A Look back at RIXARCH 2026

RIXARCH 2026: LIV-IN

LIV-IN stands as 2026´s theme, it asks how we live-in cities today—and how we might live-in them better tomorrow. The hyphen signals a shift from static “housing” to processes of inhabitation embedded in infrastructures, economies, technologies, and cultures.

We open LIV-IN through two lenses:

LIV — life, livability, living infrastructures, living innovations.

Cities as metabolic systems: energy, materials, climate adaptation, ecosystems, and social vitality.

IN — in-place, in-common, in-between, inclusive, intergenerational, interoperable, intelligent.

The preposition emphasizes embeddedness: living in data and platforms (smart/AI), in finance and policy, in commons and cooperatives, in everyday domestic rituals, in public–private thresholds.

By bridging home-house–housing within an urban–architectural continuum, RIXARCH 2026 invites scholarship and practice that connect the scale of the room and the household to the block, district, and region—testing how design, development, policy, and technology co-produce the conditions of dwelling.

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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?

These were just the proposed themes to be presented at the confence, where seven Keynote Speakers and thirty-nine Academic Presenters brought us even deeper into varied topics ranging from architecture, sociology, economics and more.
Here are a few more pictures from this exiting day:

Thanks for your participation, and see you next year!