Alper Derinboğaz at BIG SEE Festival 2026

Salon founder Alper Derinboğaz took part in BIG SEE Festival 2026 on May 22 in Portorož with two presentations. He first presented Quartz Plaza on the Architecture & Product Design stage, followed by his talk “What must we teach today to matter in 20 years?” on the Perspectives stage, reflecting on the future of architectural education and the critical modes of thinking needed for the decades ahead.

The 2026 edition marked the first unified staging of BIG SEE Festival, bringing together over 3,000 architects, designers and industry leaders from more than 50 countries at the historic Grando warehouse.

Alper Derinboğaz’s session took place alongside international voices including Diego Tobalina González, Head of the Innovation and Design Unit at the Norman Foster Foundation, Francesco Giacobello of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and Erhan Vural, founder of Erhan Vural Architecture & Urban Design, part of a wider conference program built around the question “Too much? What is just enough?”