Associations<\/strong>: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Japan Foundation, and Media Architecture Institute WHAT IS MAB?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Media Architecture Biennale (MAB) is the world’s premier event on media architecture, urban interaction design, and urban informatics. It brings together architects, artists and designers, leading thinkers on urban design, key industry and government representatives as well as community activists. Together, they explore the design and role of media in the built environment and its implications for urban communities and ecosystems. The objectives of MAB are; <\/p>\n\n\n\n Previous MABs have been held in Toronto (2023), Amsterdam\/Utrecht (2020), Beijing (2018), Sydney (2016), Aarhus (2014, 2012), Vienna (2010), Berlin (2008), and London (2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Media Architecture Biennale 2025 in Bangkok\u00a0 THEME<\/strong> People seek spaces that respond to their needs, express their identities, and share narratives that connect with their communities and ways of life. As such, the \u2018city\u2019 plays a vital role as a space for participation, exchange of ideas, and dialogue\u2014 becoming a platform for interaction that integrates knowledge, design, data, and media technologies to reflect the evolving relationship between humans, the urban environment, and technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The main theme includes 3 sub-themes;\u00a0 2) New Media Paradigms, Reshaping the Cities 3) Urban Future & Transhuman Citizens
Organisers<\/strong>: ESIC Lab King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Urban Ally Silpakorn University, CLICK Thammasat University, CommDe Chulalongkorn University, FabCafe Bangkok, MVMNT, Glow Story, and Media Facade\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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will be the first city in Southeast Asia to host the Media Architecture Biennale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Urban Dialogue; transformative Living Phenomena\u2019
Urban development in the 21st century is no longer defined solely by infrastructure expansion or conventional planning models. The dynamic changes driven by population growth have led cities to expand without boundaries, reflecting the increasing complexity and diversity that all urban environments must confront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Vibrant Culture with Media Architecture
(Community Scale)
Exploration the role and potential of media architecture in enriching cultural life at the community scale. Support identity expression and highlight the ethnic and cultural diversity in contemporary urban contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(City Scale)
Transformation at the city scale. Highlighting the use of network communication and information technologies \u2014such as Big Data, AI, IoT, XR and intelligent information systems\u2014as key drivers in designing and organizing urban systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Global Scale)
Creation of future cities goes beyond physical boundaries. The world that blends the physical and virtual realities to support new ways of living, engaging in activities, and shaping environments for the urban futures to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n