Agenda
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Theme
Places in
Transition
Days
18 / 19 / 20 Sept
Dialogue & Participation — 18/09
Ideas & Perspectives — 19/09
Connection & Experience — 20/09
Places in Transition
Dialogue & Participation — 18/09
Ideas & Perspectives — 19/09
Connection & Experience — 20/09
Places in Transition
Day 01
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18 September
Dialogue & Participation
Day 02
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19 September
Ideas & Perspectives
Day 03
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20 September
Connection & Experience
Holiday Inn Tbilisi
Workshop Room 1
09:00 — 16:00
09:00 – 11:00
Memory Mapping: The Emotional Landscape of a City
Nikoloz Lekveishvili / Joan Gener Gonzales, h3o architects / TIMM Architecture — Georgia / Spain
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11:00 – 13:00
Imaginary Architecture: From Story to Sketch / The Silent Witness
Speaker to be confirmed — Georgia
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13:00 – 14:00
Break
14:00 – 16:00
After the Ruins: What Should We Rebuild?
Nutsa Nadareishvili / Giorgi Sulakauri, Teamtwo — Georgia
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Workshop Room 2
09:00 — 16:00
09:00 – 11:00
What If the Soviet Union Had Not Happened to Georgian Architecture?
Irakli Pipia / Tatia Gvineria — Georgia
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11:00 – 13:00
Crime Prevention in Environmental Design (CPTED)
Luka Kobalia, Landmark Studio — Georgia
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13:00 – 14:00
Break
14:00 – 16:00
Can AI Sell an Idea Before It Exists?
Rezi Kratsashvili / Nuka Mgeladze, Render.ge / Elia — Georgia / Spain
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Open Conversations
09:30 — 15:40
09:30 – 10:20
What Nobody Talks About
Wei Yap / Sandro Katsitadze, Wei Yap Architects / Dmark — Georgia / Australia
10:20 – 11:10
What Makes a Building Worth Saving? Rethinking Heritage, Memory and Architectural Value
Nikoloz Japaridze, Architects of Invention · Tatia Ghvineria, Independent Expert · Ada Yvars Bravo, Mangera Yvars Architects — Georgia
11:10 – 12:00
Can Cities Become More Resilient by Working With Nature Rather Than Against It?
Paata Shanshiashvili · Giorgi Gotsiridze · Michael Gräf, LAND · Jack William Taylor, A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE — Georgia / UK / Italy / Austria
12:00 – 12:50
Architecture Through Her Eyes
Marcelina Zielinska · Joseph Grima · Yevgeniya Pozigun · Nata Tatunashvili · Nino Mshvelidze — UK / Spain / Georgia / Italy
13:00 – 14:00
Break
14:00 – 14:50
Professional Communities in Transition
LFA · Nikoloz Lekveishvili · Takhmina Turdialieva · Vladislav Nedelev · Afet Mammadzade — Armenia / Georgia / Uzbekistan / Azerbaijan / RIBA Europe
14:50 – 15:40
Is Good Legislation the Basis for Good Architecture and Sustainable Spatial-Territorial Planning?
Nino Gventsadze — Georgia
Fireside Chat
10:00 — 16:30
10:00 – 10:45
Kaveh Dabiri / Vakho Makasarashvili
OMA / VIEM — Netherlands / Georgia
10:45 – 11:30
Marcelina Zelenska / Gvantsa Chubinidze
Chapman Taylor — UK / Georgia
11:30 – 12:15
Jack William Taylor / Vakho Makasarashvili
A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE / VIEM — UK / Georgia
12:15 – 13:00
Wei Yap / Michael Gräf
Wei Yap Architects / LAND — Australia / Austria / Italy
13:00 – 14:00
Break
14:00 – 14:45
Jaime Font / Gvantsa Kheladze
Mesura / Landmark Studio — Spain / Georgia
14:45 – 15:30
Bob Allies / Mariam Menabde
Allies and Morrison / Caucasus University — UK / Georgia
15:30 – 16:15
Amin Taha / Luka Kobalia
Groupwork / Landmark Studio — UK / Georgia
16:15 – 16:30
Closing & transition
Programme subject to change · Some sessions TBC
Main Stage — Expo Georgia
Main Stage
09:00 — 20:00
09:00 – 12:00
Registration
09:45 – 10:00
Opening Speech
Organiser — Georgia
10:00 – 10:20
Keynote — Cultivating the City
Bob Allies, Founding Partner, Allies and Morrison — UK / London
10:20 – 10:40
Keynote — Architecture as Layers of Belonging
Ada Yvars Bravo, Director and Founding Partner, Mangera Yvars Architects — Spain / UK
10:40 – 11:00
Keynote — Thinking With Water: What Design and Anthropology Consider That Planning Doesn’t
Wei Yap, Managing Partner, Wei Yap Architects · Amber Patterson-Ooi, Anthropologist — Australia / Georgia
11:00 – 11:40
Panel — Beyond Shelter: Rebuilding Homes, Identity and Belonging After War
Moderator: George Melashvili · Roman Grygoryshyn, Founder, Unicorn Capital (Ukraine) · Nutsa Nadareishvili, Co-Founder, Teamtwo (Georgia) · Giorgi Sulakauri (Georgia) · Marcelina Zielinska, Group Board Director, Chapman Taylor (UK / London)
11:40 – 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 – 12:20
Keynote — From Noun Before Verb to Verb Before Noun: How Architecture and Architects Regain Ethical Agency
Amin Taha, Architect, Groupwork — UK / London
12:20 – 12:40
Keynote — h3o architects: Architecture in Between
Joan Gener Gonzales, Founder, H3o — Spain
12:40 – 13:00
Keynote — Transition Through Climate: Designing for a Changing Planet
Luca Bussolino, Partner & Head of Strategy and Innovation, Carlo Ratti Associati — Italy / USA
13:00 – 13:20
Keynote — Alcova, The Itinerant Design Platform
Valentina Ciuffi, Alcova and Studio Vedèt — Italy / Milan
13:20 – 14:00
Panel — Demolish or Transform? The Future of Existing Architecture
Moderator: Irakli Pipia · Givi Machavariani, Adjara Group (Georgia) · Nikoloz Japaridze, Architects of Invention (Georgia / UK) · Joan Gener Gonzales, H3o (Spain) · Kaveh Dabiri, OMA (Netherlands)
14:00 – 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 – 15:20
Keynote — Transition Through Heritage: Preserving Memory, Designing Tomorrow
Kaveh Dabiri, Partner, OMA — Netherlands
15:20 – 15:40
Keynote — The Future Grows: Landscape Thinking for a Nature Positive Future
Michael Gräf, Managing Partner, Land srl — Austria / Italy
15:40 – 16:00
Keynote — Two Approaches, One Transition: Lessons From Folkestone and Southampton for Georgia
Jack William Taylor, Associate Director, A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE — UK
16:00 – 16:20
Keynote — Form Follows Fantasy
Pablo Sensat Moya-Angeler, Project Leader / Project Manager / Design Lead, Bofill — Spain
16:20 – 16:40
Keynote — Core Mission, Vision and Values of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Vladislav Nedelev, Eastern Europe Area Representative, RIBA — Bulgaria
16:40 – 17:00
Keynote — Sons of Recession
Jaime Font, Co-Founder & Partner, Mesura — Spain
17:00 – 17:20
Keynote — TBC
Georgia
17:20 – 18:00
Panel — City as Shared Project
Pablo Sensat Moya-Angeler, CEO, Bofill (Spain) · Nodar Adeishvili, CEO / Partner, Placemakers (Georgia) · Amin Taha, Founder, Groupwork (UK / London) · Jaime Font, Co-Founder & Partner, Mesura (Spain)
18:00 – 18:40
Panel — Places in Transition
Moderator: Nikoloz Lekveishvili · Bob Allies, Co-Founder, Allies and Morrison (UK / London) · Michael Gräf, Managing Partner, Land srl (Austria / Italy) · Giorgi Gotsiridze, Co-Founder, GeoGraphic (Georgia) · Yevgeniya Pozigun (Spain / UK)
18:40 – 18:50
Closing Speech
20:00
Gala Dinner
Programme subject to change · Some sessions TBC
Across Tbilisi — Tours, Studios & Museums
City Tours
11:00 — 19:00
11:00 – 15:00
Gldani Tour
Ana Ramazashvili — markets, Soviet apartment blocks and the changing public spaces of a suburb that reads as a city of its own.
11:00 – 17:00
Old Tbilisi Gems — Melik-Azaryants House: Beneath the Surface
Irakli Pipia — newly uncovered underground spaces and historic halls beneath Rustaveli Avenue.
15:00 – 17:00
Public Art and the Transformation of Industrial Heritage
Combinati — Tbilisi Public Art Fund installations, Kombinati in Samgori, and Elektrovark.
16:00 – 19:00
Dezerters Bazaar
Ana Ramazashvili — Georgia’s first soundwalk, an immersive audio route through the central market built on migrants’ stories.
17:00 – 19:00
Tbilisi’s Cultural Life (tour in Georgian)
Sovlabi — caravanserais, museums, theatres, cinemas, cafés, clubs and bookshops along Rustaveli Avenue.
Architecture Studios
13:00 — 19:00
13:00 – 15:00
Office Visit and B2B Networking (invitation only)
Render.ge
17:00 – 19:00
Studio visit
Studio 9
Museums
10:00 — 17:00
10:00 – 17:00
Fine Art Museum
13:00 – 15:00
“Ezologia — Porous Body of Tbilisi” exhibition
Ubani
15:00 – 17:00
“Ezologia — Porous Body of Tbilisi” exhibition
Ubani
Programme subject to change · Some sessions TBC
