The fourth edition of the Norman Foster Foundation’s Public Debates on Sustainability took place on Tuesday 24 September 2024 in partnership with Rolex.

The ‘Healthy Cities’ Public Debates, supported by Sanitas and moderated by Catherine Mary Cummings, addressed the significant overlap between healthcare and urban living.

The ‘Cities Beyond Earth’ Public Debates, held on 22 January in Madrid, explored the remarkable confluence of space colonies and the sustainability of our cities on Earth.

The third edition of the Norman Foster Foundation Public Debates on Sustainability took place on Tuesday 14 November 2023 with the support of Rolex, and explored a sustainable future in which more-than-human design re-engages with nature for compassionate co-existence.

The first edition of the Public Debates on Healthy Cities of the Norman Foster Foundation supported by Sanitas took place on Tuesday 18 April 2023.

The Norman Foster Foundation's Public Debates on 'Cities: Affordable Housing' 2022, supported by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, took place on 16 November 2022.

The 2022 edition of the Norman Foster Foundation Sustainability Public Debates, supported by the Rolex Institute, took place on 11 October 2022.

The first edition of the Norman Foster Foundation Shelters Public Debates, supported by Holcim, took place on 8 June 2022.

The first edition of the Norman Foster Foundation Energy Public Debates, supported by GS Energy Corporation, took place on 26 April 2022.

The Norman Foster Foundation Re-Materializing Housing Public Debates, supported by the Holcim Foundation, took place on 17 November 2021.

The first edition of the Norman Foster Foundation Sustainability Public Debates, supported by the Rolex Institute, took place on 19 October 2021.

The 2019 Robotics Public Debates explored ground-breaking innovations made possible by 3D printing within the architecture and construction industries.

The second edition of the public debates On Cities took place on 28 May 2019. The 2019 edition focused on urban informal settlements.

Professor Negroponte pointed out: ‘all things digital are simultaneously local and global, large and small, inside and outside of any given boundary. The digital world is not crisp. It is porous and diffuse...'

The Robotics Public Debate explored how society is on the edge of a transformation through Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

The Urban Mobility Public Debate explored how new technologies could open up an exciting range of opportunities in which the infrastructure of movement and the architecture of buildings can physically merge together.

The On Cities Public Debates explored the premise that emerging urban innovations can dramatically reduce resources consumed by cities while simultaneously creating more livable, entrepreneurial communities.

The first Norman Foster Foundation Digital X Workshop explored the kinship of Architecture and the Digital World in a week-long event hosted in the Madrid headquarters of the Norman Foster Foundation.

The first Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier took place at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, in which ten students from all around the world explored the potential for this field as applied to build and construction technologies.