About In Focus: Transformation

In Focus: Transformation considers how designers, thinkers, and artists confront a world in flux—ecologically, socially, and politically.

As landscapes burn, coastlines erode, and communities are displaced, the built environment becomes a critical site of response. This program gathers practitioners who view architecture not as static form but as a medium of change: restoring land, resisting extraction, and imagining new forms of dwelling and repair. Transformation here is not abstract—it is material, embodied, and urgent.

From heat, crisis, and resistance to flow, regeneration, and resilience, these speakers explore how architecture and design can act as a force of transformation: responding to trauma, protecting the vulnerable, and reshaping relationships between people, place, and planet. In a time of compounding upheaval, In Focus: Transformation invites discussion on the inevitable changes that lie before us, and what design can do to inspire, support and transform.

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