Seeking the City of the Future, in Prague

This week, CityLab’s UK bureau chief and European correspondent Feargus O’Sullivan has been dispatched to the Czech Republic to moderate a panel at In/visible City, a two-day conference running today and tomorrow in Prague. It’s organized by reSITE, a Czech-based nonprofit that focuses on urban development and design. The group’s stated mission: To create “more lovable and livable cities.”

CityLab also signed on as a co-sponsor of reSITE’s big annual event this year, which is devoted to understanding the cities of the future, and Feargus will be posting reports from some of his conversations next week. In the meantime, we asked reSITE’s founder and director, landscape architect Martin Barry, to explain just what In/visible City is all about, and why an Old World town like Prague is a good place to ponder the urban spaces of tomorrow. This interview was conducted in Prague by Jan Stepanek and has been edited and condensed.