ARCHITECTS BACKSTAGE LECTURE SERIES F2F SUMMARY BOOKLET

MASTER IN ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT AND DESIGN JULY 2018 WHAT IS THE ARCHITECT’S BACKSTAGE SERIES?

It’s year-round series of events with the format of lectures, conversations or round tables, that explore how leading designers

approach the challenges of building successful companies,

and how they have wisely used the factors, contexts, talent

and resources at play in their impactful journeys. Students are

expected to actively engage with lecturers, in the analysis of the current and future state of practice. The London F2F period is the

most intense moment of the cycle, within the MAMD curriculum. WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT FROM IT?

• Leading professionals sharing deep insights on practice

• A direct and analytical tone

• Reflections, not recipes, because there are no recipes

• Openness to address a variety of topics, as long as they are

related to the day-to-day of professionals in our field

• A vision of failure and struggle as a necessary step for success

• Openness and disposition towards interesting conversation

• Bidirectional confidentiality

GENERAL DYNAMIC OF THE EVENTS

• Venue arrival: grouping outside before entry. Max 10’ courtesy

• Tour of the office, if applicable and relevant to the topic

• Lecture presentation by the director, Jerónimo van Schendel

• Lecturer intervention: lecture, conversation, round table

• Q & A session, very important:

. Q&A session will be introduced by the director.

.To establish an interesting conversation from the

beggining, the first 2-3 questions and Q&A

orientation of each event will be made by an assigned

group of students, who will briefly study the lecturer

beforehand and be ready to establish the conversation,

before quickly and organically opening it to the class.

.Please see next page for Q&A events assignment.

• Short informal debriefing and networking session, depending

on the hosting institution. TBC on the go.

Q&A ASSIGNMENT OF EVENTS

Monday 9. Peter Oborn Group A - Chadi Abboud, Mariángela V.Z., Stephen A.N.

Wednesday 11. Architects Group A - Carlota M.G, Hisham Kaakani, Ángela A.P.

Thursday 12. Future Common Grounds Joint event MAMD-MSD, no Q&A assignment

Friday 13. Architecture 00 Group B - Miguel Ángel G., Mónica N. Alcolea, Olivier Etchegaray

Monday 16. Chipperfield Architects Group B - Andrés V. P., Xiaoying Feng.

Tuesday 17. Amanda Levette Architects Group C - Bernardo L.A, Dana A.N

Wednesday 18. AKT Engineers Group C - Miguel P.H., Jennifer D.L., Emel Elfakir

Thursday 19. Group D - Mohamed O.Ezz el Din, Avril H.P, Alaa Sheet

Friday 20. Farshid Moussavi Architects Group D - Maroa B.P., Eh Fong Chua, Mª Celina R.P.

Monday 23. Plan A Consultants Group E - Khaled Abdelmoty, María M.G., Robert S.S.

Tuesday 24. Skipping Rocks Lab Group E - Cynthia Karam, Carmen M.V., Paula G.B. WHAT SHOULD WE DO TO TAKE OUT THE MOST OF THIS EXPERIENCE?

• Study the lecturers and their work. Research a little bit.

• Focus your thoughts on the topic elected for each lecture.

• Be analytical, plan possible questions related to each event.

You might ask them or not, but this will enrich your learning.

• Avoid cliché (it won’t help, nor contribute to the conversation).

• Don’t expect recipes. They don’t exist.

• Extrapolate insights into your journey, and your objectives.

• Share your struggle, if any, on the topics addressed.

• Comment with peers, long before and after the event.

• Be punctual. These outstanding speakers participate in the

MAMD because they believe in its vision, the success of this

events depends on having everyone equally invested. SCHEDULE FOR THE LONDON F2F PERIOD

ARCHITECT'S BACKSTAGE LECTURE SERIES DATE LECTURE COMPANY SPEAKER & ROLE LOCATION TIME

Peter Oborn RIBA - Lutyens Room MONDAY 09 The Future Role of the Profession Commonwealth A.A. 10:40-12:00 Vicepresident Europe 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

Manon Janssens Building ZHA Through the Lens of Director of Communications Zaha Hadid Gallery WEDNESDAY 11 Zaha Hadid Architects 18:00 - 20:00 Archives and Research Shajay Booshan 101 Goswell Rd, London EC1V 7EZ, UK Founder of CODE group

Franquibel Lima Head of Design Europe Wework Future Common Grounds. Jeremy Myerson IE London Office Lounge THURSDAY 12 Royal College of the Arts 19:00 - 20:30 Practice, Workspace, Cities Chair of Design 96 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 4SG, UK Perkins+ Will Jack Pringle Managing Director

A Hybrid Practice: Innovating Alice Fung A r c h it e c t u r e 0 0 Office FRIDAY 13 Architecture 00 18:00 - 20:00 Architecture Business Models Co-founder (Hackney Central) 217 Mare Street, E8 3QE

B e n i t o B la n c o C h ip p e r f i e l d A r c h it e c t s Headquarters MONDAY 16 Practice, Studio and Office 18:00 - 20:00 Chipperfield Architects Projects Director 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX (Tower)

The Open-Minded Practice: M a x i m i l ia n o A r r o cet Amanda Levette Headquarters TUESDAY 17 Spinoffs and Opportunity in 18:00 - 20:00 Amanda Levette Architects Studio Director 14A Brewery Road, London N7 9NH Architecture

AKT Headquarters 17:10 - 19:10 Founder and Principal H a n i f Kara WEDNESDAY 18 DesignEngineeringDesign White Collar Factory, 1 Old Street Yard (Class before will end AKT Engineers Founder and Principal London EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom 16:45 instead of 17:00)

Stefan Behling An Open Conversation About Head of Studio Foster & Partners Headquarters THURSDAY 19 Foster & Partners 18:00 - 20:00 Practice and Design Leadership Jose Alamar Riverside, 22 Hester Road, London, SW11 4AN Associate (MAMD Alumni)

F a r s h i d M o u s s a v i Farshid Moussavi Architects Headquarters FRIDAY 20 Realities of Practice 17:30 - 19:30 Farshid Moussavi Architects Founder and Principal 12F, 130 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 5DJ

Gerard Daws Design Management and Co-founder and Director RIBA - Lutyens Room MONDAY 23 Plan A Consultants 18:00 - 20:00 Regaining the Leadership Role Nick Willars 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD Co-founder and Director

The Entrepreneur's Journey: R o drigo García R IB A - L u t y e n s Room TUESDAY 24 Mindset and Attitudes to Fail and 18:00 - 20:00 Skipping Rocks Lab - Ooho! Founder and Director 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD Succeed

IMPORTANT NOTE 1 PLEASE, ALWAYS BRING YOUR ID'S WITH YOU. THANK YOU

IMPORTANT NOTE 2 COMMUTING TIME FROM RIBA TO OFFICES IS ENOUGH BUT GENERALLY NOT AMPLE. PLEASE GO STRAIGHT TO DESTINATION AS SOON AS YOU ARE ABLE. THANK YOU MONDAY 9 10:40 - 12:00 RIBA, Lutyens Room 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

The Future Role of the Profession Peter Oborn, VP Europe, Commonwealth Architect’s Association

http://www.comarchitect.org/ https://twitter.com/comarchitect?lang=en

Peter Oborn is the former Deputy Chairman of Aedas Architects Ltd, responsible for its London office until 2010, and was Director responsible for the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s (CTBUH) award winning Al Bahr Towers in .

More recently, Peter served as RIBA Competitions Adviser and Client Adviser to the government of Oman in connection with the development of a new city located in the Muscat capital area.

He served as Vice President International at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) until September 2017 when he was elected as a Council member at the International Union of Architects (UIA). He is also currently a Vice President at the Commonwealth Architects Association (CAA) and a CABE Built Environment Expert.

In 2016, Peter became the inaugural Chair of the UK Built Environment Advisory Group, a collaboration between the RIBA, the RTPI and the IStructE, the aim of which is to provide a more effective conduit for the transfer of built environment expertise to a range of humanitarian and development partners together with foreign governments. In January 2017 he was elected as Chair of the RIBA’s Sustainability and Ethics Commision.

Peter works with policy makers and professionals around the world to advance the sustainable cities agenda.

Well managed architectural competitions are a great way of helping to ensure successful projects, but what constitutes a well-managed competition? During the course of this lecture, Peter will describe the Competitions process developed by the Royal Institute of British Architects, together with the way in which it was used to help procure a masterplan for a new city in the Sultanate of Oman. WEDNESDAY 11 18:00 - 20:00 Z a h a H a d i d G a l l e r y 101 Goswell Rd, London EC1V 7EZ, UK

Building ZHA Through the Lens of Archives and Research Manon Janssens, Head of Exhibitions ZHA Shajay Booshan, Founder of CoDe Group

http://www.zha-code-education.org/ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-what-zaha-hadid-s-retrospective-says-about-the-future-of- her-practice https://twitter.com/zha_news?lang=en

Manon Janssens has been instrumental in developing the fundamental strategy of the practice for both the present, and future management of the physical and digital archive and their customized databases. Her role maintains oversight for the effective archiving of the practice’s collection, whilst simultaneously managing the evolving library of digital assets containing over 80,000 images and videos. She continues to oversee and direct the implementation of conservation and preservation strategies, as well as the storage and digitization of the physical items of the Zaha Hadid collection. Her liaison with external organisations and third parties allows ZHA to share the collection through exhibitions, publications and third party loans globally. As the Head of Exhibitions and Archives, Manon holds responsibility for every aspect of exhibition planning; controlling all financial and legal as well as logistical agreements, overseeing the installation and dismantling of exhibitions, securing all loans to third parties with renowned institutions such as The State Hermitage, the Venice Biennale and the Royal Academy. Manon holds editorial control for exhibitions catalogues, websites and all related physical and digital marketing material.

Shajay Booshan is an Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects where he co-founded and heads the research activities of the Computation and Design (CoDe) group. He also works as a studio master at the AA DRL Master’s program in London. He pursues his research in structure and fabrication-aware architectural geometry as a PhD Candidate at the Block Research Group, ETH Zurich. He has completed his M.Phil from the university of Bath and M. Arch from the AA, London. Shajay’s current interests & responsibilities include developing design-research and maintaining computational platforms for the same at ZHA. He has taught and presented work at various professional conferences, events and institutions such as Politecnico di milano ‘17, DigitalFutures ‘17,Tensinet ’16, AAG ‘16, simAud ’15 and ‘14 and ‘10, Ingenio ’13, Tensinet ‘13, ICFF Bath ‘12 , Designers Gallery AU ’11, Design computation symposium AU ‘10 , Siggraph ‘08, ETH Zurich, Yale School of architecture and Universities of Applied Arts Vienna and experimental architecture Innsbruck , CITA , IAAC Barcelona, etc. THURSDAY 12 19:00 - 20:30 IE London Office Lounge 96 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 4SG

Future Common Grounds: Practice, Workspace, Cities. Franquibel Lima (Wework), Jeremy Myerson (RCA), Jack Pringle (Perkins+Will) Joint event with Master in Strategic Design of Spaces & Prospective Students

Franquibel Lima is a Cape Verdean who grew up in Lisbon, Portugal where he became an architect before moving to London and starting his unexpected journey. While working at Foster+Partners, for over a decade, he was involved in projects across the globe with a variety of scales and typologies. Through this experience he developed an interest in the dynamics between people designing and people experiencing design. After living in Abu Dhabi, São Paulo and New York, he returned to London to join WeWork as a Design Director for Europe. At WeWork, Franquibel leads an in-house multidisciplinary design team responsible for delivering spaces that aim to inspire professionals to do what they love.

Jeremy Myerson is an academic and author specialising in design and innovation. He is Director of the WORKTECH Academy, a new global knowledge network exploring the future of work and workplace, and holds the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the Royal College of Art. He is also a Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Institute for Population Ageing, . An authority on workplace design and innovation, Jeremy Myerson founded Design Week magazine in 1986 and later, in 1999, co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, the Royal College of Art’s largest centre for de- sign research, which he directed for 16 years. The author of more than 20 books in the field, his most recent titles include Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life (2014) and Life of Work (2015). He has spoken at leading events around the world and sits on the advisory boards of design institutes in Korea, Switzerland and Hong Kong. He was recently named by Wired magazine as one of Britain’s 100 most influential people in digital technology.

Jack Pringle studied architecture at the University of Bristol and began his career at Powell Moya. He set up Jack Pringle Architects in 1981 before founding Pringle Brandon in 1986 and has been Managing Director for Perkins+Will’s London office since 2012. Jack has run many successful major fit-out and new build projects. He is hightly experienced in strategic brief taking and assisting clients in understanding the benefits of alternative design solutions. Jack is the immediate past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). His cli- ents include Allen & Overy, Barclays, Rothchild, Diageo and UniCredit. As P+W Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa; Jack is now focussed on strategic growth and new client relationships in the EMEA region. FRIDAY 13 18:00 - 20:00 Architecture 00 Office (Hackney Central) 217 Mare Street, E8 3QE

A Hybrid Practice: Innovating Business Models in Architecture Janice Fung, Co-founder Architecture 00 & Social Entrepreneur

http://www.wantoday.com/inside_25_2012/profile.html http://www.architecture00.net/ https://twitter.com/00alice

Alice Fung is trained as an Architect, and works as such with an expanded approach that includes social entrepreneurship, regeneration consultancy and space management, among others. She is the director of several Hubs, including Impact Hub Islington, Westminster, Brixton, and Birmingham. She is a Future 100 winner for entrepreneurial flair and innovation in progressing a responsible business venture.

A significant part of this open-range activities are channeled and empowered through Architecture 00, which she co-founded in 2005. Since then, Architecture 00 has built a track record in delivering a broad range of activities relating to the shaping of the built environment. The office brings together skills in action-led research, urban design strategy, architecture and place making, with a detailed understanding of how the physical fabric of buildings can be accompanied by innovative, engaging and collaborative processes.

In addition to Architecture 00’s award-winning commissioned research and strategic work, their architectural projects, – ranging from education spaces, enterprise centres, co-working spaces and self-led housing masterplans to ultra-low-energy residential new build and refurbishment – have increasingly gained a reputation for excellence; in 2012, Arch 00 received four RIBA Awards, including a Sustainability Award and a Civic Trust Community Award. The office was short-listed for Young Architects of the Year Award and featured by Icon Magazine in their ‘Future 50’ issue on leading designers shaping the future. Architecture 00 has also been awarded the ‘Yorkshire Building of the Year’ alongside a Regional RIBA Award in 2014, and they are the recent winners of the London RIBA Building of the Year Award, plus a RIBA Regional Award for 2015.

*This bio has been put together by IE Arch Design for the purpose of this event, taking fragments of Alice Fung’s bios in the different institutions in which she performs a role. MONDAY 16 18:00 - 20:00 Chipperfield Architects Headquarters 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX (Tower)

Practice, Studio and Office Benito Blanco, Projects Director, Architects

Practice, as a methodology to design and build. + Studio, as a space to create ideas an concepts. + Office, as a tool to transform ideas and concepts into buildings. = Architecture, as an emergence of a balanced blend between a design-and-building-methodology, and a day-to-day working methodology. https://davidchipperfield.com/ (Check the Vicenza Exhibition, and the different office locations and their specific work)

Benito Blanco studied architecture in Spain and joined David Chipperfield Architects in 2014, becoming Associate Director in 2016. He has almost 20 years of experience at award-winning practices such as H&dM working on complex international projects and competitions. Previously to joining David Chipperfield Architects, Benito has worked on museums, offices, libraries, public spaces and residential development.

As Project Director for David Chipperfield Architects, Benito is responsible to establish a common sharing of knowledges and design approach across projects encouraging a consistent process of design methodology, research and development according to the goals of each project and throughout the office. Benito’s current projects include the transformation and extension of Selfridges in Oxford Street London, the conversion into a luxury hotel of the US Embassy in London designed by Eero Saarinen and the renovation and extension of the , the oldest art institution in Britain, and one of the most renowned. TUESDAY 17 18:00 - 20:00 Amanda Levette Headquarters 14A Brewery Road, London N7 9NH

The Open-Minded Practice: Spinoffs and Opportunity in Architecture Maximiliano Arrocet, Studio Director, Amanda Levette Architects. AL_A.

https://www.ala.uk.com/ https://twitter.com/AL_Atweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Maximiliano Arrocet (Bsc, M.Arch, Pg Dip Arch, Arb Registered), was made director of AL_A in 2012, having joined Amande Levette’s office in 2007. He led the design of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, and is currently working ad the lead in the development of the concept Design for Pitch/Pitch, the design for Maggie’s Southampton, and AL_A’s work for Goldman Sachs on their London Headquarters. Max also leads a number of private residetnail projects, and has an expertise in bespoke contemporary and historic detailing.

Max studied at the University of BAch and Westminster University, and has a strong understanding of construction techniques and materiality. His background in engineering and mutidisciplinar approach is reflected in projects at all scales, from complex building schemes, to groundbreaking installations.

Since the early years of AL_A, Max has significantly contributed to build a refined, intuitive and strategic approach to design in the office, that envisions a practice in which designs are conceptualised as urban projects not just buildings, and projects that express the identity of an institution, a city or a nation. Opportunities arise generally from this vision.

*This bio has been put together by IE Arch Design for the purpose of this event, taking fragments of Alice Fung’s bios in the different institutions in which she performs a role. WEDNESDAY 18 17:10 TO 19:10 AKT Headquarters White Collar Factory, 1 Old Street Yard, London EC1Y 8AF

DesignEngineeringDesign Hanif Kara, Principal and Design Director of AKT II

http://www.akt-uk.com/

Design research, is there a connection? The relationship between practice and academia, is it eroding? The value and business of design. What’s coming in construction, deliverance of designand technology?

DesignEnginneeringDesign: the dialectics between the doctrines, identifiable metrics and the traditions of structural engineering show a discipline characterised by polarised practice that is decisive; often mistakenly based on intuition and increasingly reliant on finite technology. Over the last two decades; The work of AKT II demonstrates a different characterisation born out of a contemporary approach to the discipline, a particular approach that bridges those qualities with design through dismantling traditional understanding of the discipline; in order to stay relevant. In this work, the most important characterisation of the practice remains weightless: creativity, rigour, passion, curiosity, incremental innovation and aesthetic appreciation. This then weaves through the projects and our encounters in the wider context of economic challenges, ecological denial and political transformation in the new world order.

Hanif Kara BSc (Hons) CEng FIStructE FICE FREng Hon FRIBA FRSA, Prof. in Practice of Arch. Technology GSD Harvard.

Hanif Kara is a practising engineer and a principal at London-based structural engineering company AKT II. Their work has seen successful collaborations with renowned developers, architects and academic institutions, driven by a reputation for delivery combined with a penchant for research, speculation and experimentation. Hanif is currently Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard and has published widely in technical journals and the industry on issues of design and interdisciplinary practice. Beyond his projects and academic commitments, Hanif’s larger global footprint has seen success that led to receiving the ACE Engineering Ambassador Award in 2011. He became the first engineer to be a judge for the annual coveted RIBA in 2011, and was the first structural engineer to be appointed Commissioner for CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, 2008-2012), and more recently he sat on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture’s latest cycle. THURSDAY 19 18:00 - 20:00 Foster & Partners Headquarters Riverside, 22 Hester Road, London, SW11 4AN

An Open Conversation About Practice and Design Leadership Stefan Behling, Head of Studio Foster & Partners. Moderated by José Alamar, Associate, Foster & Partners. Alumni MAMD11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Z5R69UWsw https://www.fosterandpartners.com/studio/people/partnership-board/stefan-behling/

.When Artificial Intelligence replaces designers and engineers how will practices generate value? .How do you envision Foster and Partners services in the future? .Where would you invest to maintain the competitive advantages that F+P has at the moment? .What are the benefits of splitting an office in smaller studios? .How would you ensure that a minimum design quality is met in every project? .What new sources of revenue would you chase if you directed F+P?

José Alamar, is a MAMD Alumni 2011, and current Associate at F+P, participating in a number of projects from the practice. José will contribute to enrich and facilitate the conversation with Stefan Behling.

Stefan Behling is a head of studio and a member of the Design Board at Foster + Partners. He has respon- sibility for an international portfolio of projects. He has a diploma in Architecture from the University of Aachen (RWTH) and joined the practice in 1987. Stefan is a passionate advocate of sustainable design. He leads the research and the use of new materials and methods in construction, and established the Material Research Centre (MRC). He is also responsible for the Specialist Modelling Group (SMG), a multi-disciplinary, project-driv- en research team consisting of architects, engineers, mathematicians, building physicists and environmental scientists who are experts in all aspects of environmental analysis, computational design and digital fabrication. Stefan has worked on a number of pioneer projects in energy-efficiency, including the , and many of the new Apple flagship stores around the world. He is also responsible for Oceanwide Center, a mixed-use development in and Kuwait International Airport, one of the largest and most ambitious concrete structures in the world. His recently completed projects include the Maggie’s Centre in Manchester, and the UK’s most sustainable office building, Bloomberg’s new European Headquarters in London. Some of his earlier projects include the Business Promotion Centre in Duisburg, Reichstag, Commerzbank Headquarters in , McLaren Technology Centre, , City Hall in London, Lenbachhaus in , Free University of Berlin and the carbon-neutral in Abu Dhabi. FRIDAY 20 17:30 - 19:30 Farshid Moussavi Architects Headquarters 12F, 130 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 5DJ

Realities of Practice Farshid Moussavi, Founder and Principal Farshid Moussavi Architects

https://twitter.com/farshidmoussavi https://www.farshidmoussavi.com/

Farshid Moussavi, OBE RA RIBA, is an architect and Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design. She was previously co-founder of the London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA). Moussavi has completed her first USA commission, the Museum of Contemporary Art in (2012), its installation at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2012), the Victoria Beckham Flagship Store in London (2014) and is currently working on a wide range of international projects including residential complexes in La Défense, Paris and in Montpellier, and an office complex in the , UK. At FOA, Farshid co-authored many award-winning projects including the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal and the Spanish Pavilion at the Aichi International Expo in Japan. The work of FOA has been widely published and exhibited, and represented Britain at the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002.

Farshid Moussavi trained at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University College London and Dundee University. She has subsequently taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Architectural Association, the Berlage Institute and the Hoger Architectuure Instituut, and in the at Columbia, Princeton and the University of California in Los Angeles. Since 2006, she has been Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University. She is the author of The Function of Ornament (2006), The Function of Form (2009) and the Function of Style (2015), based on her research and teaching at Harvard. All translated into several languages.

Farshid serves publicly as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Whitechapel Gallery as well as The Architecture Foundation in London. Previously she has been a member of the advisory group to the British Council, the Mayor of London’s ‘Design for London’ initiative, the International Design Committee for the London Development Agency and the RIBA for its Gold and Presidential medals, as well as the Stirling Prize for Architecture. In 2004, she was Chair of the Aga Khan Award Master Jury and has been a member of the Award’s Steering Committee since 2005. Since September 2011, Moussavi has been writing as a columnist for the Architectural Review magazine and, most recently in 2015, she was elected to be a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In 2018 she was awarded an OBE as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours. MONDAY 23 18:00 - 20:00 RIBA - Lutyens Room 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

Design Management and Regaining the Leadership Role Gerard Daws and Nick Willars, Founders and Principals, Plan A Consultants

https://www.planaconsultants.com/ https://twitter.com/plan_a_c?lang=en

Gerard Daws is a respected expert in the field of Design Management. After initially working overseas for several years for both Clients and Contractors. Gerard was responsible for establishing and leading the Design Management service line for Davis Langdon and then AECOM from 2010. Over fifteen years, he provided Design Management services for Architects on iconic and multi-disciplinary projects across the UK, Europe, America, North Africa and the Middle East. Gerard specializes in setting up and kicking off the design stage alongside the Architect so that the important factors for success and delivery can be identified and met. Gerard has written articles in the UK press and publications as well as regularly speaking at universities such as Reading and Loughborough.

Nick Willars is an ARB chartered architect with over 20 years’ experience working for and with established high profile practices encompassing leadership, strategy, management and design programming in a diverse range of sectors. As an architect Nick has successfully led several high profile and award winning projects in the UK, Middle East and Asia, varying in both scale and complexity and has a substantial technical understanding of the processes involved in managing consultant teams. Since turning to design management, Nick has extensive experience of working with many of the UK’s signature architects helping them define design strategies and delivery methodologies on large, complex projects all over the world and subsequently managing the process. From 2007 until 2014 Nick led the Design Management team at Buro Four before moving to AECOM prior to establishing Plan A. Nick was commissioned by RIBA Publishing to author “Project Leadership: RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Guide”. TUESDAY 24 18:00 - 20:00 RIBA - Lutyens Room 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

The Entrepreneur’s Journey: Mindset and Attitudes to Fail & Succeed Rodrigo García, Founder and Principal, Skipping Rocks Lab

http://www.skippingrockslab.com/ http://www.oohowater.com/

Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Skipping Rocks Lab, a London based start-up with the goal of making packaging disappear. The company is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, won the World Technology Award by Fortune and TIME, the WIRED start-up of the year and currently is the first Innovator in Residency of SKY.

Rodrigo received his architectural degree from the ETSAM, Technical University of , with honors, previously he studied at Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University () and Industrial Design at Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile). He did postgraduate studies at Umeå Institute of Design, Imperial College of London and Royal College of Art. His works have been shown in different artistic centers such as the Cite de l’Architecture of Paris and the Venice Biennale of Architecture. As a senior lecturer, he has collaborated with different universities and institutions as Cornell University, CEPT, Imperial College, Royal College of Art or Kingston University.

Skipping Rocks Lab is an innovative sustainable packaging start-up based in London. We are pioneering the use of natural materials extracted from plants and seaweed, to create packaging with low environmental impact. Their first product, Ooho, will revolutionise the water-on-the-go market. The spherical flexible packaging can also be used for other liquids including water, soft drinks, spirits and cosmetics, and their proprietary material is actually cheaper than plastic.

Their mission: to create waste-free alternatives to plastic bottles / cups / plates / you name it. Their vision: to become the leading global producer of seaweed-based packaging. Their Impact: to stop 1 bn plastic bottles reaching the ocean per year & 300 m. kg of CO2 from being emitted.