Beyond disasters, through Solidarity, towards Sustainability
With “DESIGN 2050” as their key concept, architects once again have the opportunity to lead the world forward by creating a new “charter” to embody this commitment.
In the 21st century, we will need to overcome many challenges in fields that include the environment, energy, the economy, population, food, education and like the disaster we witnessed on March 11th along the Northeast coast Japan. The architectural community cannot solve these problems alone. Solutions will only be founded when all people can work together across national borders, and when the barriers of religion, ethnicity, gender, generation or industry have been removed. We will merge together the wisdom of technology of people everywhere create a future vision of the world of 2050, within which we will seek out ideas for the future for cities and architecture.
In the 21st century, we will need to overcome many challenges in fields that include the environment, energy, the economy, population, food, education and like the disaster we witnessed on March 11th along the Northeast coast Japan. The architectural community cannot solve these problems alone. Solutions will only be founded when all people can work together across national borders, and when the barriers of religion, ethnicity, gender, generation or industry have been removed. We will merge together the wisdom of technology of people everywhere create a future vision of the world of 2050, within which we will seek out ideas for the future for cities and architecture.
That is why “DESIGN 2050” has been chosen as the main theme for UIA2011 TOKYO with three sub-themes: “Environment,” “Culture” and “Life.” The upcoming congress will bring together architects, engineers, researchers and students from every part of the world to create a future vision of architecture and cities of 2050 and beyond.
