Last March a future-‘supergroup’ gathered for the first time in Barcelona to participate at ‘Fixing the future: adventures in a better tomorrow’ . This event was organised by our friends from Atlas of the Future and Diari Ara at Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB).
IAAC’s Academic Director, Areti Markopoulou, was one of the 10 leading experts invited as keynote speakers with the mission to explain the most disruptive initiatives for the world’s future challenges. She talked about the new role of architecture in shaping the societies of the future, assuming her role as the “City Reinventor“, by introducing the research and projects developed at IAAC.
“Architecture used to be considered a ‘machine for living in’ that required consuming the environment’s resources. In the Information Age – and following advances of cybernetics, material science and biology – architecture is becoming ‘alive’ with integrated intelligence that’s in sync with its environment and users’ needs.” – Areti Markopoulou.