Opening Keynote Address: Humanising Our Cities
Wed 29 May
9:00 AM — 9:20 AM (GMT+09:00) Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo
Tokyo Midtown Hall, Midtown East B1F, General Session, Hall B
When did everything become so boring and homogenous? Who is really thinking about how to make buildings, places, and objects mean something to us - to lift our spirits and connect us? How can we make our cities more human?
In this opening address Thomas Heatherwick, Founder of Heatherwick Studio, will outline his thoughts on how designers and city makers can create more human places, and explain how a fundamental understanding of emotion is the crucial ingredient that is missing in so much of design today.
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Founder Heatherwick Studio
Thomas Heatherwick is one of the UK’s most prolific designers, whose varied work over two decades is characterised by its originality, inventiveness and humanity. Defying conventional classifications, Thomas founded his studio in 1994 to bring together architecture, urban planning, product design and interiors into a single creative workspace. Working across multiple scales, locations and typologies, Heatherwick Studio has developed into a team of 200 makers…