The lecture will present the work developed as an architect and academic (TU Delft) over the past 12 years. It will reflect on 12 years of research and teaching activities on the future of cities, conceiving and producing cultural dissemination events, design projects, digital tools, and accompanying firms strategic positioning and culture of change. Through a series of projects, the lecture will examine how global agendas, scenario-based research, computational technologies, and curatorial practices, can engage diverse audiences, bridge academia and the publics, and inspire design action.

Adrien Ravon is an architect and academic, engaging in research, teaching, and design.
He holds a Master in Architecture from ENSA-Paris-Malaquais, specializing in the future of cities, architecture, and territories. 
At TU Delft, he is focusing on making design knowledge accessible to broader audiences, promoting research, and disseminating ideas about the future of the built environ¬ment through research, publications, exhibitions.
For the past 12 years, he has worked as teacher, researcher, and project leader for the Why Factory - a think tank on the future of cities, based at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, and led by Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV. 
He has developed a series of research, teaching, curatorial and design projects, covering themes such as ecology, fashion, health, education, sociology, art, sciences, and technologies. 
These works led to exhibition projects, produced in partnership with numerous institutions (including the Mori Museum in Tokyo, Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, COAM in Madrid, PAN in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Manifesta 13 in Marseille, Design Indaba in Cape Town), as well as a series of publications.
He has led urban and territorial studies in Marseille for Manifesta 13, in Amsterdam in collaboration with the AMS Institute, in the Czech Republic in partnership with several universities, as well as a comparative study on the 2030 Agenda as a tool for urban planning in rapidly expanding cities. In this context, he has designed and facilitated numerous participatory workshops engaging diverse audiences. 
He co-authored The Why Factory’s Future Cities Series publications (nai010 publishers) ‘Barba, Life in a fully adaptable environment’ (2015), ‘Copy Paste, the badass copy guide’ (2017), ‘PoroCity, opening up solidity’ (2018), ‘(w)Ego, dream Home in density’ (2020), and The Green Dip, covering the city with a forest’ (2023), and ‘Le Grand Puzzle, Manifesta 13 Marseille’ at Hatje Cantz publishers (2020)
He has held teaching positions and collaborated with various international universities (Columbia University New York, ETH Zurich, IIT Chicago, IAAC Barcelona, ENSAS Strasbourg, ENSAPLV Paris, Chiba University Tokyo, CTU Prague, KRVIA Mumbai).
Over the course of his career, in practice and in academia, he has developed an expertise in the development of digital tools, data driven design, and digital transitions. As initiator of the MVRDV Next laboratory, he was responsible for supporting the development of the agency’s computational culture and managing internal knowledge through the design of digital tools. 
He has worked as an architect and project leader for leading architecture firms in Argentina, France, and the Netherlands, is currently working as a consultant in the field of computation and new technologies applied to the future of cities, architecture and territories.

Conférence « Future cities: tools, research and public engagement » par Adrien Ravon
Jeudi 5 décembre 2024 à 18h30
ENSAS, La Fabrique, Amphithéâtre Pierre Vercey
Entrée libre