How do our designs challenge norms, and how do we create sustainable architecture in places which are seen as "the periphery"?

On 21 November founding partner Winy Maas will deliver a lecture considering fragile, sensitive places such as the countryside at Kosice's Art and Tech Conference. While recognising them as places of action and connected to nature, he will explain how they can be reshaped to have greater social impact, and be more sustainable and innovative. Winy will explain how a paradigm shift can be delivered by architects and urbanists in the "periphery", whether through large-scale visions such as Biotopia and Metacity Datadown, via innovation and technology which includes Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, or at a smaller scale, seen in Almere Oosterwold and Ypenburg. 

The ‘M’ of MVRDV, Founding Partner and Principal Architect Winy Maas has received international acclaim for his broad range of urban planning and building projects, across all typologies and scales. These are often self-generated, innovative, experimental, and theoretical. Driven by this dedication to green, user-defined, sustainable cities and spaces, Maas’ leadership drives many of the office’s award-winning projects, amongst them Rotterdam’s Markthal, Crystal Houses, the Tianjin Binhai Library, Valley and the first publicly accessible art depot in the world, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. 

• Date & Time: 21 November, 16:00 (GMT)
• Location: Kasárne/Kulturpark, Kukučínova 2, 040 01 Juh, Slovakia
• More information on the event can be found here