Shaping Built-Environment Future Mindsets

Architecture cannot shape the future alone — but can the built-environment professions learn to think together?

This high-level panel, convened through an unprecedented collaboration between UIA Architectural Education Commission, the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE), the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), and the Pan American Federation of Architects (FPAA), brings together leaders from across the built-environment disciplines to confront two urgent questions: What should transdisciplinary education look like when professional boundaries are dissolving? And what kind of professionals does the twenty-first century actually demand? Panellists include Roberto Cavallo representing EAAE, Marina Cervera for IFLA, Sebnem Hoskara for ISOCARP, Dubravko Bacic bringing the perspective of ACE and the University of Zagreb, and María Samaniego representing FPAA. Moderated by the UIA EDUCOM Co-Directors Selma Harrington and Ashraf M. Salama, participants will deliver provocative position statements designed to unsettle disciplinary complacency and expose the fault lines between institutional inertia and the radical rethinking that climate crisis, rapid urbanisation, and social inequality require. This session is a deliberate collision of perspectives intended to forge new alliances and challenge every assumption about how we educate for the built environment. If the professions that shape cities, landscapes, infrastructure, and buildings cannot find common pedagogical ground, what hope is there for the integrated practice the world so desperately needs?