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NFI Master’s Programme on Sustainable Cities

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Why study the Master’s Programme on Sustainable Cities?

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We combine the best of academia with hands-on experience in cities, working with mayors and civic leaders

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Our Centre for City Science introduces you to the digital tools that use data to analyse and predict the effects of design interventions

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You will engage with our network of global experts on every aspect of cities and urbanism

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What will you learn?

Our programme

Preparing city-makers, urban designers and architects

The recurring theme that those who have experienced the Master’s Programme in Sustainable Cities—with specialisations in City Science, Urban Design and Architecture—mention is its unique fusion of academia and the experience of working in a city on live projects. Add to this the learning of digital tools to analyse and explore decision making in the civic realm and it explains why so many have described the course as ‘life-changing’

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Stage 1

Foundations

Define urban context and sustainable strategies

The Foundations stage defines sustainable development goals for the NFI Pilot Cities. This stage draws a retrospective of history and government to better understand the framework for project impacts.

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Stage 2

Diagnosis

Create and measure metrics of environmental, social and cultural research

The diagnosis stage provides an integrated understanding of different spaces for transformation. Students develop a diagnosis of six thematic layers: climate, mobility, public spaces, resources, culture and economy.

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Stage 3

Interventions

Training professionals through three specialisations: City Science, Urban Design and Architecture

Interventions enable vision for urban strategies that reduce embodied carbon and operational emissions while promoting public health and connecting communities.

Specialisations

Projects in the pilot cities defined at three levels

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City Science

Led by Norman Foster and Dr Gareth Simons

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Urban Design

Led by Norman Foster and Prof. Vishaan Chakrabarti

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Architecture

Led by Norman Foster and Prof. Frédéric Migayrou

City Science

Led by Norman Foster and Dr Gareth Simons

Students focusing on City Science explore how evidence and data-informed urban analysis can support vibrant, liveable and sustainable cities. Grounded in real-world data and contextual constraints from pilot cities, it integrates theory, technical training and applied analysis to address targeted urban challenges. With a focus on compact, walkable and inclusive urbanism, students learn to evaluate, design and communicate actionable interventions using advanced urban analytics. This specialisation teaches skills in GIS, Python, data science and spatial analysis, preparing students to support meaningful urban change through evidence-based design and policy.

The intersecting patterns of streets and buildings, pedestrians and land uses, represent a confluence of the dynamic flows that animate our cities and the spatial forms through which we, in turn, engage with these. This constant stream of social, economic and material exchange underpins urban life. Yet, cities do more than contain these interactions; they actively intensify them. By drawing people and opportunities into closer proximity while multiplying the number of ways we can interact, cities generate ever more richly interconnected networks of potential. In this amplification lies the distinctive power of cities: broader access to services and opportunity, social and economic exchange, knowledge and discovery, innovation and adaptation.

When designed effectively, cities can magnify access to these potentials while simultaneously reducing per capita energy use and environmental impact. In this, we can learn from both historic and planned cities: particular arrangements of buildings and land uses in relation to streets and public spaces provide an efficient interface between people and the unfolding spatial dynamics of urban life. This reframes the city as a living network of relationships rather than a static collection of objects, and calls for an approach that emphasises access to these connections at the pedestrian scale. This spatial coupling relies on a specific type of urban form: compact and walkable, granular and mixed-use, public and inclusive. This form of urbanism is inherently resilient and adaptable, accommodating both routine patterns and the unplanned, spontaneous evolution of activities over time.

While urban theory has long emphasised these characteristics, an emerging evidence base increasingly validates the role of human-scaled urbanism. This evidence highlights the critical importance of pedestrian-scale connectivity—whether to jobs and schools or green spaces and services. It shows that cities can be designed to address urgent challenges: improving public health in the face of car dependency, advancing sustainability amidst climate change and enhancing liveability in an era of rapidly expanding cities. These findings not only confirm the need for compact, walkable, green and mixed-use cities, but also offer increasingly actionable ways to inform the design process and guide the creation of effective policy.

Importantly, these insights are now increasingly measurable. They can be used to evaluate different arrangements of urban form to better understand why some cities work well and others less so. When applied with spatial precision, they can help diagnose localised challenges and guide the strategic prioritisation of streets to address targeted issues and opportunities. These approaches support iterative design processes through measurement and real-world feedback mechanisms and enable comparative evaluation for scenario testing and stakeholder engagement.

In this course, these methods are actively applied through the collaboration with pilot cities, leveraging analytical tools and spatial data to generate place-specific insights that reflect real-world constraints and stakeholder priorities. The resulting framework empowers students to craft proposals merging ambition with context-sensitivity, ultimately towards measurable strategies designed to support the emergence of successful cities.

ACADEMIC COUNCIL

Meet the Master’s Programme on Sustainable Cities’ world-class experts guiding the civic leaders of the future

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Norman Foster

President and Programme Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | President, Norman Foster Foundation (NFF); Advocate to the United Nations Forum of Mayors

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Elena Ochoa Foster

Vice-President, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Vice-President, Norman Foster Foundation (NFF); CEO, Ivorypress

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Edgar Pieterse

Edgar Pieterse

Provost, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Founding Director, African Centre for Cities; Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Dava J. Newman

Honorary Dean, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Director, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Kent Larson

Programme Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Director, City Science Research Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States

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Alejandro Aravena

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Executive Director, ELEMENTAL; Copec Chair, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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Shigeru Ban

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Founder and Principal Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan

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Deborah Berke

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Dean, Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

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Vishaan Chakrabarti

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Founder and Creative Director, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), New York, NY, United States

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Beatriz Corredor

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Former Minister of Housing, Spanish Government; President, Red Eléctrica, Madrid, Spain

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Ian Goldin

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Founding Director and Professor of Globalisation and Development, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Andrés Jaque

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Dean, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; Founder, Office for Political Innovation, New York, NY, United States

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Francis Diebedo Kéré

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Founder, Kéré Architecture and Kéré Foundation, Berlin, Germany

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Frédéric Migayrou

Frédéric Migayrou

Scientific Director, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Chair and Bartlett Professor of Architecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom; Deputy Director of the MNAM-CCI at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

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Tim Stonor

Tim Stonor

General Advisor, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | Managing Director, Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom

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Maria Vassilakou

Associate Director of City Advisory and Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) | CEO, Vassilakou Urban Consulting GmbH; Former Vice Mayor, Vienna, Austria

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Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Mayor of Freetown, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Joseph G. Allen

Associate Professor; Director, Healthy Buildings Program, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor

Research Scientist, City Science Group; Principal Investigator, Andorra Living Lab Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States

Pierandrea Angius

Studio Master, Architectural Association (AA), Design Research Lab (AADRL), London, United Kingdom; Senior Consultant, Ferrari S.p.A., Modena, Italy; Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, London Design Studio, Pennsylvania, PA, United States

Alejandro Aravena

Executive Director, ELEMENTAL; ELEMENTAL Copec Chair, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Kevin Austin

Deputy Executive Director, C40 Cities, London, United Kingdom

Shigeru Ban

Founder and Principal Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan

Diego Antonio Barrado Timón

Co-Director, NFI Programme on Sustainable Cities; Senior Lecturer of Human Geography, Department of Philosophy and Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Deborah Berke

Dean, Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution; Associate Faculty and Special Friend, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Frédérick Bordry

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Gauss Fusion; CERN Honorary Member - Special Advisor to the CERN DG; Former CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland

Ricky Burdett

Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

Caitlin Burton

Senior Vice President of Partnerships, Zipline International, Paris, France

Juan Carlos Calanchini González Cos

Academic Coordinator; Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

David Calas

Director, Studio Calas, Vienna, Austria

José Manuel Calvo

PhD Architect and Urban planner; Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, IE University, Madrid Spain

María del Carmen Calvo Poyato

President of the State Council, Madrid, Spain

Juan Ramón Campos Blázquez

Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM); Board Member, People4, Madrid, Spain

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain; Founder and Creative Director, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), New York, NY, United States

Claudia Chwalisz

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DemocracyNext, Marseille, France

Beatriz Colomina

Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies (PhD programme), School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Beatriz Corredor

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); Former Minister of Housing, Spain; President, Red Eléctrica, Madrid, Spain

Catherine Cummings

CSR and Public Affairs Director, Sanitas and Bupa, Madrid, Spain

Raül Daussà-Pastor

Consulting Director, Anteverti, Barcelona, Spain

Paloma Díaz Pena

Lead Architect, Norman Foster Institute (NFI-NFF), Madrid, Spain

Gemma Durán Romero

Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Eduardo Estrada Alonso

Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Óscar Fanjul

Founding Chairman and Former CEO, Ferrovial, Madrid, Spain

Norman Foster

Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); President, Norman Foster Foundation (NFF), Madrid, Spain

Sheila Foster

Professor, Climate School; Affiliated Faculty, Law School, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Beatrice Galilee

Founder and Executive Director, The World Around, New York, NY, United States

Beatriz Gandarillas Gutiérrez

Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Cristina Garrido

CEO, Anteverti; Curator Smart City Expo World Congress-Events Abroad; Director CitiesToBe, Barcelona, Spain

Beatriz Gil Gómez de Liaño

Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Ian Goldin

Founding Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Pedro González Torroba

Advisor to the Office of the Mayor of Madrid; Associate Proffesor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Carmen Hidalgo Giralt

Co-Director, NFI Programme on Sustainable Cities; Associate Professor of Human Geography, School of Philosophy and Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Morris [Marty] Hylton III

President, Architecture Sarasota, Sarasota, FL, United States

Cristina Iglesias

Installation Artist and Sculptor, Cristina Iglesias Studio, Madrid, Spain

Andrés Jaque

Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, NY, United States; Founder, Office for Political Innovation, New York, NY, United States and Madrid, Spain

Francis Diebedo Kéré

Founder, Kéré Architecture and Kéré Foundation, Berlin, Germany

Claudia van der Laag Yamu

Professor of Urban Analytics, Department of Built Environment, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

Anne Lacaton

Co-founder and Co-director, Lacaton et Vassal Architectes, Paris, France

Kent Larson

Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute, Madrid, Spain; Director, City Science Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States

David Andrés León

Director, Master in Advanced Computation for Architecture and Design (MaCAD), Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain

Mattia Federico Leone

Associate Professor, Università di Napoli Federico II (UNINA), Naples, Italy; Co-Director, Urban Climate Change Research Network European Hub

Susan Liautaud

Chair of Council, Board of Trustees, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom; Founder and Managing Director, Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, London, United Kingdom

Luis Lloredo

Professor of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy, Universidad Carlos III; Ramón y Cajal Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Diego López Urruchi

Associate Director, Architecture and Technology Unit, Norman Foster Foundation (NFF), Madrid, Spain

Júlia López Ventura

Regional Director, C40 Europe, Madrid, Spain

Niklas Maak

Arts Editor Frankfurter Allgemeine, Frankfurt, Germany

Gosia (Małgorzata) Marczewska

Co-founder of PLAN ZERO, Warsaw, Poland

Irene Martín Luque

Head of Research, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

Lorena Martínez González

Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Gregorio Maya

City Science Coordinator, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

José María Michavila

Former Minister of Justice of Spain, Madrid, Spain

Emanuele Naboni

Visiting Researcher and Associate Professor of Sustainable and Climatic Design, Institute of Architecture and Technology, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark; Distinguished Professor, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Jonathan Natanian

Founder, studioADAPT; Assistant Professor, Head of EDPL Lab Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Carmen Navarro Gómez

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Dava J. Newman

Director, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States

Henk Ovink

Executive Director and Founding Commissioner, Global Commission on the Economics of Water, OECD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

David Pascual-Ezama

Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Gil Penalosa

Founder & Chair, 880 Cities; Founder, Cities for Everyone, Toronto, ON, Canada

Carmen Pérez Esparrells

Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Public Finance, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Antoine Picon

G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Director of Doctoral Programmes, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Edgar Pieterse

Founding Director, African Centre for Cities; Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Olivia Poston

Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

Carlo Ratti

Director, Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States; Founding Partner, CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Turin, Italy; Curator, 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

Hermógenes del Real Álvarez

Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Glyn Richards

Group Sustainability Director, Bupa, London, United Kingdom

Flora Roumpani

Research Associate, The Alan Turing Institute; Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

Susana Saiz

PhD in Architecture; Director, Ove Arup & Partners, Madrid, Spain. WELL AP & Faculty, LEED AP, ILFI Accredited

Marco Sammicheli

Director, Museo del Design Italiano; Curator, Design, Fashion & Crafts, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy

Juan Ignacio Sánchez Gutiérrez

Associate Professor, Department of Economic Structure and Development Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Gareth Simons

Head of City Science, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); Senior Research Fellow in Building Stock and Energy Modelling (Energy Institute); Research Fellow in Evidence Based Urban Design and Planning (Space Syntax), Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

Francesco Sindico

Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow, Scotland - UK on secondment with the Scottish Government as Carbon Neutral Islands project lead

Tim Stonor

Architect and Urban Planner; Managing Director, Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom

Amin Taha

Director, Groupwork; Tutor, ADS5 Architecture MA, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

Sergio Tirado Herrero

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Elena Tudela Rivadeneyra

Co-Founder, Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana (ORU); Associate Professor, Urban Environmental Area, School of Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico

Maria Vassilakou

Founder and CEO, Vassilakou Urban Consulting GmbH; Former Vice Mayor, Vienna, Austria

Naiara Vegara Gorroño

Vice President, Metropoli Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Mark Antony Wigley

Professor of Architecture; Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Catherine De Wolf

Director, Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA); Professor of Circular Engineering for Architecture; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Liang Xu

Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI)

Carolina Yacamán Ochoa

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Mayor of Freetown, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Joseph G. Allen

Associate Professor; Director, Healthy Buildings Program, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor

Research Scientist, City Science Group; Principal Investigator, Andorra Living Lab Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States

Pierandrea Angius

Studio Master, Architectural Association (AA), Design Research Lab (AADRL), London, United Kingdom; Senior Consultant, Ferrari S.p.A., Modena, Italy; Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, London Design Studio, Pennsylvania, PA, United States

Alejandro Aravena

Executive Director, ELEMENTAL; ELEMENTAL Copec Chair, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Kevin Austin

Deputy Executive Director, C40 Cities, London, United Kingdom

Shigeru Ban

Founder and Principal Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan

Diego Antonio Barrado Timón

Co-Director, NFI Programme on Sustainable Cities; Senior Lecturer of Human Geography, Department of Philosophy and Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Deborah Berke

Dean, Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution; Associate Faculty and Special Friend, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Frédérick Bordry

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Gauss Fusion; CERN Honorary Member - Special Advisor to the CERN DG; Former CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland

Ricky Burdett

Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

Caitlin Burton

Senior Vice President of Partnerships, Zipline International, Paris, France

Juan Carlos Calanchini González Cos

Academic Coordinator; Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

David Calas

Director, Studio Calas, Vienna, Austria

José Manuel Calvo

PhD Architect and Urban planner; Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, IE University, Madrid Spain

María del Carmen Calvo Poyato

President of the State Council, Madrid, Spain

Juan Ramón Campos Blázquez

Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM); Board Member, People4, Madrid, Spain

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain; Founder and Creative Director, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), New York, NY, United States

Claudia Chwalisz

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DemocracyNext, Marseille, France

Beatriz Colomina

Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies (PhD programme), School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Beatriz Corredor

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); Former Minister of Housing, Spain; President, Red Eléctrica, Madrid, Spain

Catherine Cummings

CSR and Public Affairs Director, Sanitas and Bupa, Madrid, Spain

Raül Daussà-Pastor

Consulting Director, Anteverti, Barcelona, Spain

Paloma Díaz Pena

Lead Architect, Norman Foster Institute (NFI-NFF), Madrid, Spain

Gemma Durán Romero

Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Eduardo Estrada Alonso

Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Óscar Fanjul

Founding Chairman and Former CEO, Ferrovial, Madrid, Spain

Norman Foster

Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); President, Norman Foster Foundation (NFF), Madrid, Spain

Sheila Foster

Professor, Climate School; Affiliated Faculty, Law School, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Beatrice Galilee

Founder and Executive Director, The World Around, New York, NY, United States

Beatriz Gandarillas Gutiérrez

Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Cristina Garrido

CEO, Anteverti; Curator Smart City Expo World Congress-Events Abroad; Director CitiesToBe, Barcelona, Spain

Beatriz Gil Gómez de Liaño

Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Ian Goldin

Founding Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Pedro González Torroba

Advisor to the Office of the Mayor of Madrid; Associate Proffesor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Carmen Hidalgo Giralt

Co-Director, NFI Programme on Sustainable Cities; Associate Professor of Human Geography, School of Philosophy and Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Morris [Marty] Hylton III

President, Architecture Sarasota, Sarasota, FL, United States

Cristina Iglesias

Installation Artist and Sculptor, Cristina Iglesias Studio, Madrid, Spain

Andrés Jaque

Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, NY, United States; Founder, Office for Political Innovation, New York, NY, United States and Madrid, Spain

Francis Diebedo Kéré

Founder, Kéré Architecture and Kéré Foundation, Berlin, Germany

Claudia van der Laag Yamu

Professor of Urban Analytics, Department of Built Environment, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

Anne Lacaton

Co-founder and Co-director, Lacaton et Vassal Architectes, Paris, France

Kent Larson

Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute, Madrid, Spain; Director, City Science Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States

David Andrés León

Director, Master in Advanced Computation for Architecture and Design (MaCAD), Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain

Mattia Federico Leone

Associate Professor, Università di Napoli Federico II (UNINA), Naples, Italy; Co-Director, Urban Climate Change Research Network European Hub

Susan Liautaud

Chair of Council, Board of Trustees, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom; Founder and Managing Director, Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, London, United Kingdom

Luis Lloredo

Professor of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy, Universidad Carlos III; Ramón y Cajal Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Diego López Urruchi

Associate Director, Architecture and Technology Unit, Norman Foster Foundation (NFF), Madrid, Spain

Júlia López Ventura

Regional Director, C40 Europe, Madrid, Spain

Niklas Maak

Arts Editor Frankfurter Allgemeine, Frankfurt, Germany

Gosia (Małgorzata) Marczewska

Co-founder of PLAN ZERO, Warsaw, Poland

Irene Martín Luque

Head of Research, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

Lorena Martínez González

Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Gregorio Maya

City Science Coordinator, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

José María Michavila

Former Minister of Justice of Spain, Madrid, Spain

Emanuele Naboni

Visiting Researcher and Associate Professor of Sustainable and Climatic Design, Institute of Architecture and Technology, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark; Distinguished Professor, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Jonathan Natanian

Founder, studioADAPT; Assistant Professor, Head of EDPL Lab Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Carmen Navarro Gómez

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Dava J. Newman

Director, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States

Henk Ovink

Executive Director and Founding Commissioner, Global Commission on the Economics of Water, OECD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

David Pascual-Ezama

Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Gil Penalosa

Founder & Chair, 880 Cities; Founder, Cities for Everyone, Toronto, ON, Canada

Carmen Pérez Esparrells

Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Public Finance, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Antoine Picon

G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Director of Doctoral Programmes, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Edgar Pieterse

Founding Director, African Centre for Cities; Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Olivia Poston

Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

Carlo Ratti

Director, Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States; Founding Partner, CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Turin, Italy; Curator, 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

Hermógenes del Real Álvarez

Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Glyn Richards

Group Sustainability Director, Bupa, London, United Kingdom

Flora Roumpani

Research Associate, The Alan Turing Institute; Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

Susana Saiz

PhD in Architecture; Director, Ove Arup & Partners, Madrid, Spain. WELL AP & Faculty, LEED AP, ILFI Accredited

Marco Sammicheli

Director, Museo del Design Italiano; Curator, Design, Fashion & Crafts, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy

Juan Ignacio Sánchez Gutiérrez

Associate Professor, Department of Economic Structure and Development Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Gareth Simons

Head of City Science, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); Senior Research Fellow in Building Stock and Energy Modelling (Energy Institute); Research Fellow in Evidence Based Urban Design and Planning (Space Syntax), Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

Francesco Sindico

Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow, Scotland - UK on secondment with the Scottish Government as Carbon Neutral Islands project lead

Tim Stonor

Architect and Urban Planner; Managing Director, Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom

Amin Taha

Director, Groupwork; Tutor, ADS5 Architecture MA, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

Sergio Tirado Herrero

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Elena Tudela Rivadeneyra

Co-Founder, Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana (ORU); Associate Professor, Urban Environmental Area, School of Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico

Maria Vassilakou

Founder and CEO, Vassilakou Urban Consulting GmbH; Former Vice Mayor, Vienna, Austria

Naiara Vegara Gorroño

Vice President, Metropoli Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Mark Antony Wigley

Professor of Architecture; Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Catherine De Wolf

Director, Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA); Professor of Circular Engineering for Architecture; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Liang Xu

Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI)

Carolina Yacamán Ochoa

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

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Joseph G. Allen

Associate Professor; Director, Healthy Buildings Program, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor

Research Scientist, City Science Group; Principal Investigator, Andorra Living Lab Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States

Pierandrea Angius

Studio Master, Architectural Association (AA), Design Research Lab (AADRL), London, United Kingdom; Senior Consultant, Ferrari S.p.A., Modena, Italy; Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, London Design Studio, Pennsylvania, PA, United States

Alejandro Aravena

Executive Director, ELEMENTAL; ELEMENTAL Copec Chair, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Kevin Austin

Deputy Executive Director, C40 Cities, London, United Kingdom

Shigeru Ban

Founder and Principal Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan

Diego Antonio Barrado Timón

Co-Director, NFI Programme on Sustainable Cities; Senior Lecturer of Human Geography, Department of Philosophy and Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Deborah Berke

Dean, Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution; Associate Faculty and Special Friend, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Frédérick Bordry

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Gauss Fusion; CERN Honorary Member - Special Advisor to the CERN DG; Former CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland

Ricky Burdett

Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

Caitlin Burton

Senior Vice President of Partnerships, Zipline International, Paris, France

Juan Carlos Calanchini González Cos

Academic Coordinator; Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

David Calas

Director, Studio Calas, Vienna, Austria

José Manuel Calvo

PhD Architect and Urban planner; Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, IE University, Madrid Spain

María del Carmen Calvo Poyato

President of the State Council, Madrid, Spain

Juan Ramón Campos Blázquez

Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM); Board Member, People4, Madrid, Spain

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain; Founder and Creative Director, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), New York, NY, United States

Claudia Chwalisz

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DemocracyNext, Marseille, France

Beatriz Colomina

Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies (PhD programme), School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Beatriz Corredor

Member of the Academic Council, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); Former Minister of Housing, Spain; President, Red Eléctrica, Madrid, Spain

Catherine Cummings

CSR and Public Affairs Director, Sanitas and Bupa, Madrid, Spain

Raül Daussà-Pastor

Consulting Director, Anteverti, Barcelona, Spain

Paloma Díaz Pena

Lead Architect, Norman Foster Institute (NFI-NFF), Madrid, Spain

Gemma Durán Romero

Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Eduardo Estrada Alonso

Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Óscar Fanjul

Founding Chairman and Former CEO, Ferrovial, Madrid, Spain

Norman Foster

Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); President, Norman Foster Foundation (NFF), Madrid, Spain

Sheila Foster

Professor, Climate School; Affiliated Faculty, Law School, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Beatrice Galilee

Founder and Executive Director, The World Around, New York, NY, United States

Beatriz Gandarillas Gutiérrez

Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Cristina Garrido

CEO, Anteverti; Curator Smart City Expo World Congress-Events Abroad; Director CitiesToBe, Barcelona, Spain

Beatriz Gil Gómez de Liaño

Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Ian Goldin

Founding Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Pedro González Torroba

Advisor to the Office of the Mayor of Madrid; Associate Proffesor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Carmen Hidalgo Giralt

Co-Director, NFI Programme on Sustainable Cities; Associate Professor of Human Geography, School of Philosophy and Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Morris [Marty] Hylton III

President, Architecture Sarasota, Sarasota, FL, United States

Cristina Iglesias

Installation Artist and Sculptor, Cristina Iglesias Studio, Madrid, Spain

Andrés Jaque

Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, NY, United States; Founder, Office for Political Innovation, New York, NY, United States and Madrid, Spain

Francis Diebedo Kéré

Founder, Kéré Architecture and Kéré Foundation, Berlin, Germany

Claudia van der Laag Yamu

Professor of Urban Analytics, Department of Built Environment, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

Anne Lacaton

Co-founder and Co-director, Lacaton et Vassal Architectes, Paris, France

Kent Larson

Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute, Madrid, Spain; Director, City Science Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States

David Andrés León

Director, Master in Advanced Computation for Architecture and Design (MaCAD), Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain

Mattia Federico Leone

Associate Professor, Università di Napoli Federico II (UNINA), Naples, Italy; Co-Director, Urban Climate Change Research Network European Hub

Susan Liautaud

Chair of Council, Board of Trustees, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom; Founder and Managing Director, Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, London, United Kingdom

Luis Lloredo

Professor of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy, Universidad Carlos III; Ramón y Cajal Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Diego López Urruchi

Associate Director, Architecture and Technology Unit, Norman Foster Foundation (NFF), Madrid, Spain

Júlia López Ventura

Regional Director, C40 Europe, Madrid, Spain

Niklas Maak

Arts Editor Frankfurter Allgemeine, Frankfurt, Germany

Gosia (Małgorzata) Marczewska

Co-founder of PLAN ZERO, Warsaw, Poland

Irene Martín Luque

Head of Research, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

Lorena Martínez González

Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Gregorio Maya

City Science Coordinator, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

José María Michavila

Former Minister of Justice of Spain, Madrid, Spain

Emanuele Naboni

Visiting Researcher and Associate Professor of Sustainable and Climatic Design, Institute of Architecture and Technology, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark; Distinguished Professor, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Jonathan Natanian

Founder, studioADAPT; Assistant Professor, Head of EDPL Lab Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Carmen Navarro Gómez

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Dava J. Newman

Director, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States

Henk Ovink

Executive Director and Founding Commissioner, Global Commission on the Economics of Water, OECD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

David Pascual-Ezama

Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Gil Penalosa

Founder & Chair, 880 Cities; Founder, Cities for Everyone, Toronto, ON, Canada

Carmen Pérez Esparrells

Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Public Finance, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Antoine Picon

G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Director of Doctoral Programmes, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Edgar Pieterse

Founding Director, African Centre for Cities; Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Olivia Poston

Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI), Madrid, Spain

Carlo Ratti

Director, Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States; Founding Partner, CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Turin, Italy; Curator, 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

Hermógenes del Real Álvarez

Professor, School of Economics and Business Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Glyn Richards

Group Sustainability Director, Bupa, London, United Kingdom

Flora Roumpani

Research Associate, The Alan Turing Institute; Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

Susana Saiz

PhD in Architecture; Director, Ove Arup & Partners, Madrid, Spain. WELL AP & Faculty, LEED AP, ILFI Accredited

Marco Sammicheli

Director, Museo del Design Italiano; Curator, Design, Fashion & Crafts, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy

Juan Ignacio Sánchez Gutiérrez

Associate Professor, Department of Economic Structure and Development Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Gareth Simons

Head of City Science, Norman Foster Institute (NFI); Senior Research Fellow in Building Stock and Energy Modelling (Energy Institute); Research Fellow in Evidence Based Urban Design and Planning (Space Syntax), Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

Francesco Sindico

Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow, Scotland - UK on secondment with the Scottish Government as Carbon Neutral Islands project lead

Tim Stonor

Architect and Urban Planner; Managing Director, Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom

Amin Taha

Director, Groupwork; Tutor, ADS5 Architecture MA, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

Sergio Tirado Herrero

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Elena Tudela Rivadeneyra

Co-Founder, Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana (ORU); Associate Professor, Urban Environmental Area, School of Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico

Maria Vassilakou

Founder and CEO, Vassilakou Urban Consulting GmbH; Former Vice Mayor, Vienna, Austria

Naiara Vegara Gorroño

Vice President, Metropoli Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Mark Antony Wigley

Professor of Architecture; Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Catherine De Wolf

Director, Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA); Professor of Circular Engineering for Architecture; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Liang Xu

Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI)

Carolina Yacamán Ochoa

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Mayor of Freetown, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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University of Portsmouth Imagining Futures Workshop
Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Belén Ruíz

Escuela Téncnica Superior de Arquietctura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Imagining Futures Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Peh Ker Neng

University of Portsmouth Imagining Futures Workshop
Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Juan Mateos

Escuela Téncnica Superior de Arquietctura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Imagining Futures Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Ana Gómez

Escuela Téncnica Superior de Arquietctura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Imagining Futures Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Gökhan Dede

Politecnico di Milano Imagining Futures Workshop
Milan, Italy

Oscar Cruz

Escuela Téncnica Superior de Arquietctura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Imagining Futures Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Alejandro Caraballo

Escuela Téncnica Superior de Arquietctura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Imagining Futures Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Maristella Buzzelli

Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Imagining Futures Workshop
Rome, Italy

Emmanuel Álvarez

Escuela Téncnica Superior de Arquietctura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Imagining Futures Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Arghavan Taheri

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Armaan Bobby Shah

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Zhuo Er Pei

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Smit Ramesh

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Andrew Economos

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Rachel N. Lefevre

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Hojae Lee

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Nathan A. García

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Page Thomas

School of Architecture, Yale Deploying the Archive Workshop
New Haven, CT, United States

Paolo Viretto

Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (UAH) Archives Think Tank
Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Carolina de la Riva

Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (UAH) Archives Think Tank
Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Pau González

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) Archives Think Tank
Madrid, Spain

Natividad Gámez

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) Archives Think Tank
Madrid, Spain

María Agujetas

Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (UAH) Archives Think Tank
Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Vasilija Abramovic

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Robotics Atelier
London, United Kingdom

Amna AlAseeri

Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, University College London (UCL) Energy Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Campbell Argenzio

School of Engineering, University of Tokyo Robotics Atelier
Tokyo, Japan

Javier Argota Sánchez Vaquerizo

Escula Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Digital X Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Sólrún Arnarsdóttir

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Reykjavík, Iceland

Heidi Au Yeung

University of Cambridge Sustainability Workshop
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nicolas Ayoub

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Angela Bai

University of Cambridge Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Clara Ballin

Confluence Institute for Creative Strategies and Innovation in Architecture Sustainability Workshop
Paris, France

Maxime Baudoncq

Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture Urban Mobility Workshop
Paris, France

Dominic Blindert

North Dakota State University (NDSU) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Fargo, United States

Serban Bodea

Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), University of Stuttgart Robotics Atelier
Stuttgart, Germany

Joseph Bou Saleh

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Sustainability Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Saad Boujane

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Sustainability Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Sofie Brøgger

University of St Andrews Sustainability Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Juan Carlos Calanchini González Cos

Academic Coordinator; Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities, NFI MSc in Sustainable Cities, King's College London
Mexico City, Mexico, Mexico

Miran Calmanovici

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Sustainability Workshop
Haifa, Israel

Rocío Calzado

Tokyo Institute of Technology Urban Mobility Workshop
Tokyo, Japan

Adrián Carrio

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Robotics Atelier
Madrid, Spain

Duncan Catterall

University of Westminster Urban Mobility Workshop
Westminster, United Kingdom

Chiara Centoducati

Politecnico di Milano Shelters Workshop
Milan, Italy

Yasmine Chacour

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Shelters Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Andrés Conejero

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Madrid, Spain

Keiron Curn de Nobriga

Cornell University Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Ithaca, NY, United States

Alexander Curth

University of California, Berkeley Robotics Atelier
Berkeley, United States

Ismaeel Davids

University of Cape Town (UCT) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Cape Town, South Africa

Cristina Davila

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Shelters Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Kelvin De Chavez

University of Philippines Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Manila, Phillipines

Dev Desai

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Mumbai, India

Nikhil Desai

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Toronto, Canada

Bernadette Diril

École de Direction Artistique Penninghen Master's Proogramme on Sustainable Cities
Paris, France

Nikita Dhavale

Savitribai Phule Pune University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Pune, India

Aarti Dhingra

University of Stuttgart Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Stuttgart, Germany

Helen Dugmore

Yale University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Cape Town, South Africa

Mihail Dyankov

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Sofia, Bulgaria

Enkhtushig Erdene

Mongolian University of Science and Technology Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Claudia Eugenin

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Santiago, Chile

Ophélie Férédie

Confluence Institute Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Paris, France

Antía Fernández

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquietctura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Urban Mobility Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Germán Eduardo Ferradas

National University of Córdoba Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Córdoba, Argentina

Nik Eftekhar Olivo

Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), ETH Zurich Robotics Atelier
Zurich, Switzerland

Christelle El Feghali

American University of Beirut (AUB) Robotics Atelier
Beirut, Lebanon

Telmo Escapil-Inchauspé

École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA) Versailles Sustainability Workshop
Versailles, France

Kiley Feickert

MIIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Carl Fletcher

University of Westminster Energy Workshop
Westminster, United Kingdom

Luan Fontes

University of Porto Energy Workshop
Porto, Portugal

Adam Friedrich

Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk Energy Workshop
Varsaw, Poland

Lobna Galal

Cairo University Urban Mobility Workshop
Cairo, Egypt

Tomás Andrés Gárate

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile On Cities Workshop
Santiago, Chile

Laia Gemma García

University of Ferrara Sustainability Workshop
Ferrara, Italy

Eva María Gaytán Lizárraga

Universidad de Monterrey Master's Prorgamme on Sustainable Cities
Mexico City, Mexico, Mexico

Rand Ghobril

Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts Urban Mobility Workshop
Beirut, Lebanon

Solanki Ghosh

Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay Digital X Workshop
Mumbai, India

Rolando Girodengo Lobo

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Sustainability Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Hareesh Godaba

National University of Singapore (NUS) Robotics Atelier
Singapore, Singapore

Diana Guo

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University Sustainability Workshop
New York, United States

Terezia Greskova

University of Innsbruck Sustainability Workshop
Innsbruck, Austria

Jeremy Halpern

University of California, Berkeley Urban Mobility Workshop
Berkley, CA, United States

Natasha Harkison

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Sustainability Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Halima Hassan

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Energy Workshop
Zurich, Switzerland

Sebastian Hitchcock

University of Cape Town (UCT) Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Cape Town, South Africa

Shannon Hui

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
New York, United States

Michelle Antonietta Isoldi Campinho

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Energy Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Leticia Izquierdo García

MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Prakhar Jain

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay Robotics Atelier
Mumbai, India

Pablo Jaramillo

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Shelters Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Liu Jinrui

Tongji University On Cities Workshop
Shanghai, China

Sai Joshi

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Energy Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Anastasiya Karapetava

Belarusian National Technical University Programme on Sustainable Cities
Minsk, Belarus

Ipshita Karmakar

MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Vasudha Karnani

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Energy Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Fabian Kastner

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Energy Workshop
Zurich, Switzerland

Steven Keating

MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Robotics Atelier
Cambridge, United States

Kritika Kharbanda

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Energy Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Paulina Kühn

Bergische Universität Wuppertal Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Wuppertal, Germany

Himanshu Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Sustainability Workshop
New Delhi, India

Maria Kuptsova

University of Innsbruck Sustainability Workshop
Innsbruck, Austria

Angel Langumas

Cornell University Shelters Workshop
Ithaca, United States

Stefan Le Roux

University of Cape Town (UCT) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Cape Town, South Africa

Immacolata Lamacchia

Politecnico di Torino Sustainability Workshop
Torino, Italy

Nabila Larasati Pranoto

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Zurich, Switzerland

Joshua Lee Charles Young

Harvard University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Cambridge, United States

Paula Lelis

Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidade de São Paulo Digital X Workshop
São Paulo, Brazil

Jiajie Li

Tongji University Energy Workshop
Beijing, China

Michael Lidwin

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Energy Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Daniel Liang Xu

Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities, NFI Digital X Workshop, NFF University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Charles Edgar Lincoln

Confluence Institute for Creative Strategies and Innovation in Architecture Sustainability Workshop
Paris, France

Mario Maged Karas

Ain Shams University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Cairo, Egypt

George Malliaropoulos

University of Westminster Sustainability Workshop
Westminster, United Kingdom

Gosia Marczewska

Cracow University of Technology Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Cracow, Poland

Mariana Marmelada

University of Lisbon Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Lisbon, Portugal

Elao Martin

Namibia University of Science and Technology Re-materializing Housing Workshop
Namibia, Namibia

Luz Martínez Ramírez

Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y Tecnología Robotics Atelier
Santiago, Chile

Dinorah Martínez Schulte

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Robotics Atelier
Mexico City, Mexico, Mexico

Brenda Mboya

Ashesi University Robotics Atelier
Berekuso, Ghana

Dana McKinney

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University On Cities Workshop
Boston, United States

Zuzanna Mielczarek

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) On Cities Workshop
Delft, Netherlands

Marcus Ming Frike

Technische Universität München (TUM) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Munich, Germany

Seyed Mobin Moussavi

University of Kassel Sustainability Workshop
Kassel, Germany

Oliver Moldow

University of Stuttgart Energy Workshop
Stuttgart, Germany

Dana Molzhigit

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Sustainability Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Alisha Morenike Fisher

Centre for Alternative Technology Sustainability Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Enyine Morgan-Asiedu

Laurentian University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Accra, Ghana

Phoebe Mueni Mwangangi

University of Nairobi Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Nairobi, Kenya

Dennis Mukuba

University of Cambridge Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Nairobi, Kenya

Mary Muturi

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Energy Workshop
Nairobi, Kenya

Fernando Nagore Carrasco

University of Groningen Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Madrid, Spain

Priscilla Namwanje

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) Sustainability Workshop
Delft, Netherlands

Jonathan Ng

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Robotics Atelier
Boston, United States

Nikola Nikolic

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Shelters Workshop
Zurich, Switzerland

Sophie Njeri Njenga

University of Nairobi Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Nairobi, Kenya

Fahmeeda Osman

University of Johannesburg Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Johannesburg, South Africa

Isaac Palmiere-Szabo

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Sustainability Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Maria Papadimitraki

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Stefana Parascho

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Robotics Atelier
Zurich, Switzerland

Rohan Patankar

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) On Cities Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Aidan Gaëtan Pelletey

University of California, Berkeley Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Berkeley, France/United States

Ricardo Perez

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Sustainability Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Amna Pervaiz

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Sara Pharon

International University for Science and Technology (IUST) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Damascus, Syria

Georine Pierre

MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Master's Programme On Sustainable Cities 2023 Sustainability Workshop
Cambridge, MA, United States

Olivia Poston

Lead Researcher, Norman Foster Institute (NFI) Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities, NFI Energy Workshop, NFF Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University
Cambridge, United States

Carmen Povedano

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Shelters Workshop
Madrid, Spain

Prabhanjan Prabhu

Ahmedabad University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Ahmedabad, India

Timothy Presbury

University of Cape Town (UCT) Sustainability Workshop
Cape Town, South Africa

Pongpol Punjawaytegul

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Shelters Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Ellen Marie Reinhard

MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sustainability Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Nadia Remmerswaal

Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft Digital X Workshop
Delft, Netherlands

Matheus Isaac Rezende da Rocha

Federal University of the State of Goiás Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Goiânia, Brazil

Andrés Rico Medina

MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sustainability Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Callum Richardson

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Energy Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Mateo Rossi Rolando

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Energy Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Ana Luisa Rumbos

Savannah College of Art and Design Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Miami, Spain/United States

Romain Russe

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Shelters Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Davide Schaumann

Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Digital X Workshop
Haifa, Israel

Dafne Saint-Hilarie

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Sustainability Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Uurtsaikh Sangi

Syracuse University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Samuel Shamo Abbey

Ashesi University Robotics Atelier
Berekuso, Ghana

Parshav Sheth

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Kushagra Sinha

School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi Urban Mobility Workshop
New Delhi, India

Eleni Skevaki

School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Robotics Atelier
Athens, Greece

Andrew Sonta

Stanford University Digital X Workshop
Stanford, United States

Yasaman Tahouni

Institute for Computational Design (ICD), University of Stuttgart Robotics Atelier
Stuttgart, Germany

Ivan Tamayo Ramos

Architectural Institute in Prague Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Mexico City, Mexico, Mexico

Sally Tareq Aljaderi

American University in Dubai On Cities Workshop
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ivo Tedbury

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Digital X Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Chrysanthi Thomaidi

Pratt Institute Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Athens, Greece

Tim Tompson

City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales Digital X Workshop
Sydney, Australia

Ander Ushijima de la Fuente

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya On Cities Workshop
Barcelona, Spain

Ricardo Valbuena

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Robotics Atelier
Barcelona, Spain

Edgar Vladimirenko

Università Iuav di Venezia Sustainability Workshop
Venecia, Italy

Marina Villuendas Jiménez

University of Geneva Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Madrid, Spain

Ciying Wang

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Shelters Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Benjamin Weber

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Energy Workshop
Karlsuhe, Germany

Ramon Weber

MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Robotics Atelier
Cambridge, United States

Benjamin Wells

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts On Cities Workshop
Copenhagen, Denmark

Paweł Wojdylak

Cracow University of Technology Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Cracow, Poland

Ho Yan Yi

National University of Singapore Digital X Workshop
Singapore, Singapore

Yuling Yang

University of Hong Kong Urban Mobility Workshop
Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Azhi Yassin Rasul

Istanbul Kultur University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Kurdistan Region/Iraq

Qian Yiyuan

Tsinghua University On Cities Workshop
Beijing, China

Michael Zajakowski Uhll

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop
Cambridge, United States

Marco Zaki

Mis International University Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities
Obour, Egypt

Tereza Zivotska

Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) Energy Workshop
London, United Kingdom

Mohamad Ziwar Al Nouri

University of Applied Arts Vienna Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities 2024 Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities Sustainability Workshop
Innsbruck, Austria

Eduardo Zizumbo

Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University Urban Mobility Workshop
Cambridge, MA, United States
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This programme is established in partnership with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).

Signed by the Co-Directors of the Programme on Sustainable Cities Norman Foster, President of the Norman Foster Foundation and Advocate of the United Nations Forum of Mayors, and Kent Larson, Director of the City Science Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. Additionally, it is signed by the NFI Provost, Prof. Edgar Pieterse, Founding Director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa, and the Provost of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).

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