Norman Foster Foundation

In the fourth #NFFStories podcast, Charlie Palmer, winner of the 2015 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship develops his experience with his winning project ‘Cycling Megacities’ after visiting six developing countries and eleven cities: Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Kolkata, Dhaka, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Shanghai. Charlie Palmer, a young architect at the Norman Foster Foundation graduated from Sheffield University School of Architecture, Sheffield, UK, won in 2015 the annual RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for his proposal ‘Cycling in Megacities.’ His proposed project focuses on exploring the current conditions for cycling in cities of over ten million people. #NFFStories is a new series of podcasts produced by the Norman Foster Foundation that aims to empower our community to make positive change. A new platform for people around the world to share and hear inspirational stories and ideas that are going to shape the future.

In the third #NFFStories podcast, Inventor, entrepreneur and scientist W. Daniel Hillis invite us to discover more about his project ‘The Clock of the Long Now’ also called the ‘10,000 Year Clock’. The project located deep inside the Sierra Diablo mountains along the Texas-Mexico border consists in a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. The mechanical clock under construction aims to be a symbol, an icon for long-term thinking. Daniel Hillis goes on, developing on the topics of technology, progress and the future. W. Daniel Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and writer who is particularly known for his work in computer science. He is best known as the founder of Thinking Machines Corporation, a parallel supercomputer manufacturer. More recently, Hillis co-founded Applied Minds, the technology R&D think-tank. Daniel Hillis was part of the academic body for the 2019 Digital X Workshop held at the Norman Foster Foundation headquarters in Madrid in February. #NFFStories 🔊 is a new series of podcasts produced by the Norman Foster Foundation that aims to empower our community to make positive change. A new platform for people around the world to share and hear inspirational stories and ideas that are going to shape the future. http://www.normanfosterfoundation.org/

Siti Nurafaf Ismail, a 21-year-old Malaysian architecture student from the University of Malaya in Malaysia, won this year's thirteenth annual RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for her proposal ‘Architecture of Humility.’ Her proposed project focuses on exploring the role of the architect within community architecture in natural disaster zones. In this podcast, Siti give an update about her project and its developments. Having already completed the first phase of her research in Lombok, Indonesia she will now examine two other cities affected by natural disasters: Hokkaido in Japan and Karachi in Pakistan. Working with local volunteer organizations, Siti will be exploring each community’s rebuilding process first-hand and examining how architects fit into that experience. #NFFStories 🔊 is a new series of podcasts produced by the Norman Foster Foundation that aims to empower our community to make positive change. A new platform for people around the world to share and hear inspirational stories and ideas that are going to shape the future. http://www.normanfosterfoundation.org/

#NFFStories is a new series of podcasts produced by the Norman Foster Foundation that aims to empower our community to make positive change. A new platform for people around the world to share and hear inspirational stories and ideas that are going to shape the future. In the first episode, we interview Dr #JanicePerlman, Founder and President of The Mega-Cities Project, about the myth of marginality and her work in contesting prevailing stereotypes about migrants and shantytowns and discrediting the policies of eradication by favela removal. http://www.normanfosterfoundation.org/