIBA is a past president of RIBA (2003-2005) and was the first elected Mayor of Bristol, where he co-founded Ferguson Mann Architects in 1979. While at the RIBA he founded the Academy of Urbanism with John Thompson. Ferguson has an international profile as an advocate for the global environment and liveable cities and has represented the European Commission, Eurocities, at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris and the G7 2016 summit in Japan.

Sarah GaventaSarah is Director of the Illuminated River Foundation, which is creating a lighting artwork by artist Leo Villareal that will illuminate many London bridges. A commentator on cities, Sarah is a public space and public art expert and curator, and was Director of CABE Space at the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment.

Sarah has been an Associate at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and a founder of Scarlet Projects and Made Public.

Suzanne HallSuzanne Hall is Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) Cities Programme. Having previously practised as an architect in South Africa, she is now an urban ethnographer, with research and teaching interests foregrounded in everyday formations of global migration. Hall’s current research, focuses on the micro-economies and spaces of migration in deprived parts of Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester.

Dan Hill Dan Hill is an Associate Director at Arup and Head of Arup Digital Studio, a multidisciplinary service and strategic design team. A digital expert, designer and urbanist, Hill’s previous leadership positions have produced innovative, influential projects and organisations, ranging across built environment (Arup, Future Cities Catapult), education and research (Fabrica), government (SITRA), and media (BBC, Monocle).

Tristram HuntDr. Tristram Hunt was appointed Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in February 2017. Between 2001-2010, he combined his post as Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary University of London, with work as a history broadcaster, presenting a range of radio and television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4. Hunt’s publications include ‘Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City’ and the recent ‘Ten Cities That Made an Empire’.

Diébédo Francis KéréDiébédo Francis Kéré is a German-trained architect from the small West African town of Gando in Burkina Faso. He is recognized for his innovative construction strategies that combine traditional materials and building techniques with modern engineering methods. Since founding Kéré Architecture in 2005, his work has earned numerous prestigious awards such as the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, BSI Swiss Architectural Award, Marcus Prize.

Michael LaFondDr. Michael LaFond is a cohousing expert and director of the id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability, a Berlin-based not-for- profit organisation that coordinates educational services, networking events and publications exploring cohousing and related self-organised urban development initiatives. His recent projects include the books ‘CoHousing Cultures’ and ‘CoHousing Inclusive’, the annual housing fair ‘Experimentdays’ and the online platform ‘CoHousing-Berlin’.

Amanda LeveteAmanda Levete is a RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect, founder and principal of AL_A, an international award-winning design and architecture studio. Since its formation in 2009, AL_A has refined an intuitive and strategic approach to design that has radicalised clients and briefs, led to a diverse range of concepts for cultural, retail and commercial schemes around the world. Recent commissions include the highly anticipated expansion of the Victoria Albert Museum in London.

Anna MintonAnna Minton is a writer and reader at the University of East London, where she is Programme Leader of the MRes in Architecture, ‘Reading the neoliberal city’. She is the author of ‘Big Capital: Who is London for?’ and ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City’. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian and Architectural Review and a frequent broadcaster and conference speaker.

Robert Mull Robert Mull is Head of School and Professor of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton and Director of Innovation at London-based urban design practice Publica. He is currently developing the Global Practice Programme; a strategy focusing on live projects within the European Refugee Crises, communities, prisons and schools, with educational, NGO and institutional partners.

Jo NoeroJo Noero formed Noero Architects in Johannesburg in 1984 and the practice now has offices in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Noero has designed and built over 200 projects, and has been the recipient of local and international awards, including the Lubetkin Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2006, the Ralph Erskine Prize from the Nordic Association of Architects in 1993, and the Gold Medal for Architecture from the South African Institute of Architects in 2010.

Eduardo PaesEduardo Paes is a Brazilian politician and former mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro. His career in public service began in 1993 when he was appointed Deputy Mayor of the Jacarepaguá and Barra districts in Rio at the age of 23. In 2000, he was appointed Rio´s Municipal Environmental Secretary where he refined his knowledge of environmental issues. In October 2008 he was elected Mayor of Rio de Janeiro for a four-year term, beginning in January 2009, and in October 2012 he was re-elected.

Saskia SassenSaskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Sassen’s research and writing focuses on globalization, immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. Her latest book is ‘Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy’ (Harvard University Press 2014). Born in the Netherlands, Sassen grew up in Argentina and Italy, studied in France, and began her professional life in the US.

Chris SharplesChris was among the founders of SHoP Architects in 1996. Since then the practice has modelled a new way forward with an unconventional approach to design. Chris served as principal for many significant projects including the Barclays Center, SITE Santa Fe gallery expansion, Google Headquarter Offices, and the world’s tallest modular residential tower at 461 Dean Street. Chris is a thoughtful leader of innovative architects and a powerful advocate for design quality in contemporary city-building.

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