The Future of the Modern City

Introduction

Programme

Location: Belgrade Theatre

0830 – 1000

Registration and Introduction

0830 – 0930

Registration and Refreshments

0930 – 0945

Welcome:
Leader of Coventry City Council – Cllr Ken Taylor
Chief Executive of Coventry City Council – Martin Reeves

0945 – 1000

Introduction by Symposium Chair: Charlie Luxton
– the face of architecture and design on Channel Five

1000 – 1245

Session 1

1000 – 1045

Innovation in Investment and Sustainability: James Woudhuysen
– Professor of Forecasting and Innovation, De Montfort University
(includes 10 minutes Q&A)

1045 – 1115

Break

1115 – 1200

Regeneration and Living: Wayne Hemingway MBE
– HemingwayDesign and Chairman of Building for Life
(includes 10 minutes Q&A)

1200 – 1245

Places: Oliver Schulze – Director of Gehl Architects, Copenhagen
(includes 10 minutes Q&A)

1245 – 1345

Lunch

1345 – 1700

Session 2

1345 – 1420

Buildings and Design: John Prevc
– Partner, Make Architects

1420 – 1455

Transport: Prof Glenn Lyons
– Director of the Centre for Transport and Society, UWE

1455 – 1525

Break

1525 – 1600

World City Exemplar: Gary Johnson – Seattle Center City Strategy, USA
FAST City of the Year 2009

1600 – 1630

Panel Discussion

1630 – 1700

Summing Up (Chair) and Thanks (Chief Executive)

Location: Coventry Transport Museum

1730 – 2000

Session 3

1730 – 1815

Refreshments

1815 – 1900

The City at Night: Mike Simpson – Design and Technical Director,
Philips Lighting and President of CIBSE

1900 – 2000

Lighting Demonstration Projects in Millennium Place

At the end of session 2, there will be one long discussion
involving all panel members and delegates, facilitated by the Chair.

Speaker notes and presentations will be available to download
from www.coventry.gov.uk/moderncity after the event.

Speakers

Charlie Luxton

Architectural design and TV Presenter

Charlie Luxton is an architectural designer who combines his design work with writing and presenting television programmes. He is passionate about the environment and communicating his enthusiasm for sustainable architecture and eco-friendly design.

Charlie studied at Oxford Brookes University for a BA in Architecture achieving a first class honours degree, before going on to complete an MA at the Royal College of Art in London. He worked for a number of architecture practices and then in 2000 became a founding director of Free State, the design and communications company that uses the built environment to create awareness far beyond the reach of traditional media.

Recent projects include Zoomorphic, an exhibition for the V&A and Electric Storm, a three month renewable energy event on the South Bank in London. In 2005 he left London and Free State to focus on sustainable housing.

As Charlie Luxton Environmental Design he is currently working on several sustainable housing projects in London, Wiltshire, and the Cotswolds where he now lives.

In 2008 Charlie became the face of Architecture and Design on Five. He presented the first series of I Own Britain's Best House and was later given access to landmark buildings, including the Bank of England, for Behind Closed Doors. His most recent projects for the channel include the returning series Build A New Life In The Country, and Best House On The Street. He has also completed filming on a second series of Vertical City for Gallery HD.

In 2007 Charlie filmed the ITV1 series Homes and Property and the first series of Vertical City . He also filmed a second programme in the Metropolis series on design and architecture in Los Angeles. He rounded off the year presenting a one off documentary for BBC Radio 4 entitled The Perfect House, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio. In 2006 Charlie filmed Artland USA for a US broadcaster which looked at architecture across America, and he completed a separate film on architectural design in Bali.

In 2005 Charlie presented Restored to Glory, a prime time BBC2 series covering architectural restoration, and conceived and presented a one hour documentary about biomemetics called Bionic Buildings for BBC3. In May 2004 Charlie hosted The Designer of the Year Awards for BBC4. He also presented two series of Dreamspaces for BBC3 in 2003.

In 2001 he presented and wrote Not All Houses Are Square - a three part series for Channel 4 followed by a second series Not All Bricks And Mortar with Tiger Aspect Productions which was transmitted in 2002.
In 2000, Charlie presented a six part series called Modern British Architects for Channel 5.

Charlie was born in Sydney, Australia and has lived in England since 1983.

Oliver Schulze

Architect AND Director FOR GEHL ARCHITECTS
Urban Quality Consultants, Copenhagen.

Based on the academic research carried out by Professor Jan Gehl and the Research Studio of Gehl Architects, Oliver advises public and private sector clients on projects of all scales to maximize people’s benefits in the planning of our urban environment. Oliver has worked on major city development projects across Europe, North and Central America, the Middle East and North Africa with the motivation to reconcile man’s functional and emotional needs in the design of the urban realm.

At the small scale Oliver’s work involves advising clients on the design of individual public spaces like the transformation of New Road at the Royal Pavilion Gardens in Brighton. The design proposals for New Road managed to transform a car- dominated and neglected back street into Brighton’s fourth most popular public space destination. This completed project has won several national awards and it is now recognised as a best practice benchmark for holistic street design in the United Kingdom.

International working experience has been gained as a member of integrated planning teams that have delivered tailored development proposals for complex projects. With work ranging in scale from entire new towns to individual building plots, all of Oliver’s work is rooted in the desire to make a positive impact on people’s lives by transforming the urban realm so that meaningful experiences can be gained. These positive individual and shared experiences are seen as the foundation for sustainable urban conditions in a physical environment in which people will continue to seek each others company and where they can relate to other people in mutually beneficial ways.

As an educator Oliver has lectured and taught in cities and universities internationally. In 2009 he has been appointed as guest critic in the final year design studio of the School of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. For the international architectural design competition EUROPAN 10 Oliver has been appointed as a jury member in the Netherlands. On a voluntary basis Oliver has lead a panel of experts to develop socioeconomic assessment criteria for the new German sustainable building certification system of the German Sustainable Building Council since 2007.

James Woudhuysen

Professor of Forecasting and Innovation
De Montfort University, Leicester

A St Paul’s School scholar and physics graduate, James went to Sussex, where he followed his degree with an MA at the Science Policy Research Unit. After that he pursued journalism, before going on to coordinate postgraduate studies at what is now London’s University of the Arts. For more than 20 years since that time, he has consulted for major corporations and for government.

The first job James had was as editor of Design magazine. In the late 1980s he was head of research at the international designers Fitch.

In the early and mid 1990s, James led consulting in IT at the Henley Centre, part of the WPP Group. There he also advised major UK cities – London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester – on international competitiveness. He then went on to manage worldwide market intelligence for Philips consumer electronics in the Netherlands, and to work as a director of the product designers Seymour Powell. He went independent in 2001.

James helps clients to master new trends in society and innovation, so as to implement major shifts in corporate strategy, marketing, branding and design. He frequently broadcasts about the future of the workplace on Radio 4’s You and Yours, and writes a regular column for IT Week (London), Novo (Frankfurt) and spiked-online. He is also on the editorial boards of New Design and the Journal of Consumer Behaviour.

James helped install and test Britain’s first computer-controlled car park, identified the user interface as the key issue in the design of IT, led an international multi-client study of consumer e-commerce, reorganised worldwide market intelligence at Philips Consumer Electronics, forecast today’s concerns with work-life balance, and influenced UK government policy in favour of the mass production of housing. He is a member of the board of the Housing Forum.

James has been published in German, Danish, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. About the future, he has consulted or given keynote speeches for 50 of the world's top corporations. Clients include Accenture, Amadeus, Arup, BT, Charities Aid Foundation, Konecranes, Hallmark UK, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Nokia, Orange, Roca bathrooms, Siemens, and Standard Life.

He is co-author of Why is construction so backward? (Wiley, 2004) and Energise! A future for energy innovation (Beautiful Books, 2009).

Wayne Hemingway

HemingwayDesign

Wayne Hemingway was born in 1961 in the typical seaside town, Morecambe. Maybe not the most appropriate surroundings for one of Britain’s most acclaimed designers, but then Wayne never has been very appropriate anyway.

Wayne’s earliest memories are of his mum and Nan dressing him up as Elvis, a Beatle or Tarzan and being paraded up and down Morecambe pier (evidence available!) or being held aloft in a wrestling ring by his Red Indian father, Billy Two Rivers. These early child-modeling stints went some way towards influencing the youth who was forever experimenting with styles and cultures and reinventing himself whenever the next big 'thing' came along. Northern Soul was discovered at the tender age of 13, then Disco, Punk, New Romantic and Rockabilly … the list goes on.

After spending most of his childhood being 'dragged' up in Blackburn, the young and multicultural Hemingway left school with 10 O’Levels and four A’Levels. In 1979 he went on to undertake another 'inappropriate' move for a future fashion designer by gaining a Degree in Geography and Town Planning at University College, London.

The move that sealed Wayne’s fate was taken to fuel funds for the band that he then played in (he says that he’s burned the evidence but we know where it is!). One day he decided to empty his wardrobe and that of his childhood sweetheart (now wife Gerardine) and took the contents to sell on Camden Market. The realisation that money could be made from fashion suddenly dawned.

With Gerardine, Wayne built Red or Dead into a label that received global acclaim resulting in winning the prestigious British Fashion Council’s Streetstyle Designer of the Year Award for an unprecedented three consecutive years in 1996, 1997 and 1998.

After 21 consecutive seasons on the catwalk at London Fashion Week, Wayne and Gerardine sold Red or Dead in a multi million cash sale.

In 1999, having sold Red or Dead they set up HemingwayDesign, which specialises in affordable and social design. The highest profile project is, The Staiths South Bank, a 800 property mass market housing project on Tyneside for Taylor Wimpey Homes where HemingwayDesign are involved from the master planning, the architecture through to the landscaping and marketing of this groundbreaking project .Over 400 homes are now lived in and The Staiths has won a series of high profile awards including Housing Design Awards (best large project) and Building Magazine’s 'Best Housing-Led Regeneration Project' as well as a Building For Life and the highest rating of any large scale scheme in a recent CABE audit.

Other housing projects include a new settlement of 3000 homes in Lothian and a city centre affordable apartment regeneration in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, The Birchin.

They have worked with West Lancs Council and English Partnerships on a 12 month project to create a new vision and then a masterplan for 60's new town Skelmersdale .Working with Copeland Borough Council and the North West Development Agency, HemingwayDesign worked on a vision for Whitehaven.

HemingwayDesign’s other projects have included the highly acclaimed new club for the Institute of Directors on Pall Mall, IOD at 123, consultancies, The 4 Walls range of wall coverings for Graham and Brown, technology 'Wet', a tile range for British Ceramic Tiles and product, packaging and graphic design. (current + recent clients include Sainsburys ,Sky Plus, Wanadoo, Boddingtons, Sony, The Royal Mail and The Caravan Club. A range of sustainable sheds and water butts (what are they shaped like? you guessed it … bottoms!!), outdoor furniture exclusive to B & Q hits the stores this spring and the Roadrunner fold up bike range aimed at housebuilders and businesses is now available.

The next major initiative in urban design is the re working of a 'tired' large social housing development in Maidenhead. Other projects include books (his coffee table art book ‘Just Above the Mantelpiece’ was published by Booth Clibborn Editions in 2000 and Mass Market Classics was published by Rotovision in 2003)

Wayne is the Chairman of Building for Life, a CABE (Commission for Architecture and The Built Environment) funded organization that promotes excellence in the quality of design of new housing. He is currently a London Leader part of the London Sustainability Commission.

He got an MBE in June 06 Queens Birthday List is a Professor in The Built Environment Department of Northumbria University, a Doctor of Design at Wolverhampton , Lancaster and Stafford and a Fellow of Blackburn College (Just call him Prof Doc, Doc, Doc Wayne Hemingway MA, BSc Esquire).

Spring 2009 has seen some great initiatives launched. The 'Starter for Ten' programme in Gateshead is 'doing the right thing' for creative start ups www.hemingwaydesign.co.uk/html/ideas.html , and the KioskiosK creative kiosk concept has launched in conjunction with the Design Museum’s Super Contemporary Exhibition and the London Leaders programme. The Window Of Opportunity garden exhibit at Chelsea Flower Show 2009 won a silver medal and HemingwayDesign has led one of the most quirky regeneration projects in the UK - the incredibly successful venture with Bournemouth Council - the Boscombe Overstrand. Oh yes and Wayne and his son Jack turned The Tate into a silent disco!!

The project that is exciting Wayne and the team the most at the moment is Vintage at Goodwood a major new annual event commencing in August 2009.

He is a writer for architectural and housing publications as well as a judge of international design competitions including the regeneration of Byker in Newcastle and Salford in Greater Manchester and the Stirling Prize, Europan and a TV design commentator.

John Prevc

Partner, Make Architects

Since joining Make in 2004 John has been responsible for many significant schemes including the University of Nottingham, St Johns School in Kent, and urban masterplans for Edinburgh Waterfront and the Elephant and Castle, London. Prior to Make John worked at Foster and Partners on the design of numerous prestigious projects including Dresden Railway Station, the new Channel Tunnel Rail Terminal, The British Museum, and City Academy projects. He has taught at several architectural schools and has written a regular column for the Architects Journal.

Make is a studio of highly creative and imaginative architects and designers, committed to designing buildings, spaces and places which are as striking and innovative as they are socially, economically and environmentally responsible. The practice was founded by Ken Shuttleworth in 2004 and has already established itself as one of the UK’s foremost architectural firms, with studios based in London, Birmingham, Beijing, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Their first award-winning building was completed within two years of the practice being founded, and they are currently engaged in a broad range of projects worldwide, from residential towers, office developments, transport hubs and urban masterplans, to civic and education buildings, low cost housing projects and interior and product design. Their design teams have an exceptional range of talent and experience and have acquired considerable professional experience designing advanced, complex and iconic buildings. They combine this skill and technical maturity with a fresh questioning attitude and a hands-on approach, and are constantly looking to related disciplines and new technologies which will help them develop their design solutions to the optimum standard. Make is a different kind of architectural practice. They have created a studio environment where preconceptions do not limit innovation and creativity is not stifled by hierarchy. These values create a stimulating and energetic working atmosphere in which their teams can focus on producing exciting, ground-breaking buildings that will enhance the lives of all who use them. Make is a 100 per cent employee-owned organisation.

Their work ranges in scale from product design to urban masterplanning, with budgets extending from low-cost to luxury. Regardless of its size, context or scope, they approach each project as a unique challenge and an exciting opportunity to develop the most dynamic and efficient design response. The design process starts with listening to their clients and developing a creative and logical response to their needs and aspirations for a particular project. Designing for people is fundamental to this process. They aim to create buildings which improve lives and are a joy to use, which are financially viable and create value, and which minimise environmental impact and optimise energy efficiency. They design to meet current needs and anticipate future developments, so that they can build for the future as much as the present. An appreciation of place is also essential to their working process; they never resort to a fixed architectural language, but work in response to the particularities of a site and consider the use of local materials where relevant so that their schemes are rooted in their context. They use sketches, models and state-of-the-art digital tools to explore and refine their designs, translating these schemes into reality by drawing on an exceptional network of knowledge and experience that embraces every aspect of a building’s design, construction and performance. They are committed to the design of buildings which minimise environmental impact and optimise energy efficiency, both in terms of initial construction and cost in use. They also possess the knowledge and expertise required to achieve this; their design teams have extensive, hands-on experience of working with sustainable technologies and integrating them within their design proposals.

For Make, energy efficiency in architecture is not a ‘bolt-on’ remedy: it is a considered and wide-reaching questioning process which permeates every level of the design process. And, while they are passionate about the environment and architecture’s impact on it, they are never dogmatic. Their drive to create energy-efficient buildings does not prioritise novelty over performance and they are always open to using traditional technologies and local materials, expertise and manufacturers where these provide the best solution. With each project they develop a bespoke energy strategy which is entirely adapted to the building, its context, and its life in use.

As a practice, they believe that building for the future can only be achieved by a combination of imagination and pragmatism – by thinking both macro and micro. Above all, they believe that environmental awareness should not be viewed as a limitation of architectural potential, but as an exciting challenge which will produce a new generation of compelling, dynamic and environmentally-responsible buildings, design, construction and performance.

Glenn Lyons

Professor of Transport and Society, University of the West of England
founder and Director of the Centre for Transport & Society (CTS)

Glenn is founder member of the CTS at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

With a team of over 25 transport planners and social scientists, Glenn’s aim, and that of CTS, is to improve and promote understanding of the inherent links between lifestyles and personal travel in the context of continuing social and technological change.

Glenn was formerly Director of the Transport Visions Network and Chairman of the Transport Planning Society - he has been Chairman of the UK’s Universities Transport Study Group until 2010.

In the field of traveller information Glenn acted for several years as an external advisor to the UK Department for Transport. He is a member of the international specialists network ‘ICT – Mobilising Persons, Places and Spaces’ and is a member of the US Transportation Research Board's Committee on Telecommunications and Travel Behaviour.

In 2008 he became a Trustee of London Transport Museum Limited.

Gary Johnson

Seattle Center City Strategy, USA

Gary Johnson leads the City of Seattle’s Center City Strategy, a broad-based initiative to develop compact, sustainable neighborhoods in Seattle’s urban core. The comprehensive approach embraces environmental sustainability as a guiding principle and looks holistically at elements such as transportation, land use and zoning, housing, parks and open space and public safety in guiding neighborhood development. Large areas of the downtown are being rezoned to accommodate growth, new streetcar lines are opening, light rail has just begun operating and new parks are under development. An initiative to help ensure that the amenities like schools that families need to thrive in urban neighborhoods is also under development. Some experts predict that the Puget Sound Region, of which Seattle is the largest city, could see its current population of 3 million people double within the next several decades. If the region’s forests, farmlands and water resources are to be preserved, it is imperative that growth be successfully attracted to urban centers and Seattle is the region’s largest.

Mr. Johnson has focused on downtown neighborhoods for the City of Seattle in a variety of capacities for the past 18 years. Prior to that, he worked for an NGO providing support to immigrants, refugees and other low income people in Seattle’s large public housing communities.

Mr. Johnson is active with several not-for-profit organizations and holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Washington.

Mike Simpson

Technical and Design Director, Philips Lighting
President, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)

Mike Simpson began his career with Philips in 1977, working in the company’s lighting lab after graduating from South Bank University with a BSc Hons in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Mike undertook numerous technical and design roles and was responsible for external lighting projects including Tower Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral and Blackpool’s Pepsi-Max roller coaster.

In 2003 Mike became the Technical and Design Director Philips Lighting UK. His expertise has been valuable on projects including the lighting of Buckingham Palace, The O2 as well as urban street lighting designs and consumer lighting applications.

In May 2009, Mike was appointed President of CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers). The professional body is regarded as a standard setter and authority on building services engineering. He has spearheaded the institution’s drive to create sustainable buildings of the future and update buildings of the past with energy efficient alternatives. Prior to this, Mike has been President of the Institution of Lighting Engineers and President of the Society of Light and Lighting.

With over 30 years of experience in lighting Mike advises the Government on energy policy making. Additionally, Mike has been involved in the preparation of international lighting standards and has presented many papers at national and international lighting conferences. He is currently a guest lecturer on the MSc in Light and Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture and on the BA in Lighting Design at Rose Bruford College, Sidcup.

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