List of the selected scholars for 2019 ‘On Cities’ Workshop announced
The list of the ten selected scholars that will participate in the 2019 ‘On Cities’ Workshop at the Norman Foster Foundation is now public. The workshop will take place on 27 – 31 May 2019 with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies and will be led by Luis Bettencourt, Pritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for […]
RIBA opens 2019 Norman Foster Foundation Travelling Scholarship
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today opened applications for the 2019 Norman Foster Foundation Travelling Scholarship. This fellowship encourages architecture students and scholars to travel anywhere in the world to pursue research on the subject of the future survival of cities and communities. Applications are welcomed from students enrolled in schools of […]
The Board of Trustees appoints a new Advisory Board member
This 21st of February, the board of Trustees at the Norman Foster Foundation appointed a new Advisory Board member, Mr. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, UK. Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Senior Artistic Advisor of The Shed in […]
Digital X – Public Debates
Professor Negroponte points out: ‘all things digital are simultaneously local and global, large and small, inside and outside of any given boundary. The digital world is not crisp. It is porous and diffuse. It brings together previously separate worlds, like those of discovery, invention and expression. It does that because it has become the DNA […]
OPEN CALL: On Cities Workshop
The Norman Foster Foundation is selecting ten students to be awarded a scholarship for the upcoming On Cities workshop to be held at the Norman Foster Foundation headquarters in Madrid, Spain, 27 – 31 May 2019. The On Cities workshop, mentored by Luis Bettencourt, Pritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago, […]
The Norman Foster Foundation receives the 2018 Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts
The Norman Foster Foundation receives the 2018 Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts proposed by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and granted by the Council of Ministers. The Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts is an award granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports to individuals and institutions from the world […]
Norman Foster Foundation to design master plan for slums in Odisha
The Norman Foster Foundation is collaborating with Government of Odisha, Housing and Urban Development Department and Tata Trusts to design and develop master plans for slums under Odisha LiveableHabitat Mission. The Architecture, Design and Technology Units of the Norman Foster Foundation met with India’s Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik, who expressed his pleasure for the timely support by Norman Foster Foundation and […]
Robotics Atelier – Public Debates
The Robotics Public Debate explored how society is on the edge of a transformation through Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. They have the potential to change every aspect of our lives in far-reaching ways. For instance, the world of construction would be revolutionised by these developments in what could prove to be a second digital era. […]
OPEN CALL: Digital X Workshop
The Norman Foster Foundation is awarding ten scholarships to participate in the upcoming Digital X workshop to be held at the Norman Foster Foundation headquarters in Madrid, Spain, 18–22 February 2019. The Digital X workshop, mentored by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and former director of MIT Media Lab, will comprise a team of granted scholars drawn from the diverse […]
Universidad CEU San Pablo– Global Conference on Environmental Taxation
The GCET has been held every year since 2000 as an international meeting of specialists, and a forum for the exchange of findings on environmental taxation and other market-based instruments designed to foster sustainability. Research presented at the previous eighteen conferences has helped provide a much stronger theoretical and empirical underpinning of the legal, economic […]