Just a few weeks before the curtain opens on the fourth edition of the New Generations Festival, the event dedicated to the new frontiers of architecture and design, which will take place from 24 to 26 September at the Casa dell’Architettura in Rome (Piazza M. Fanti 47 – Esquilino area). The three-day event, entitled “Architects VS Rest of the World”, will see more than 50 young people take turns on stage.
professionals and international experts. Among the many: APPAREIL (ES), Architecture for Refugees (CH),
ecoLogicStudio (UK), Emanuele Bompan (geographer and journalist, IT), Ricardo Devesa (editor-in-chief
urbanNext, Actar, ES), ENORME Studio (ES), Fosbury Architecture (IT), Luca Montuori (Alderman
to Urban Planning and Infrastructure of the City of Rome, IT), Horizontal (IT), SET Architects (IT), Jean-Benoît Vetillard (FR), U67 (DK), WikiSpazioPubblico (IT). To these are added the two Keynote speakers who will animate the evenings of the Festival: Koert van Mensvoort (Next Nature, NL) and Jose Luis Vallejo (urban ecosystem, ES).
With a full program of lectures, round tables, workshops and satellite events (screenings, video-interviews), the event focuses on three key themes: Urban vocabulary & public space, New economies & values, Digital infrastructures & new media and, finally, a dense discussion on national and European calls and competitions.
Info: http://www.casadellarchitettura.it/mostre/new-generations-festival-2017/