New York City urban strategist Majora Carter to headline the keynotes
Tomorrow.Building gathers women with the most disruptive vision in the industry
Speeding up the sustainable transformation of the construction sector through new technologies. This is the great challenge that over 100 renowned international experts will tackle in the Tomorrow.Building World Congress conference programme in which, through more than 30 sessions, the event will give special prominence to the voices of women, including American activist Majora Carter, Turkish architect Melike Altinisik, and Danish architect Liselott Stenfeldt.
The event, organised by Fira de Barcelona and held from 5 to 7 November as part of the Smart City Expo World Congress at the Gran Via venue under the slogan ‘Build better’, will bring together leading international experts to showcase their most innovative solutions, projects and strategies for transforming the industry. And it will do so through five major challenges: urban planning and landscaping, construction technology, design technology, decarbonised building and sustainable transformation of buildings.
Among the main speakers confirmed for this edition are Majora Carter, known for her design of urban revitalisation strategies to promote the development of economically and socially degraded areas such as the South Bronx in New York, where she reconverted a landfill into a park or an abandoned train station into an event hall, among other projects.
The event will also feature Melike Altinisik, the architect responsible for Istanbul’s new telecommunications tower, which, at 369 metres high and with a futuristic design, defines the skyline of the Turkish city. Altinisik is an architect who uses robots in her projects, and her most emblematic work is the new Robot Science Museum in Seoul, where robots were responsible for the building’s curved metal façade.
Architect Liselott Stenfeldt is also headlining this year’s edition. She is director of R&D at the urban design and research consultancy Gehl and is considered a true visionary of urban development with more than fifteen years of experience in this field.
Also taking part will be Yelda Gin, professor at London South Bank University; Elena Scaroni, secretary general of the LightingEurope association; Sacha Stolp, director of Innovation in Amsterdam; and May Al-Ibrashy, founder of the Egyptian NGO Megawra-Built Environment Collective.
Disruptive construction
In addition to this great panel of speakers, Tomorrow.Building World Congress will bring together leading companies in the field of disruptive construction such as BIOO, Jacobs, New Murabba, Roshn or SPIE to enable a more circular, efficient and resilient construction activity with the use, for example, of new materials, 3D printing, Building Information Modelling (BIM) or Digital Twins.
In the same vein, it will give visibility to digital startups in the sector (ConTech) and real estate management (PropTech), in the Innovation Playground area.
The event has the backing of international associations such as Build Up, the European Union’s official portal to promote energy efficiency in construction, or Women’s New European Bauhaus (WNEB), as well as national entities such as the Spanish Construction Technology Platform (PTEC) or the Spanish Higher Council of Architects’ Associations (CSCAE), among others.
Tomorrow.Building World Congress, together with Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress and Tomorrow.Blue Economy World Congress, is part of the Smart City Expo World Congress 2024. The four events will bring together more than 1,100 exhibitors and representatives from 850 cities and 140 countries, are expected to welcome more than 25,000 visitors.