LIVING FUTURE '27

APRIL 27–30 • PORTLAND, OREGON

A global gathering dedicated to transformative, restorative design.

Living Future '27

Incubating the built environment's most audacious ideas.

Living Future convenes cross-disciplinary professionals to collaborate on actionable solutions for climate change, materials health, and community equity.

For four days in Portland, we’ll come together to celebrate what’s possible, spotlight the incredible work already underway, push beyond the status quo, and forge new collaborations, even in the face of headwinds.

The Experience

Come for the work.
Stay for the people.

Living Future is designed for more than sitting in sessions. Across four days, you’ll encounter ideas, projects, materials, questions, and people working across the built environment.

Go deeper

Learn from practitioners working through real projects, real constraints, and the questions that come next.

Join the conversation

Bring your own experience into Exchanges, roundtables, facilitated discussions, and participant-led conversations.

See what’s possible

Encounter projects, materials, organizations, and ideas already changing what the built environment can be.

Make connections

Meet people working across disciplines, sectors, and scales, with time and space for conversations that continue beyond a session.

The Program

Four ways into the conversation.

Climate & Place

Restoring relationships with place in a changing climate.

Explore the forces shaping the places we inhabit and the changes needed to help them thrive; climate resilience, carbon, biodiversity, water, energy, ecology, community, belonging, and our relationship to place.

Business & Delivery

Transforming the models that bring ideas to life.

Challenge the ways projects are financed, developed, procured, led, and delivered. Explore new business models, organizational practices, partnerships, and approaches to project delivery that can move better ideas from possibility to practice.

Design & Materials

Rethinking design methods, materials, and supply chains.

Reimagine how we design, make, specify, and use the things that shape our built environment. Explore materials, human health, circularity, transparency, manufacturing, and design approaches that can create healthier, more regenerative places and products.

Policy & Leadership

Advancing the systems change the future demands.

Shift the policies, practices, and power structures that shape what is possible. Explore advocacy, governance, leadership, systems change, and collective action that can change the conditions in which regenerative work takes root and grows.

Exchanges

What if networking wasn't something you squeezed in between sessions?

At Living Future, connection is part of the program.

Exchanges create dedicated space for the conversations that don’t fit neatly into a presentation. Bring a question, share what you’re learning, compare approaches, or work through a challenge with people facing similar questions.

RoundtablesCompare perspectives around a shared question.

Peer exchangesShare what’s working, what isn’t, and what you’re learning.

Labs & facilitated discussionsExplore ideas together rather than simply listening.

Find Your Way In

Your work has a place here.

Living Future brings together people who influence the built environment in different ways. You don’t need a traditional design role, or a particular level of experience, to participate.

Architects & designers

Rethinking how places are designed and experienced.

Owners & developers

Changing the conditions in which better projects get built.

Manufacturers & product leaders

Transforming the materials and systems behind the work.

Engineers & contractors

Turning ambitious ideas into projects that can actually work.

Policy & advocacy leaders

Changing the policies and systems that shape what is possible.

Researchers, educators & community leaders

Building knowledge, questioning assumptions, and expanding the conversation.

What's in your ticket

Your Living Future '27 registration brings together four days of learning, connection, and exchange in Portland. From meals and receptions to time with a community working to transform the built environment, your ticket includes more than access to sessions.

Meals & coffee breaks

Breakfast and lunch on Wednesday and Thursday, plus coffee breaks Tuesday through Thursday.

Receptions & afterparty

Join fellow attendees at Tuesday and Wednesday receptions, then continue the conversations at Thursday's afterparty.

Complimentary parking

Free parking for conference attendees, whether you're staying overnight at the hotel or driving in for the day.

Tours & place-based learning

Explore projects and places around Portland. Tours require separate sign-up and have limited capacity.

Sessions & workshops

Learn from practitioners and explore actionable approaches to regenerative design across the built environment.

Community & connection

Connect across disciplines, exchange ideas, and meet people putting ambitious ideas into practice.

Join us in Portland.

Register early for the lowest rate. Your registration includes four days of programming, conversations, and opportunities to connect with people working across the built environment.

Founding Rate

$1,250 · Through October 15

Early Bird

$1,450 · Through December 18

Standard

$1,650 · Through March 21

Last Call

$1,850 · Through April 27

Professional Members save $200 off registration

Group Discount
Planning to attend with colleagues? Groups of three or more registrations purchased together receive 10% off each registration. The discount applies automatically at checkout.

Discounts cannot be combined or applied retroactively.

Explore the Ecosystem

The work is bigger than any one building.

Living Future brings together the people, places, materials, and organizations shaping a more regenerative built environment. Explore a few pathways into that work, then go deeper on our ecosystem page.

Buildings

Explore places that are rethinking what buildings can do for people, communities, and the ecosystems around them.

Explore buildings →

Materials

Discover products and materials advancing transparency, health, circularity, and a more regenerative material economy.

Explore materials →

Interior gathering space at the PAE Living Building

Organizations

Meet organizations examining how they work, making their practices visible, and creating the conditions for lasting change.

Explore organizations →

Find Your Way In

Questions welcome.

Do I need to be familiar with Living Future or regenerative design to attend?

The conference welcomes people at every stage of their work. Some attendees have been working with Living Future programs for years. Others are encountering regenerative design for the first time. The program includes opportunities to build foundational knowledge, learn from real-world projects, and go deeper into emerging ideas and practices. Come with questions, experience to share, or simply a curiosity about what’s possible.

Who is the Living Future Conference for?

The Living Future Conference is for people working to change the way we design, build, operate, finance, regulate, and experience the built environment. You’ll find architects and designers alongside developers, engineers, contractors, manufacturers, policymakers, advocates, researchers, educators, community leaders, and others working across the industry. You don’t need to work in a traditional building or design role to belong here. If you’re helping move the built environment toward a more restorative future, there’s a place for you.

What makes the Living Future Conference different from other built environment conferences?

Living Future is focused not only on what the industry should do differently, but on the people already doing it. The conference brings together practitioners and changemakers to share what they’re learning in practice, examine what’s working and what isn’t, challenge conventional approaches, and explore what comes next. Expect fewer polished success stories and more honest conversations about the work, the obstacles, the lessons, and the possibilities.

Partner With Us

Help shape what comes next.

The Living Future Conference brings together a community actively changing the way the built environment is designed, built, and experienced.

Connect your organization with practitioners, leaders, and innovators working across the field.

Explore sponsorship and exhibiting →

Portland, Oregon

See you in Portland.

Professional Members save $200 off registration

Planning to attend with colleagues? Groups of three or more registrations purchased together receive 10% off each registration. The discount applies automatically at checkout.

A global gathering dedicated to transformative, restorative design.

Incubating the built environment's most audacious ideas.

Come for the work.Stay for the people.

Go deeper

Join the conversation

See what’s possible

Make connections

Four ways into the conversation.

Climate & Place

Business & Delivery

Design & Materials

Policy & Leadership

What if networking wasn't something you squeezed in between sessions?

Your work has a place here.

Architects & designers

Owners & developers

Manufacturers & product leaders

Engineers & contractors

Policy & advocacy leaders

Researchers, educators & community leaders

Meals & coffee breaks

Receptions & afterparty

Complimentary parking

Tours & place-based learning

Sessions & workshops

Community & connection

Join us in Portland.

The work is bigger than any one building.

Buildings

Materials

Organizations

Questions welcome.

Help shape what comes next.

See you in Portland.

Come for the work.
Stay for the people.