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To inspire, stimulate & facilitate discussion on the future of the built environment and its impact on society

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RECENT DEBATE
DATA CITY:DOOM OR BOOM

LAST WEEK AT The Apple Store, Regent Street

Building Futures teamed up Wired UK and The Apple Store to bring an exciting debate surrounding the future effects of technology on our cities.

Follow our new project blog to read about the debate, see photos and listen to audio.

Futures Fair 2010

This year’s Futures Fair was hosted by Building Futures and the NLA. We had a fantastic day of seminars, workshops and keynote presentations which brought together professionals to talk to those in policy, planning, academia and research to embed future thinking as a part of their business.

Futures Fair 10 was supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) through the Foresight Program, and Crystal CG

For seminar summaries and audio, click here

Practice Futures

Practice Futures is an update to The Professionals’ Choice, a 2003 Building Futures publication that examined the future of the built environment professions. Our new mini-publication aims to rexamine the shape of the profession given the current climate, and looks to a 10 year horizon to speculate on where we might be heading. Following an invited seminar held last summer, four participants have crystallised their ideas into a series of short pieces that are both provocative and probing.

To read more about the ongoing aims of the project click here, and to download our new mini-publication click here

GROWING BY DEGREES!

30 March 2009

Building Futures launches its much anticipated report on the future of Universities and Cities. Edited and compiled by Eeva Berglund, this free publication features contributions and comment from some of the leading voices in the higher education sector and aims to investigate the future synergies between town and gown at a critical time in its development.

GROWING BY DEGREES

Competition for Funding

Design for Future Climate:Adapting Buildings

Building Futures are pleased to support the Technology Strategy Board’s latest competition for funding, for further information download the info pack

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