Most towns in the tropics will have a droneport before the year 2030. These buildings will fuel, store, load, route, repair, and birth a fleet of futuristic cargo drone craft. The droneport will be a new civic building for the 21st century – an entirely new type of airport. Droneports will vary in size and form, but share rules laid out in the Redline droneport concept by Jonathan Ledgard, Norman Foster, Narinder Sagoo and others. This talk will illustrate the droneport and show how it will save lives and create jobs at scale. - - - - - Founder of Redline Cargo drone network. Inventor of the Droneport concept. Leading thinker on advanced technologies and species survival in emerging economies. Director of Ledgard Labs, former director of Future Africa at EPFL, longtime foreign political and war correspondent for The Economist. Present work includes robots, AI, neuroscience, deep ocean. Separately, a novelist. - - - - - Aerial Futures is organized by PLANE—SITE (http://www.plane-site.com) Founding member: Fentress Architects (http://www.fentressarchitects.com) - - - - - In coordination with the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, AERIAL FUTURES, GROUNDED VISIONS: Shaping the Airport Terminal of Tomorrow was a two-day symposium that took place from October 17th to 19th, 2016. The symposium brought together diverse voices in a discussion about the future of air travel, as seen through the lenses of architecture, design, technology, culture and user experience. Airports and the aviation industry are at the frontline of global demographic shifts, acting as economic engines and cultural icons. Despite being among the youngest of building typologies, airports are taking the lead as intricately-designed, highly frequented and resource-intensive structures that define how we travel, trade and connect with each other. Sessions at the symposium incorporated presentations and roundtable discussions regarding various aspects of airpot design. Aerial Futures was organized around four main themes represented in the following panels: Fantastic Infrastructure: 21st Century Terminals, Icons and Engines: Catalysts for Urban Development, Getting to Departures: User Experience, and Landing in the World of Tomorrow. Participants included: Frank Barich, Barich Consulting Nelly Ben Hayoun, NBH Studios Miklos Deri, Drive Through Airport Lukas Feireiss, Studio Lukas Feireiss Curtis Fentress, Founder & Principal, Fentress Architects Anna Gasco, ETH Zurich / Future Cities Laboratory Max Hirsh, University of Hong Kong Christian Henriksen, Nordic Office for Architecture George Kafka, &beyond collective Agatha Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Jonathan Ledgard, The Droneport Project / EPFL Lausanne Tobias Nolte, Certain Measures Dr. Wayne Place, NC State University College of Design Ashok Raiji, Arup New York Andres F. Ramirez, PLANE—SITE Ostap Rudakevych, Clouds Architecture Office Sila Siva, Autoban Alex Sutton, Sevil Peach Architecture + Design Tom Theobald, Fentress Architects Andrew Vasey, Vasey Aviation Group Martin Zangerl, UNStudio

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