Sponsored by Çanakkale Seramik & Kalebodur, the 1st Infra-freeArchitecture Symposium brought together many well-known names in thefields of architecture and space sciences. Associate Professor Serkan Anılır, a faculty memberat Tokyo University, and Çanakkale Seramik & Kalebodur, thelocomotive brands of the Kale Group of companies started to prepare forthis event for approximately one year in advance. The symposiumintroduced a new perspective on the architecture of the future. Theobjective of the symposium is to make architecture less dependent oninfrastructure, which, by its very nature, has a detrimental effect onthe former. Chaired by Associate Professor Serkan Anılır, thesymposium hosted many scientists, architects, industrial designers,science-fiction writers, astronauts and participants of large-scaleNASA projects from countries such as Italy, Japan, USA, China, Ireland,and Germany. The participants were as follows:
Associate Professor Serkan Anılır, Architect, Tokyo University, Japan
Roberto Vittori, Astronaut, ESA, Italy
Prof. Kengo Kuma, Architect, Japan
Prof. Dr. Shuichi Matsumura, Architect, Tokyo University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Kenichi Kawaguchi, Architect-Engineer, Tokyo University, Japan
Prof. Dr. A. Scott Howe, Architect-Robotic, Hong Kong University, China
John P. Allen, Biosphere II Project Manager, Arizona, USA
James P. Hogan, Science-Fiction writer, Ireland
Dr. Silvano Colombano, Robotic Project Manager, NASA-Ames, USA
Brent Sherwood, Project Manager, NASA-JPL {Jet Propulsion Laboratory}, USA
Arturo Vittori, Industrial Designer, MOFA2006 Award Recipient, Italy
Andreas Vogler, Architect, MOFA2006 Award Recipient, Germany
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