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Directors have the art of visualising the future nailed. Film can at an instant make the utopian world tangible and provide the provocations to get us thinking, but why has the popular future become such an unobtainable place?

Architects once aligned themselves with the future, fusing their visions to political ideals and ambitions for a bolder tomorrow, but where is our contemporary vision coming from? Who is imagining tomorrow and what will be the drivers? Is our future suffering from a lack of faith and leadership in the present? Can we regain it?

RIBA Building Futures with WIRED magazine| host a multi-disciplinary evening fusing film from the BFI's unique mediatheque, architecture and debate to reveal our ambitions for tomorrow.

Chaired by WIRED's editor at large Ben Hammersley with:

• François Penz Reader in Architecture and the Moving Image at the University of Cambridge
• Eric Parry founder and Co-Director of Eric Parry Architects
• Sean Griffiths Director and Co-Founder of FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste Ltd) and
• Emily Campbell Head of Design at Royal Society of Arts