Venue: Chelsea Old Town Hall.

9:00 – 9:30 Coffee

9:30 – 11:00 Panel Discussion – URBANISM: Place-making & Place-mending (LIVESTREAMED)

Panellists will discuss their work to design new places and to intervene sensitively in existing places. Case studies will include ‘brownfield’ (previously developed, now vacant) sites, historic centres, and areas for post-disaster reconstruction. Details and speakers HERE.

Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Keynote address and Q&A: Salma Samar Damluji. Details HERE. (LIVESTREAMED)

12:30 – 13:30 Networking lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Breakout sessions 1, 2 & 3**

Available via livestream: Towards an Architecture… School! – Nadia Naty Everard

14:30 – 15:15 Breakout sessions 4, 5 & 6**

Available via livestream: The Medina of Sousse: Islamic Urban Design, Sustainability, and Cosmology – Soraya Hosni

Coffee break

16:00 – 16:45 Breakout sessions 7, 8 & 9**

Available via livestream: Mapping What We Love: How Local People Read and Shape Place – Create Streets, Ed Leahy, Thomas Noble

16:45 – 17:30 Closing remarks

18:00 – 20:30 Documentary Screening – Léon Krier and Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil

Special evening programme at Everyman Cinema (7 minutes’ walk from Chelsea Old Town Hall). The evening begins with arrival and refreshments from 18:00 to 18:30, followed by screenings of Caravane Earth documentaries on Léon Krier and Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, each with a Q&A.

** About the Breakout sessions: INTBAU 25: Progress in Tradition received nearly 40 proposals for breakout sessions from across the world, spanning Latin America to South Asia. The selected sessions will explore Progress in Tradition through hands-on workshops, community-led projects, and forward-thinking initiatives in building, architecture, and urbanism. Places in breakout sessions will be assigned based on preferences indicated via a delegate form.

Breakout sessions:

– ‘Mapping what we love: how local people read and shape place’ by Create Streets. Details HERE.

– ‘Wellness by design: transforming health outcomes through architecture and urban space’ by J. Timothy McCarthy. Details HERE.

– ‘Stone Free Movement: Stone Free Movement: reviving earth architecture as global solution in the age of climate crisis’ by Hasan Naseef. Details HERE.

– ‘Genius Loci and Corbusier’s pack donkey. The unique character of place as a cornerstone of traditional building’ by Robert Tomlinson. Details HERE.

– ‘Towards an architecture… school!’ by Nadia Naty Everard. Details HERE.

– ‘Railway buildings out of service in Portugal: rehabilitation and new uses’ by Antonio Borges. Details HERE.

– ‘International call: the formation of an INTBAU Technical Committee’ by Georgia Cristea. Details HERE.

– ‘The Medina of Sousse: Islamic urban design, sustainability and cosmology’ by Soraya Hosni. Details HERE.

– ‘Cuauhnáhuac: City of Eternal Spring — A proposal to combat urban decay and insecurity’ by Nadia Samir. Details HERE.