Event DTF 2017 Architecture and Innovation

Designing the Future organizes for the third consecutive year the DTF Architecture and Innovation Event, conducted by Mar Llorens, which will take place on Saturday, March 18 at Google Campus in Madrid. The event will host the award ceremony of the DTF 2017 Contests, which this year had more than 250 participants and will distribute among the winners, more than € 13,000 in prizes. As a novelty, in addition to the III DTF Prize for the Best Final Project and the II DTF Prize for the Best Student Project, this year an international ideas competition has been convened that invited us to reflect on what the house of the future will be like. We will also have presentations on avant-garde subjects tangential to architecture such as virtual reality, smart cities, large-scale architecture, microarchitecture and entrepreneurship.

Throughout history, architects have designed spaces of all kinds to accommodate people's daily lives. However, with the arrival of the digital age, many of our activities have developed into a kind of limbo between the real and the virtual. Javier Escorihuela Casado (CEO Isostopy) will expand on this topic in his virtual reality microconference,

To return to the real world, in her exhibition on smart cities, Inés Leal (director of the Smart Cities Congress) will present an analysis of current and future trends that arise from the advancement and use of ICTs -Information and Communication Technologies- and its influence on social and economic changes within cities. Linked to this topic, Santiago Jiménez Cortés will present one of his entrepreneurship projects, Light, an application to encourage people to be more sustainable in their day-to-day through gamification and smart city systems, reducing pollution and improving life in our cities.

In recent years, the architecture, engineering and construction sector has evolved towards common guidelines, applying the BIM methodology for the development of projects of different scales at the national and international level; María Pascual Sáez (BIM director at C95 Creative) will speak to us about architecture on a large scale. At the other extreme, the microarchitecture will be represented by Sara San Gregorio de Lucas (researcher at Medialab-Prado) who will speak about the “Small-scale” working group that is committed to involving boys and girls in the design process and production of the objects with which they play, the spaces in which they learn and the cities in which they live, using digital communication, manufacturing and documentation tools.

Take advantage of the opportunity to attend this (free) Event with a program designed for students, architects and design professionals, by clicking here to reserve your ticket. If you can not attend, do not worry, we will do the live broadcast through Facebook live so you can follow the DTF 2017 Event from anywhere in the world and send your questions to the participants.