Architecture of the Future Conference, the biggest architecture conference in Eastern Europe, has started with Filippo Lodi's lecture, Lodi is the Head of Innovation and Knowledge Management at UNStudio and UNSense, an independent sister company of UNStudio. 

The conference is bringing together authorities, architects, engineers, developers, media to discuss the "architecture of the future trends" in Kiev between October 4-5, 2018 Ukraine for the first time.

In the first day, "New Technologies Panel" has started with Filippo Lodi's lecture, titled "Technology, Design, Health and the Hyperhuman", Lodi has discussed the impacts of technology as it is being more and more cheaper in our daily lives and discussed how technology has become a new form thinking to produce any project in a different way. 

Lodi stated that "technology is a new form thinking and vision any more. Technology is also developing faster than we expected." Lodi briefly touched upon the impacts of technology of urban environment and he said that "technology of urban environment is less designed in general."

"Architects should design technology for the urban environment as well," he emphasized. 

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Curated by Riyad Joucka, Founder/Architect MEAN* Middle East Architectural Network, United Arab Emirates, the conference is seeking to change the city through the development of advanced technologies and the creation of iconic projects with key speakers and leaders, including Jan Knikker, Partner at MVRDV, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner at BIG, Julian Weyer, Owner of C.F. Moller Architects, Lukasz Platkowski, Principal, Design Director at Gensler, Harry Ibbs, Head of BIM at Zaha Hadid Architects and many more. 

In addition to his urban vision through technology, Lodi stressed that "roads also should be digitally changable" and most of lights in the urban environment that we saw are very static, urban lights should be much more flexible and responsive to the changing dynamics of the cities."

Emphasizing multidisciplinary approach in design and archtitecture, he added that "design is a looping process and we see this how it is developed from tooling to processing". 

Lodi named his list at his lecture, by stating how technology should be considered under 4 major assets to create more general values and flexible uses. These assets are: adaptation / resilience, new tooling, create value and health. 

Lodi also talked about the inevitable results and impacts of solar technology, stating that how new technology of solar panels creates different types of options for designing of facades. For "Health" asset in design and architecture, he added that "creating much more reacting/responsive furnitures and design components provides us a new way thinking to cope with the stress in our daily lives."

"How can we think in these spaces in that way?", he asked. "Health is a much more shifting component in design", he concluded. 

The main goal of the conference is to create a platform that develops new technologies in architecture and construction.

The conference is being shaped around six major topics: How VR/AR/AI are changing present and future of the architecture, 3D printing as a new shape for architecture, Zero energy architecture, Smart city as new platform for living, the sustainable strategies for the cities development, Mega projects, supertalls and new cities within the existing cities. 

Filippo is a Senior Architect and Associate at UNStudio. He is an all-round architect specialized in parametric and product design. Beyond the production of design deliverables, Filippo is responsible for ensuring a high level of design quality in-line with UNStudio standards. 

He joined UNStudio in 2008, and has worked on several major projects including the Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art in Dubai, the Post Rotterdam complex, and the Kutaisi International Airport in Georgia. Filippo is also the Inventive Materials Knowledge Platform Coordinator at UNStudio.

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