Friday Morning 25th

Friday Morning

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8:00

Registration

9:00-10:30

Session 1

Ricky Burdett

Living in the Endless Cities of Mumbai, São Paulo and Istanbul

Paul Kemp-Robertson

Brands and the economics of free

Alan Penn

Cities at the phase boundary

Susan Greenfield

Living without boundaries in time and space

Tony Travers

The simple constants of good cities

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Session 2

Chris Sanderson

Living & Designing in the DIY Age

Adam Newton

Creating reliable energy, clean water and enough to eat for every city

Greg Offer

Battery electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells and biofuels. Which will be the winner?

Steve Rayner

The Urban Paradox: Cities as sites of innovation and inertia

Iain Sinclair

Ghost Milk - Calling time on the Grand Project

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Friday Afternoon 25th

Friday Afternoon

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14:00-15:30

Session 3

Martín Blinder

Am I Normal? Lifestyle design through numbers

Richard Savage

Retailing and the end of scarcity

Michael Birnhack

Privacy@Home

Rohit Talwar

Electronic highs and virtual lows - the digital future of narcotics

Aldo Faisal

The eye is the new mouse

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-17:30

Session 4

Patrick Blanc

The vertical garden, from nature to cities

Hugh Broughton

Extreme Challenge – creating sustainable architecture in Antarctica

Molly Stevens

Using materials to regenerate the body

Jane Withers

How much water do you eat?

Matt Jones

Living in the middle

17:30+

Evening at the Royal College of Art

"The next Big Bang"

An open competition: what's the invention that – more than any other – is going to transform our world in the next ten years?

Drinks and entertainment

No need to pitch - you can take the Friday evening off and relax in the RCA's Senior Common Room, cabaret included

Saturday Morning 26th

Saturday Morning

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8:00

Registration

9:00-10:30

Session 1

Amanda Renshaw

The Art Museum. A resource unparalleled in any medium

Adriana Lukas

Self-hacking, personal data and a new kind of literacy

George Chopping

Reading and writing on the river

Ian Pearson

The future of sleep and dreaming

Tom Chatfield

Play and immersion in virtual worlds

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Session 2

Rohit Talwar

Virtual Experiential Travel - a New Frontier in Human Experience?

Mark Post

Meet the new meat

Lewis Dartnell

Humanity's future in space

Sarah Harper

Extreme longevity

Geoff Dyer

Street photography in the living room

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Saturday Afternoon 26th

Saturday Afternoon

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14:00-15:30

Session 3

Ian Pearson

The future of play

Walter De Brouwer

Our homes, cities and lives in the Deep Future

Christopher Choa

The New Silk Road: Camels, Air Routes, and the Rise of Aerotropolis

Rachel Armstrong

Will the buildings of the future be alive?

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-17:30

Session 4

Ian Pearson

The future of sex

Jeremy Myerson

Yo-yos, see-saws and other dynamic design challenges of ageing

Stephen Bayley

A circular saw, a Gauloise and a little red wine

The intelligence²
debate

"For the poor the future will look very familiar" -
more details, including line-up, coming soon

*Schedule and speakers subject to change.