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 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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Portland, Oregon

See you in Portland.

Founding Rate · $1,250 through October 15

Professional Members save $200 off registration