FORUM SCHEDULE QATAR URBAN FORUM DAY 1 DAY 2. 6 th & 7 th March, 2012 CULTURE, HERITAGE AND IDENTITY SUSTAINABILITY, ENERGY AND GREEN DEVELOPMENT

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1 Qatar Pavilion at MIPIM 6th & 7th March, 2012

2 QATAR URBAN FORUM 6 th & 7 th March, 2012 Hosted by the Qatar Pavilion, Qatar Urban Forum is a groundbreaking new platform created to discuss issues concerning sustainability, culture and urban development. This platform welcomes a diversity of policy-makers, industry experts and other globally renowned personalities in the field of real estate and urban development and its related social, economic and cultural issues. The forum addresses two main themes Sustainability, Energy and Green Developments (6th March) and Heritage; Culture and Identity (7th March) through four highly relevant topics that focus the discussion and ensure substantive and illuminating outcomes. Over two days, the forum will stimulate dialogue on how to realise progressive urban development that also sustains thriving, successful communities. Keynote speeches by two of the world s most respected practitioners in the field Lord Richard Rogers and Angela Brady provide a thought-provoking introduction, and point of departure, for each day s theme. The first theme Sustainability, Energy and Green Developments, aims to examine and discuss solution-oriented methods for implementing sustainable development and urbanism, and to stimulate more ideas and useful insights regarding architecture and urban development within the context of sustainability. The second theme Heritage; Culture and Identity will focus on the phenomena of increasing contradictions between the «modernisation» of regions on the one hand and the cultural identity of these places. The sessions intend to use this proposition as a point of departure to explore and examine the various discourses regarding regionalism, globalization and their impact on the built environment. The panelist and moderators will bring a wealth of experience and insights from their work around the world, ensuring a lively debate in an effort to further the cause of progressive, sustainable urban development. Session 1 11:00-11:40 Keynote: Lord Richard Rogers 11:40-11:50 Q&A 11:50-12:00 Coffee Break 12:00-13:00 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: DEFINITION OF THE TERM AND THE WAY FORWARD Massimiliano Fuksas Emilio Ambasz Issa Al Mohannadi Patrick Bellew Mike Jenks 13:00-13:30 Panel Discussion and Q&A Session 2 14:00-15:00 GREENING THE CITY: INTEGRATION OF GREEN TECHNOLOGY IN URBAN DEVELOPMENTS Ken Yeang Bill Dunster Yousef Al Horr George Kunhirio Jorge Vanegas FORUM SCHEDULE DAY 1 DAY 2 Tuesday 6th March 2012 SUSTAINABILITY, ENERGY AND GREEN DEVELOPMENT 11:00-11:40 Keynote: Angela Brady 11:40-11:50 Q&A 11:50-12:00 Coffee Break Wednesday 7th March 2012 CULTURE, HERITAGE AND IDENTITY Session 3 12:00-13:00 BRINGING IDENTITY BACK: IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALISM ON THE ART OF PLACE MAKING IN CITIES Will Alsop Beatrice Galilee Mike Jenks Mashary Al-Naim Nezar Al Sayyad 13:00-13:30 Panel Discussion and Q&A Session 4 14:00-15:00 A CITY I LOVE: OWNERSHIP, CHARACTER AND THE EVOLUTION OF CITIES Mohammed Ali Abdulla Attilio Petruccioli John Letherland Tim Makower Beatrice Galilee 15:00-15:30 Panellist Discussion and Q&A 15:00-15:30 Panellist Discussion and Q&A

3 SPEAKERS DAY 1 LORD RICHARD ROGERS Richard Rogers is the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and became a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in He was knighted in 1991 and subsequently made a life peer in In1998, Richard was appointed to chair the UK Government s Urban Task Force on the state of our cities. He was Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayor of London and advised on the Mayor of Barcelona s Urban Strategies Council. Richard Rogers practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is best known for such pioneering buildings as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the headquarters for Lloyd s of London and Terminal 4, Barajas Airport Madrid. MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS Native of Lithuania, Massimiliano Fuksas was born in 1944 in Rome where he graduated in 1969 in Architecture at La Sapienza University. In 1967 he sets up his own studio in Rome, followed by a second one in Paris in Since 2008 he has an office in Shenzhen, China. From 1998 to 2000 he is Director of the VII International Architecture Exhibition in Venice : Less Aesthetics, More Ethics. In 2010 he was decorated with the Légion d Honneur by the French President Nicholas Sarkozy. He has been Visiting Professor at several universities, such as: École Spéciale d Architecture in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna, the Staadtliche Akademia des Bildenden Kunste in Stoccarda, and Columbia University in New York. Since many years he has been devoting special attention to urban problems in large metropolitan areas. EMILIO AMBASZ Born in 1943 in Argentina, studied at Princeton University. He completed the undergraduate program in one year and earned, the next year, a Master s Degree in Architecture from the same institution where he taught as Philip Freneau Professor of Architecture. He served as Curator of Design at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York ( ), He is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Acknowledged as the precursor of Green Architecture he is the recipient of numerous architectural and design awards as well as one-man shows at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (twice), La Triennale di Milano (twice), The Arts Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofia-Madrid. ISSA M. AL MOHANNADI Engineer Issa M. Al Mohannadi is Chief Executive Officer of Msheireb Properties, a subsidiary of Qatar Foundation. He is the founder and chairperson of the Qatar Green Building Council, which actively promotes sustainability in the local construction industry and member of the World Green Building Council. Eng. Al Mohannadi earned his Bachelor s degree in natural gas engineering from Texas A&M University. Prior to entering the real estate industry, Eng Al Mohannadi was an influential figure at Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company, where he drove key initiatives such as the Ras Laffan Helium Project, the LNG Venture Terminal Business Group, and the RasGas Capital Projects Department. Eng Al Mohannadi has received numerous plaudits for his contribution to Qatar s rapidly growing business community, including the title of Property Development CEO of the Year at the 7th Middle East CEO of the Year Awards, organised by the Middle East Institute of Excellence in PATRICK BELLEW Founding Director of International Environmental Design Practice Atelier Ten, Patrick is a chartered engineer with over 30 years experience of designing high-performance buildings and systems around the world. Founded in 1990, Atelier Ten has offices in London, Glasgow, New York, New Haven and San Francisco. Teaching at Yale University School of Architecture since 2000, Patrick most recently led an Advanced Design Studio as Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor. One of the founders of the UK-GBC, he now serves on the Board of Trustees. Elected an Honorary Fellow of RIBA in 2001, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004, Patrick received the Happold Medal in 2008 and was elected a Royal Designer for Industry in MIKE JENKS Mike Jenks is Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University, the Founder Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Founder of City Form: the Sustainable Urban form Consortium. His expertise embraces the compact city and sustainable urbanism, and the relationships between environmental, social and economic sustainability in an urban context. His books include: The Compact City: A sustainable urban Form? (1996); Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (2000); Compact Cities: sustainable urban forms for developing countries (2000); Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities (2005); World Cities and Urban Form (2008), and; Dimensions of the Sustainable City (2010). KEN YEANG Ken Yeang [D.M.P.N., PhD. (Cantab), AA Dip., D.Lit. (Hon.), APAM, FSIA, RIBA, ARAIA, Hon. FAIA, Hon. FRIAS] is the Chairman and Design Director of Llewelyn Davies Yeang (UK), and principal of its sister company Hamzah & Yeang (Malaysia). He studied architecture at the AA (Architectural Association) School (London), and received his doctorate from Wolfson College, Cambridge University. He is best known for his signature deep green architecture and masterplans and has completed over 200 built projects. He is regarded as the inventor of the bioclimatic skyscraper. His research and design work are published in several authoritative books the latest is Ecoarchitecture The Work of Ken Yeang (publ. John Wiley & Sons, 2011). He is a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Malaysian Institute of Architects (2011). He is also the Distinguished Plym Professor at University of Illinois, and has served on the RIBA Council. BILL DUNSTER Prior to forming ZEDfactory, Bill was an associate architect for Michael Hopkins and Partners working on the award winning Nottingham University Campus. He also developed the environmental strategy and façade design for Portcullis House, this followed 4 years of research collaborating with the leading environmental consultants in Europe, including Arups, CSTB Nantes, Christian Bartenbach and Conphoebus. Bill has also taught at the Architectural Association and Kingston University and regularly speaks at a range of seminars and conferences all over the world. In 1995 Bill built his own house, Hope House which is a prototype low energy live/work unit in which he and his family now live. YOUSEF AL HORR Dr. Yousef Mohammed Al-Horr is the founder and chairman of Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD), one of Qatar s leading national institutes. Dr. Al-Horr has held a variety of strategic positions in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining GORD, and BARWA Real Estate Co., Dr. Al-Horr assumed several tasks and responsibilities at Qatar University, from being a professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Head of the Materials Engineering Unit, to acting as the university s Assistant Vice President for Research. Over the past five years, GORD has successfully directed the development of the Qatar Sustainability Assessment System (QSAS), a first-of-its-kind performance-based sustainability rating system in the Middle East region based on 40 regional and international building codes and frameworks. QSAS that has become one of the most comprehensive international systems, documented in more than 30 sections/volumes. GEORGE KUNIHIRO Professor George Kunihiro, FAIA, is a noted educator/architect/ researcher. He is Professor of Architecture at the Kokushikan University in Tokyo, Japan. Professor Kunihiro received his Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and his undergraduate degree from the University of California/Berkeley. As the President of the ARCASIA (Architects Regional Council Asia) and a Vice Chairman of maan (modern Asian Architecture Network), an organization working to conserve and revitalize the 20 th Century Asian heritage, Professor Kunihiro has been active in promoting the profession and the academic research in Asia. He has conducted international workshops on industrial heritage in China, Indonesia and Turkey and lectured globally on various topic related to the Asian architecture. JORGE VANEGAS Prof Jorge Vanegas, Dean, College of Architecture at Texas A&M University, leads the Architecture, Construction Science, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, and Visualization departments; the Health Systems & Design, Heritage Conservation, Housing & Urban Development, Leadership & Management in Design & Construction, and Hazard Reduction & Recovery centers; and the Institute for Applied Creativity. His scholarly and professional activities focus on: creativity, innovation, design, and entrepreneurship; built environment sustainability urban, infrastructure, facilities, and housing; and advanced integrated capital projects delivery and management. He is a technical advisor and regular contributor to various national and international academic institutions and organizations. Art Reina Sofia-Madrid; etc.

4 SPEAKERS DAY 2 ANGELA BRADY President of Royal Institute of British Architects (Sept ) As President of RIBA Angela champions quality sustainable design and the value that quality architecture brings to our daily lives. She is passionate about bringing architecture to the public, so that we all can all engage with our built environment. She promotes the best of British Architecture and sustainable design on a world stage and speaks at conferences worldwide. One of her presidential priorities is to create new international links that will benefit all partners in education and professional working together across the globe. Angela is a director of Brady Mallalieu Architects an award winning private practice based in London since 1987 who specialise in contemporary sustainable design. Angela is currently a Government Equality Ambassador, a Board and Council member of RIBA a STEMnet Ambassador, and a CABE Enabler. A past member of;- CABE/ English Heritage Urban panel; Design Champion of London Development Agency Board; Vice chair of Civic Trust Awards, RIAI Council member, Trustee Director Building Exploratory Hackney and Leader of Work project (in the Near East North Africa) with the British Council. Past chair of Women in Architecture, a founding member of RIBA Architects for Change and curator of DiverseCity global exhibition. WILL ALSOP Will Alsop is one of the UK s most prominent architects, guided by the principle that architecture is both a vehicle and symbol of social change and renewal. This philosophy extends from the design of individual buildings to embracing broader principles of urbanism and city development. By abandoning the hegemony of an acceptable style, he has rendered the whole process of architecture one of increasing fluidity and transparency; as such he continues to uncover new and refreshing positions for architecture. Will Alsop follows a parallel path as an artist; his stance is that art and architecture are inseparable disciplines. He was a tutor of sculpture at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London and continues to hold many academic posts around the world. His paintings and sketches have been exhibited alongside his architectural projects in dedicated exhibitions at Sir John Soane s Museum, the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale and many others. MASHARY AL NAIM Mashary Al-Naim is professor of architectural criticism at the faculty of architecture at Al Dammam University, Saudi Arabia, and was a former chair of the Architecture Department at King Faisal University (KFU) and former dean of the advancement in (PMU). Dr. Al Naim has a PhD in Architecture from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He served on numerous architectural and design juries (such as Arab city award, Sultan Qaboos Award and King Abdullah II of Jordan Award) and has consulted on countless design projects throughout the world, but especially in the Middle East and Gulf Region. NEZAR AL SAYYAD Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design, and Urban History; Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and President, International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. As a scholar, AlSayyad has authored and edited several books on colonialism, identity, Islamic architecture, tourism, tradition, urbanism, urban design, urban history, urban informality, and virtuality. He is an active member of the Graduate Group in Global Metropolitan Studies and the Graduate Group for the Design of Urban Places. Outside the college, AlSayyad chairs the Graduate Program in International and Areas Studies (MA-IAS) and the Undergraduate Major in Middle Eastern Studies. In 2008, AlSayyad was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest honor the University of California bestows on its faculty. MOHAMMED ALI ABDULLA Mohammed Ali Abdulla is an expert in Arabian Gulf art and architecture and has extensive experience in managing restoration projects. Attaining his degree from the University of Toledo, Mohammed Ali Abdulla, quickly became the Head of Crafts section in the Gulf States Folklore Center. After spending 9 years as head of the Graphic Design Section in Qatar Television, Mohammed Ali Abdulla was appointed as Senior Designer and Project Manager of the Souq Wakif rebuilding and restoration project. Following the success of Souq Wakif, Mohammed Ali Abdulla was further tasked with rebuilding and restoring the old coastal town of Wakrah and in the north, the village of Al Wosail. Currently Mohammed Ali Abdulla is carrying out extensive research in plaster ornamentation in Gulf States. Focusing on Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi and Qatar, Mohammed Ali Abdulla attempts to find linkages across these countries in style of ornamentation and uncover the role that art played in construction of buildings. ATTILIO PETRUCCIOLI Professor of Landscape Architecture and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Aga Khan Professor of Design for Islamic Societies at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. As a result of his longstanding and passionate interest in both architectural design and the history of Islamic architecture, he has written and edited more than twenty five books on these topics. JOHN LETHERLAND John Letherland is a Partner at Farrells, with particular responsibility for urban design projects. John studied architecture in Manchester and joined the practice in 1980, where he maintains his education in urban design really began. Focus on context and on the spaces between buildings, rather than on buildings as objects, has always been the foundation stone of his work. John believes that good urban design can only be achieved through the creation of real places and spaces, and experience on a variety of master planning projects undertaken in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Wujin, Auckland, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, Coventry, Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow amongst others, has combined successfully in a variety of high profile mixed-use, residential, cultural and arts-related projects. John now leads Farrells Urban Design Group, and recent work includes the development of design frameworks for the Marylebone-Euston Road, Euston Circus, St Giles Circus Vauxhall Cross, The Royal Docks and the Isle of Dogs, and master plans for Earls Court, Nine Elms, White City, Mount Pleasant, Bishopsgate Goods Yard, the Greenwich Peninsula and Folkestone Seafront, along with new eco-based urban extensions to Bicester and Wallingford. The recent urban design work of the practice was showcased in the Architectural Review and in Shaping London published in TIM MAKOWER Tim Makower MA Cambridge University, RIBA, is a partner at Allies and Morrison, one of the UK s foremost practices in Architecture and Urban Design. He has had extensive experience in the UK and the GCC, including major projects both of urban design and architecture. He is the architect of the Diwan Amiri Quarter, including the Qatar National Archives and the National Eid Ground as well as numerous residential projects in Doha. BEATRICE GALILEE Chief Curator of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and an independent curator and writer and lecturer in London. Beatrice specialises in the dissemination of architecture through media, curatorial practice, research, editing and teaching. She is the co-founder and director of The Gopher Hole, an exhibition and event space in London, architectural consultant and writer at DomusWeb, and associate lecturer at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. She was a senior curator at the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale in Korea, which was directed by Ai Wei Wei and Seung H-Sang. She is former architecture editor at Icon and is a freelance contributor to a number of international publications on architecture and design including Frieze, Domus, Abitare and Harvard Design Magazine. Beatrice studied architecture at Bath University and was awarded an M.Sc in Architectural History from Bartlett, UCL.

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