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FUTUREPERFECT TALKS

FUTUREPERFECT TALKS

By BASE2 / John Manoochehri

Spatial Technologies for the Worlds We Make Powered by Last Meter®, by John Manoochehri / BASE2 Sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine Futureperfect is the conversation space for imagining & building sustainable worlds. How do we design, build, live, work in an urban, technological world? What value, services & experiences are we designing into new & old spaces? Designers, technologists, policymakers, entrepreneurs explore these themes, hosted by architect John Manoochehri of BASE2 Data + Design. BASE2 integrates space and services, with Last Meter®. base2.work lastmeter.info
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#9 - ARCHITECTURE & CITIES PODCASTS & MEDIA

FUTUREPERFECT TALKSMar 10, 2021

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#15 - MICROMOBILITY

#15 - MICROMOBILITY

A Futureperfect Talk on micromobility, including city design, investment, safety and more, with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Horace Dediu (Asymco), Caroline Hjelm (Voi), Sampo Hietanen (MaaS Global), and Adam Wais (Rolo Bikes, Motion Devices).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

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Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Oct 31, 202101:51:33
#14 - NEW WORLDS

#14 - NEW WORLDS

A Futureperfect Talk on new worlds and the world-building imagination, games, the Metaverse, and more , with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Oskar Stålberg (Townscaper), Greg Kythreoetis (Sable).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

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Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

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base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Recommended follow-up

Hypar

Canoa

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Oct 05, 202102:01:05
#13 - ROBOTS & AUTOMATION

#13 - ROBOTS & AUTOMATION

A Futureperfect Talk on robots and automation in the built design sector, with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Brian Ringley (Boston Dynamics), Daniel Hall (ETH Zürich), Petr Novikov (Apt Buildings).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

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Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

---

Recommended follow-up

Hypar

Canoa

Women in BIM

Tech News from Around The World

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Jul 30, 202101:37:07
#12 - DIGITAL DESIGN PRACTICE

#12 - DIGITAL DESIGN PRACTICE

A Futureperfect Talk on the state of Digital Design in large architectural practices, with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Shahjay Bhooshan (Zaha Hadid Architects), Mark Cichy (HOK), Jonas Runberger (White Architects). 

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

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Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

---

Recommended follow-up

Hypar

Canoa

Women in BIM

Tech News from Around The World

Blender BIM

xbim

Jun 29, 202102:08:57
#11 - HOUSING FOR ALL PT II - VERTICALIZATION

#11 - HOUSING FOR ALL PT II - VERTICALIZATION

A Futureperfect Talk on Housing for All - Part II on Verticalization - with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Oliver Lang (Intelligent City) and Fed Novikov (Apt Buildings).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

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Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

---

Recommended follow-up

Hypar 

Canoa

Women in BIM

Tech News from Around The World

Blender BIM




May 30, 202101:48:01
#10 - HOUSING FOR ALL PT I - MODULARITY

#10 - HOUSING FOR ALL PT I - MODULARITY

A Futureperfect Talk on Housing for All - Part I on Modularity and Access to Housing - with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Mollie Claypool (Automated Architecture), Alastair Parvin (Open Systems Labs), and Brian Ringley (Boston Dynamics).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

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Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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May 30, 202102:04:25
#9 - ARCHITECTURE & CITIES PODCASTS & MEDIA

#9 - ARCHITECTURE & CITIES PODCASTS & MEDIA

A Futureperfect Talk on Architecture, Cities and Podcasts - Who, What, Why in a Changing Media Landscape with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Evan Troxel (TRXL Podcast, Archispeak), and Luke Jones (About Buildings & Cities Podcast), powered by Last Meter®.

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

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Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Image is of Steve Jobs explaining podcasting, and announcing podcast integration into iTunes at WWDC 2005. 

Mar 10, 202101:55:31
#8 - CITIES, PLANNING & THE NEW SERVICE ECONOMY

#8 - CITIES, PLANNING & THE NEW SERVICE ECONOMY

A Futureperfect Talk on Cities, Planning and the New Service Economy with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Ray Gastil (Remaking Cities Instute, CMU/Gastilworks), and Christer Larsson, respectively the former City Planning Directors in Pittsburgh and Malmö, powered by Last Meter®.

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

---

Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Image is of the Joseph Weis US Post Office and Courthouse, Pittsburgh. There was a time last mile personal logistics, currently powering the on-demand economy, was a proud part of city governance and instructure, under the name: 'the postal service'.

Feb 24, 202101:35:45
#7 - OPEN SOURCE DESIGN TOOLS FOR ARCHITECTURE

#7 - OPEN SOURCE DESIGN TOOLS FOR ARCHITECTURE

A Futureperfect Talk on open source software, open source design tools for AEC and more, and the cultures around them with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Dion Moult (BlenderBIM), Yorik van Havre (FreeCAD) and Bruno Postle (Homemaker) share experiences, perspectives and outlook on what's going on and what's next.

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

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Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Image is of Grace Hopper working with UNIVAC. Hopper wrote A-0 one of the first computer languages which, when it was published in a later edition A-2 in 1953, was the first example of 'open source' software in history. 



Feb 22, 202102:30:56
#6 - BIM, DIGITAL TWINS & BEYOND

#6 - BIM, DIGITAL TWINS & BEYOND

A Futureperfect Talk on BIM, digital twins and what's next, with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Vicki Reynolds (i3pt/Women in BIM), Alain Waha (Cogital/Buro Happold), and Melanie Robinson (BIM Academy) share experiences, perspectives and outlook on what's going on and what's next.

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

---

Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Feb 12, 202101:55:21
#5 - GAMES, ENGINES, DESIGN TOOLS

#5 - GAMES, ENGINES, DESIGN TOOLS

A Futureperfect Talk on games, game engines and development, and the AEC (architecture engineering construction) design tool space, with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Oskar Stålberg (Townscaper), David Weir-McCall (Unreal Engine / Epic Game) and Futureperfect Talks veteran Andrew Heumann (Hypar).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

---

Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Jan 22, 202102:07:29
#4 - PUBLIC HOUSING, RETROFIT, AND USER SERVICES

#4 - PUBLIC HOUSING, RETROFIT, AND USER SERVICES

A Futureperfect Talk on the public housing, the dynamics around retrofit in the US and Europe, and how user services - often considered to be luxuries such as grocery delivery and cleaning - can be framed as social services, with Michele Knapp (Cocoon Construct) and Erik Stenberg (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

---

Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Jan 18, 202101:38:27
#3 - ARCHITECTURAL OPTIMIZATION: TOOLS, METHODS, CLIENTS

#3 - ARCHITECTURAL OPTIMIZATION: TOOLS, METHODS, CLIENTS

A Futureperfect Talk on various approaches to computational optimization of architecture - the tools we are building, the tools we are not, what is going on out there, and what's next, with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Clifton Harness (TestFit), and André Agi (Data Trees).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

---

Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Oct 27, 202001:31:32
#2 - COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE: CULTURE, BIZ, EDU, SOCIAL

#2 - COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE: CULTURE, BIZ, EDU, SOCIAL

A Futureperfect Talk to share perspectives on the implications and forces around computational architecture - not about the technical nitty-gritty, with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Andrew Heumann (Hypar), Jonas Runberger (White).

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

---

Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

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Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Oct 01, 202001:37:22
#1 - SUSTAINABILITY OBLIGATIONS AND INCENTIVES

#1 - SUSTAINABILITY OBLIGATIONS AND INCENTIVES

A Futureperfect Talk to share perspectives on the opportunities and issues around sustainability in the built environment, with John Manoochehri (BASE2), Federico Negro (Canoa), Antony Slumbers (Real Innovation Academy).

 (Apologies for audio quality - it gets better after 15 mins)

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Futureperfect Talks are the unfinished stories of spatial technologies & the worlds we make, led by BASE2.

Architecture, sustainability, tech collide - so what happens next?

Subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and join live Futureperfect Talks on Twitter Spaces @_futureperfect.

---

Futureperfect Talks are powered by Last Meter®, the service integration platform by BASE2 and partners.

lastmeter.info

base2.works

---

Season 2 of the Futureperfect Talks are sponsored by Epic Games / Unreal Engine. Explore more here

Download Unreal Engine / Twin Motion.

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Aug 19, 202001:32:18