Programme

First on Mayor Bloomberg’s team, then with Bloomberg Associates, Amanda Burden is a key figure in 20 years of transformation in New York, from the High Line to the East River. An unmissable talk.

Markus ElKatsha guides us through the interconnected city, where data plays an ever-increasing social and political role. After years of smart cities, how do we turn data analysis into real benefits for everyone?

Fantastic projects, radical visions, rarities. Bombay Imagined pulls from the archives the projects that were never realised for what is now the world’s densest megalopolis. An imaginary atlas, with the fascination that only old utopias can have, to demonstrate all the power of city imaging.

Look around, it’s all created by men. Urban ethnographer, ‘professional people-watcher’, academic, Johnston-Zimmerman is committed to the power of women in city-making in the US and Europe – so much so that she made the BBC’s 100 Women List.

Alizé Carrère is the first Visiting Urban Explorer of 2022. Filmmaker, already travelling for National Geographic, she will inaugurate our urban exploration format. What are your ideas for the city?

In collaboration with OGR Tech, a panel to understand what it means to do urban innovation, with a look at the galaxy of start-ups made in Turin. 

In 2013, a new brewery was born in the heart of Brussels thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. Today, the Brussels Beer Project participates in the transformation of the Belgian capital.

Exploring the city is Khensani de Klerk, a South African designer. With her group on intersectionality and architecture, she strives for safer and more inclusive cities. A contemporary perspective.

More certified wood in the city. More power to the communities that care for the forests. The Cities4Forests model combines two opposite ecosystems to support both.
So tropical iroko arrives on your park benches. A platform that already unites more than 70 cities, including Turin.

Performative landscapes. Metropolitan hybrids. Transformative density. For the Belgian group, the renewal of urban design invests everything, starting with language. An emerging name to keep in mind.

A new urban guru at the festival, to put an end to the issue with a P: city and pandemic. From the days of Athens to today, viruses demand strong reactions. Once again, for the author of Triumph of the City, the answer can only come from urban change.

The South Bronx urban strategist’s latest book is a hymn to participation. The invitation is clear: to live a better neighbourhood, you don’t need to move – you need to be proactive. The very personal account of a key figure in the USA urban scene.

Da Rotterdam alla scoperta di Torino. Le idee di uno dei fondatori di Humankind, squadra eclettica di studi urbani, tra teorici della transizione, imprenditori sociali, creativi e psicoanalisti.

Scarmagno, Electric Mobility Capital. Italvolt’s plan is to build the largest car battery factory here by 2024. Word to the company investing 30 minutes from Turin.

Autos Verboten. Thousands of signatures to ban cars from the city and an official referendum on the cards ー a revolution that would reach far further than Berlin. It is the Berlin Autofrei campaign, told by one of its prime activists.

Open, democratic, inclusive but above all green spaces. Urban parks -and the pandemic has made this clear- are today a great resource for greater liveability in the city. But how exactly does an urban park work?

For the first time, Utopian Hours invites a guest city on the programme to broaden the debate on city making in Italy.

Two decades of creativity and activism in the “city of the permanent temporary.” Zones Urbaines Sensibles chronicles a lifetime of placemaking. The emblem of their philosophy is the Luchtsingel, the yellow bridge symbolizing a Rotterdam in constant redefinition. They arrive in Turin with a new project.

Visionary architect-director, for the BBC he is ‘the man who is designing our future’. His think tank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today anticipates the impact of technology. His films bring the great socio-environmental issues to life. Example: one city for the whole of humanity? He created it.

Mulyani is the pioneer of marschitecture. In the Californian desert, her Mars City Design creates city prototypes for extreme environments, with a view to Silicon Valley’s space ventures. The mission is the first self-sufficient centre on Mars. Homes from another world.

Underwater sculptures to save Miami’s coastline. Ximena Caminos’ latest visionary venture shows how art can lead us towards climate resilience.