Casa at the Open House Worldwide International Conference

Under the theme “Cities for All: Shaping our Cities for the Future”, the conference brought together a group of experts and professionals with the aim of debating the themes of active citizenship and development urban. Among the speakers there were mayors, councillors and architects from cities such as London, Bilbao, Vienna and Brisbane.
To debate how to make cities more inclusive, sustainable and liveable, the Conference was also attended by Suzanne Hall (LSE Cities), Dan Hill (Arup), David Burney (Board Centre for Active Design, New York), Mark Cridge (MySociety) and Alastair Parvin (WikiHouse Foundation).
This 3rd edition of the Open House Worldwide Conference celebrated 25 years of the Open House concept in its hometown of London, while simultaneously launching a new component of research relating to the global impact of the Open House initiative.
Since 2015, Casa da Arquitectura organizes and produces the Open House Porto annually. It is one of the most festive and mobilizing moments for architecture and national heritage, involving dozens of spaces in the three cities of Matosinhos, Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia. Open House Porto has the unique characteristic of being the only one, in the whole world, taking place in more than one city at the same time.