Dezeen Day is our international architecture and design conference taking place in London on 30 October. Scroll down for information about speakers, sessions, networking events, the venue and tickets.

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Overview

Dezeen Day aims to set the agenda for international architecture and design. Expect radical ideas, healthy debate and plenty of questions.

Panel discussions will feature short visual presentations by each panelist followed by a moderated discussion led by a member of the Dezeen editorial team. Questions will be taken from the audience, if time permits. Keynote lectures will end with a brief interview conducted by Dezeen Day host and Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs.

All talks will take place in the spacious NFT1 auditorium at BFI Southbank. Registration, breaks, lunch and post-conference drinks will take place in the adjacent Riverfront restaurant and bar, which is right beside the River Thames.

See the schedule below. Please note that the schedule is subject to change.

Registration and light breakfast

08:30 Coffee, tea and pastries served in the Riverside bar.

Welcome

09:00 Dezeen founder, editor-in-chief and Dezeen Day host Marcus Fairs welcomes everyone and introduces the day ahead.

Panel discussion: post-plastic materials

09:10 How can we solve the problems of plastic waste and what materials could replace it? This panel features some of the world’s most exciting young architects and designers pioneering new approaches to materials and manufacturing.

Speakers:

Arthur Mamou-Mani Architect and director of Mamou-Mani Architects and a specialist in digital fabrication and advanced bioplastics. Read more >

Natsai Audrey Chieza Designer and founder of research studio Faber Futures, which explores and creates biologically inspired materials. Read more >

Nienke Hoogvliet Designer exploring materials such as algae, recycled toilet paper and plastics made from waste water. Read more >

Panel discussion: entrepreneurs

09:55 How do you start a design-led company? How can architects and designers benefit from the value they create? Outstanding architecture and design entrepreneurs explain how they started their own brands and discuss how creatives can run successful businesses without compromising their creative vision.

Speakers:

Dara Huang Architect and founder of Design Haus Liberty and co-founder of co-living brand Vivahouse. Read more >

Benjamin Hubert Industrial designer and founder of Layer. Read more >

Additional speaker TBC.

Break

10:40 Networking and refreshments served in Riverside bar.

Panel discussion: fixing education

11:00 Is architecture and design education fit for purpose? What can we do to improve it? With recent criticism over the long-hours culture in education and concerns that students are not being prepared for the real world, this panel features leading educators with radically different approaches to the topic.

Speakers:

Patrik Schumacher Principal at Zaha Hadid Architects and founder of Design Research Unit at the Architecture Association. Read more >

Harriet Harriss Architect, author and Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn. Read more >

Stacie Woolsey A design graduate who created her own masters course after finding existing courses unaffordable. Read more >

Neil Pinder Architecture and design teacher at Graveney School, a secondary school in London.

Keynote: Paola Antonelli

11:45 Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, will discuss architecture and design today and the impact of her groundbreaking exhibition Broken Nature. Read more >

Lunch

12:30 Buffet lunch and networking in the Riverside bar.

Conversation: Designing for the circular economy

13:45 What is the circular economy and how do we design for it? How can buildings and products generate zero waste and zero pollution while nurturing, rather than harming, the natural world?

Speakers:

Andrew Morlet CEO of circular-economy advocacy organisation the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which has called for 20 million designers to help transform the global economy from linear to circular. Andrew will be in conversation with Marcus Fairs. Read more >

Panel discussion: future cities

14:15 What will the cities of the future look like? What technologies will transform them? Where and how will everyone live? How will they get around? How will they cope with climate change?

Speakers:

Paul Priestman Industrial designer and co-founder of transportation studio PriestmanGoode. Read more >

Suzanne Livingston Co-curator of the AI: More than Human exhibition held at the Barbican Centre this summer and a founding member of the influential Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick University.

Rachel Armstrong Professor of experimental architecture at Newcastle University, she is a pioneer of living architecture, an approach that seeks to give buildings some of the qualities of natural systems.

Break

15:00 Networking and refreshments in the Riverside bar.

Keynote: Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

15:20 Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist and designer whose work explores synthetic biology and the relationship between design and the natural world. Read more >

PechaKucha

16:05 A special edition of the rapid-fire presentation format featuring creatives with ideas that will make the world a better place. Hosted by PechaKucha founders and architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture. Read more >

Followed by Dezeen Day finale, details TBC.