Are visions possible?

How to think about the future of cities—and the whole country? Dutch architect Winy Maas has been working in Czechia for three years as a visiting lecturer at ARCHIP and the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University. Together with students, he explores how bold and research-based concepts can help transform Czech cities. In his lecture, he presented the key visions that had emerged during this collaboration. At ARCHIP, he led the studio The Sky City: Der Himmel über Prag, in which students focused on creating an alternative city in the clouds above Prague. At the Czech Technical University, he was behind the Next Planet study, which explored various ways in which architecture and design can respond to the global climate change.