Richard Wood

On Placemaking: The Strategy and Creativity of Making Places

Richard Wood, Managing Director Asia at Snøhetta, is invited to speak at FIND – Design Fair Asia 2024. It will start at 11am on Thursday, September 26.

Richard's talk will evolve around the theme "On Placemaking: The Strategy and Creativity of Making Places", discussing Snøhetta's core values, exploring the key elements and challenges of placemaking in Asia – understanding site characteristics, and integrating functional and aesthetic elements to create spaces that resonate with local cultures, enhancing the social, economic, and environmental aspects of both urban and rural areas.

The session is free to attend. Please register in advance using this link to collect your digital badge.

At its best placemaking could be invisible. The creation of places for life, for people, for interaction. Of course, it is in this simplicity, that the complexity is borne. The creation of new urban environments must contend with history, with identity and with future... and to reconcile all of these, it must almost always be daring.

Richard Wood