The 2016 Quality of Life Conference will bring together key voices from the worlds of architecture, business, design, urbanism and culture to discuss how to improve our nations, cities and workplaces. Welcoming 200 delegates and 20 speakers from around the world, the event will be hosted at the historic Palais Ferstel by Monocle’s Editor-in-Chief Tyler Brûlé, alongside the magazine’s editors and correspondents. The summit will also be broadcast live on Monocle 24 Radio and will featured in a series of films on the Monocle website.
Tyler Brûlé has said: "We chose Vienna because the Austrian capital is consistently the leader when it comes to quality of life and overall liveability. Beyond that, we feel that Vienna has a number of unique initiatives that will both inform and inspire our delegates." He added that "the conference will continue to bolster the dialogue that we not only established at our first conference in Lisbon last year but that we have also been filling our pages with since we launched in 2007: the themes of creating a better public realm, encouraging apprenticeships and building our cities, offices and homes right the first time."
On the Saturday of the summit, panels will look at the future of communication, creating healthy architecture, fixing hospitality from brand to city level, and offering a fresh perspective on nation building. Among others, guest speakers include: Yoko Alender, Dr Ecmel Ayral, Tara Bernerd, Juergen Boos, Ilse Crawford, Bill Granger, Martin Guttman, Michael Hill, Lilli Hollein, Mirik Milan, Petter Neby, Jacques Panis, Robin Petravic, Till Reiter, Gianni Riotta, RT Rybak, David Sax, David Sim, Gregor Wenter and Diana Balmori.
Monocle is also organising an open day for ateliers and independent shop owners to meet the delegates and demonstrate Vienna’s approach to keeping craft and manufacturing in the city’s core. They will also be launching two new books at the conference: How to Make a Nation: A Monocle Guide and the Vienna edition of The Monocle Travel Guide series.
The annual Quality of Life Conference will be held in Vienna from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th April 2016. You can see the full schedule, here.
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The 2016 Monocle Quality of Life ConferenceType
ConferenceOrganizers
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April 15, 2016 08:00 PMUntil
April 17, 2016 05:00 PMVenue
Vienna, AustriaAddress
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