Sponsored by Çanakkale Seramik & Kalebodur, the 1st Infra-free Architecture Symposium brought together many well-known names in the fields of architecture and space sciences.

Associate Professor Serkan Anılır, a faculty member at Tokyo University, and Çanakkale Seramik & Kalebodur, the locomotive brands of the Kale Group of companies started to prepare for this event for approximately one year in advance. The symposium introduced a new perspective on the architecture of the future. The objective of the symposium is to make architecture less dependent on infrastructure, which, by its very nature, has a detrimental effect on the former.

Chaired by Associate Professor Serkan Anılır, the symposium hosted many scientists, architects, industrial designers, science-fiction writers, astronauts and participants of large-scale NASA projects from countries such as Italy, Japan, USA, China, Ireland, and Germany. The participants were as follows:

• Associate Professor Serkan Anılır, Architect, Tokyo University, Japan
• Roberto Vittori, Astronaut, ESA, Italy
• Prof. Kengo Kuma, Architect, Japan
• Prof. Dr. Shuichi Matsumura, Architect, Tokyo University, Japan
• Prof. Dr. Kenichi Kawaguchi, Architect-Engineer, Tokyo University, Japan
• Prof. Dr. A. Scott Howe, Architect-Robotic, Hong Kong University, China
• John P. Allen, Biosphere II Project Manager, Arizona, USA
• James P. Hogan, Science-Fiction writer, Ireland
• Dr. Silvano Colombano, Robotic Project Manager, NASA-Ames, USA
• Brent Sherwood, Project Manager, NASA-JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), USA
• Arturo Vittori, Industrial Designer, MOFA2006 Award Recipient, Italy
• Andreas Vogler, Architect, MOFA2006 Award Recipient, Germany