"Extreme heat is the deadliest of all severe weather phenomena"

• Eleni Myrivili

Leading figure in urban climate resilience, she alerts to the impacts associated with extreme heat, which include both droughts and heavy rainfall, floods, wildfires, and agricultural losses.

Interspecies City

• Hans Ibelings

This international seminar brings together experts from around Europe will discuss new ways of understanding and designing public space as a living, shared habitat for humans and non-humans alike.

Public Space in U.S. Cities as a Stage of Surveillance and Militarization

• Asha Best

American geographer and urbanist Asha Best comments on the profound changes reshaping the streets of U.S. cities as a result of new immigration policies.

Public space for the benefit of all

• Benedetta Tagliabue

The architect and author of one of the finalist projects for the 2024 Award, Benedetta Tagliabue, talks about her favourite public space in Barcelona and shares her personal experience.

Digital nomads consume cities

• Fabiola Mancinelli

Social anthropologist Fabiola Mancinelli analyzes the phenomenon of digital nomads, the way they relate to the cities where they settle, and the impact they have on them.

Designing Public Spaces

• Sarah Whiting

The dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design reflects on how to approach the design of public spaces to foster encounters and social mixing among citizens.

How climate and human physiology shape public spaces

• Philippe Rahm

The Swiss architect explains how public space has always been directly related to people's physiological needs and climatic conditions such as heat or cold.

Nzinga Biegueng Mboup: “We get in Senegal a lot of migrations from Europe”

Senegalese-Cameroonian architect Nzinga Mboup analyses the housing situation, the economy, the digital world and the energy and food model in Senegal. Mboup criticises the dominant narratives about migrants, proposes the creation of opportunities within African countries and defends a migration...

Margaret Crawford's favorite public spaces