14.20 – 15.00
Question time:How can we house the world?
··What are the implications of high-rise cities becoming the norm rather than the exception?
··Is high-rise the only option?
··What lessons can be learned from high density housing successes and failures?

The panel will briefly address these questions before taking questions from the floor.
Rahel Belatchew Lerdell, Principal,Belatchew Arkitekter
Darryl Chen, Partner,Hawkins\Brown
Sergey Kuznetsov, Moscow City,Architect
Chair: Paul Finch

15.20 – 16.00
The road to Rio:Olympic preview
··The masterplan materializes: how is Rio doing?
··Legacy and opportunity: how will the games change Rio’s urban landscape?
··The long game: how are venues influencing temporary and permanent sports design?
··How can cities take advantage of major sporting events to create new identities for themselves?
Kevin Owens, Director,WilsonOwensOwens
Jonathan Rose, Principal, Aecom
Chair: Paul Finch

16.20 – 17.00
The well-tempered environment: Designing cities for health, wellbeing and delight
··How can urban design strategies combat lifestyle health problems?
··Active by design – how can designers enable strategies for buildings and occupiers?
··Aging in the city: designing for the third generation
Michael Wiener, Principal, Gensler
Chair: Jeremy Rowe, Managing Director, AkzoNobel Decorative Paints, South East and South Asia

18:00 – 19.00
Keynote:Citizens and the compact city
Richard Rogers, Rogers Stirk
Harbour + Partners
Chair: Paul Finch

Festival Hall Stage ,Thursday

12.00 – 12.40
Heatherwick Studio:People, place and cities
··Introduction to the practice including the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo
··First look at the new NTU Learning Hub, in Singapore
··Using materials, from the ordinary to the extraordinary and the experimental
··Design and manufacturing collaboration 

Ole Smith, Architect/Project Leader of NTU Learning Hub, Heatherwick Studio
Chair: Paul Finch

12.40 – 13.00
Q&A

14.20 – 15.00
Game-changers:Getting to the next level
Practices will candidly share their professional stories and discuss the decisions and projects that elevated their business to a different level either commercially or professionally.
Kai Uwe Bergman, Principal, BIG
Chair: Julie Eizenberg, Principal,Koning Eizenberg

15.20 – 16.00
Future forecast:Tomorrow’s materials today
··What’s at our fingertips? From smart materials to material selfassembly
··Small but beautiful: understanding the potential of nano-technology
··Looking to the pioneers of material technology: industries that architecture can learn from
··Current applications for tomorrow’s materials
Sylvia Leydecker, Principal, 100% Interiors and Author of Nano Materials on Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design
Chair: Pernilla Ohrstedt, Principal,
Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio

16.20 – 17.00
WAF world updates Shenzhen – Stephen Pimbley,
Director, Spark Architects Taipei – Joshua Pan, Principal, J.J. Pan and Partners
Architects working in booming global cities will share their personal experiences of designing and operating in their city. Through these interactive sessions find out:
··What’s happening on the ground:market forces shaping development
··Keys to success: understanding the culture and working with the right partners
··Client and regulatory requirements:what is required and what is desired
··Design and construction: tailoring design to match local expertise, expectation and need
Introduction: Jeremy Melvin

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