Conference venue and time:

• 27.05.2026. – 28.05.2026.
• Riga, Latvia – on-site and via virtual platforms

Conference Focus: Technology, Turbulence, and Transformation: Reimagining Business and Society for a Sustainable Future

In a world shaped by accelerating technologies and growing geopolitical and economic turbulence, organisations face challenges that demand more than incremental change.

Artificial intelligence, digital ecosystems, and automation are transforming business models and societal structures, while political instability, climate pressures, and shifting global dynamics redefine the environment in which they operate.

Reimagining business and society for a sustainable future requires integrating technological innovation with responsible leadership, resilience, and long-term thinking. Companies and institutions must learn to adapt quickly, build agile and future-proof strategies, and ensure that technology contributes to inclusive growth and sustainable development.

ASBBMC brings together researchers, business leaders, and policymakers to explore these themes, share insights, and shape pathways toward resilient and sustainable societies. Together, we address the transformational effects of technology, the realities of global turbulence, and the leadership required for the future.

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The lecture begins at 2:00 p.m.

Key topics:
• Why people choose to donate
• Emotional storytelling vs. ethical responsibility
• Building trust in communication
• The real challenges of persuading people
• Turning awareness into action

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We are excited to announce that the IV International Architectural Design Conference – RIXARCH 2026 will take place on March 31 – April 1, 2026, bringing together leading researchers, practitioners, architects, designers, students, and policy-makers to explore the 2026 conference theme: LIV-IN.

About the Theme: LIV-IN

LIV-IN asks how we live-in cities today – and how we might live-in them better tomorrow.
The hyphen signals a shift from static “housing” toward processes of inhabitation embedded in infrastructures, economies, technologies, and cultures.

The theme opens through two conceptual lenses:

• LIV – life, livability, living infrastructures, living innovations. Cities as metabolic systems: energy, materials, ecosystems, climate adaptation, and social vitality.
• IN – in-place, in-common, in-between, inclusive, intergenerational, interoperable, intelligent. A focus on embeddedness: living in data and platforms (AI/smart systems), in finance and policy, in commons and cooperatives, in domestic rituals, and in public–private thresholds.

By bridging the continuum of ��dz���–h�dzܲ���–h�dzܲ����Բ�, RIXARCH 2026 invites scholarship and practice that connect the scale of the room and household to the block, district, and region – testing how design, development, policy, and technology co-produce the conditions of dwelling.

Key questions include:

• When does a house become a home – and how do design, tenure, and policy enable or erode that transition?
• How do housing products (turnkey rental, co-living, micro-units) reshape social contracts and urban form?
• How might responsible design address affordability, climate risk, and inclusivity without sacrificing dignity and aesthetics?

2026 Topic Tracks

Urban Living: Philosophical Aspects & Urban Metaphors

Inhabitation as ethos; dwelling phenomenology; home–city metaphors; place-attachment; time–space relations.

Urban Typologies

Perimeter blocks, hybrid slabs, vertical communities, transit-based housing, adaptive reuse, interior–urban continuums.

Private Houses & Villas

Urban villas, townhouses, courtyard houses, guest houses, densification without high-rise, family/collective hybrids, thresholds between garden–street–home, heritage contexts.

Responsible Design (ESG)

Just transition; circular construction; social value; governance frameworks; design ethics.

Housing & Turnkey Rental Products

Built-to-rent, micro-living, dormitories; standardization vs. customization; lifecycle and quality.

Co-op Living & Commons

Co-housing, community land trusts, shared infrastructures, care networks, new governance models.

Innovations & Technologies

Industrialized construction (MMC), timber and bio-based materials, digital twins, AI-driven design and management, digital rental platforms.

Smart Cities & Domestic Data

Sensors and analytics, energy management, privacy, ethics, and their impact on everyday life.

Soft City (after David Sim)

Human-scale density, proximity services, walkability, mixed use – and translating these into policy.

Banking Sector & Finance Models

Mortgages, REITs, cooperative and ethical finance, risk management.

Real Estate & Development Perspectives

Viability, procurement, policy alignment, partnerships across public and private stakeholders.

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31 March 2026 | 15:00–20:00
Dance Hall, H2O 6 Quarter
Durbes iela 4, Riga

As part of the annual RIXARCH Architecture Conference, an introductory event will take place focusing on urgent challenges in the urban environment and possible solutions. The opening event is planned as a collaborative workshop bringing together private and public property developers from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, as well as international experts participating in the RIXARCH LIV-IN conference.

Developers are invited to present a specific challenge from their projects — a site, place, or situation that requires new ideas or potential solutions.

Working in small groups together with the conference keynote speakers and invited experts from Latvia, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, participants will analyse the presented cases and jointly explore possible scenarios and strategic approaches.

The workshop creates a practical environment where professional experience, research, and design thinking meet, generating new perspectives on innovative housing and inhabitation models, as well as future-oriented urban transformation.

Property developers, municipal representatives, planners, and urban professionals are warmly invited to participate in this hands-on session to explore new perspectives on innovative inhabitation models.

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The graduation ceremony will take place at 2.00 pm
Aistere Hall, Aisteres iela 2

Arrival

Graduates are expected to arrive from 12.00 pm at the foyer of Durbes iela 4 to sign for the receipt of their diplomas and to collect their ceremonial gowns and caps.

Please note that after the event you will be required to return the gown and cap and sign for their return.

Photography

Please note that the event will be filmed and photographed.

If, for any reason, you do not wish your photograph to be publicly displayed, please inform the ���������Թ� Marketing and Communication Department by emailing riseba.riseba@gmail.com.

We warmly invite graduates, their loved ones, academic staff and partners to reserve this date and join us for this special celebration.

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