Early this month, a new think tank ‘The Why Factory‘ opened at the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. The Why Factory was conceived as a global urban think tank and research institute led by Professor Winy Maas. It started in 2008 with the ambition to enlarge the argumentative power of the architectural and urbanistic profession. The Why Factory’s future cities research program explores the endless possibilities for the development of our cities – at a moment that a majority of the world’s population becomes citizen. The outcome is a series of models and visualisations for the cities of the future, theories and practical solutions, proposals for existing cities, applied software design, movies and a series of publications by Nai Publishers.
