International Congress

Next Congress:

Congress 2025

Utrecht: Healthy Urban Living

11 - 13 June 2025, Utrecht, Netherlands

We're thrilled to be partnering with the city of Utrecht to host Congress in June 2025. Focused on Healthy Urban Living, the event will explore what Utrecht and other cities are doing across themes like transport, society, and digital worlds.

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Congress is an inspiring, thought-provoking and entertaining opportunity to exchange ideas and hear leading-edge thinking from urbanists around the globe.

It is an opportunity to embed the Academy within a city and utilise the assembled expertise of Academicians to tackle live local issues through hands-on workshops, walking tours and discussions.

Influential contributors to Congress include Charles Montgomery, Happy City; Richard Florida, thought leader and Author; Tina Saaby, former City Architect, Copenhagen; Prof Robert Adams, Director of City Design, City of Melbourne; Jaime Lerner, former Mayor of Curitiba; Sue Riddlestone CBE, CEO of Bioregional; Tinna Nielsen, Founder of Move the Elephant for Inclusiveness; Prof Miren Azkarate, Lead Councillor for Culture, San Sebastián; Anette Galskjøt, Chief Executive, International Federation for Housing and Planning.

The success of Congress owes as much to the background and passions of its participants as to the insights and inspiration of the invited presenters.

Congress 2021 in Edinburgh Study visit: Extending a living city centre: West End, Fountainbridge, Haymarket  

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