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MoveScape Central Asia 2025

"The City That Moves: Standards, Trends, Technologies and the Emotions of Space"

October 18–19, 2025
Almaty
Satbayev University

Forum Concept

Movescape Central Asia is a new format for professional dialogue on architecture, urbanism and the standards of the future.

It brings together architects, urbanists, engineers, developers, universities, solution manufacturers and media to rethink how cities are created—cities where people want to live, breathe and move.

The forum grew from the author's concept of Alfiya Kalmaganbetova (Sport in Square World, SIS Code, SIS Academy) and became a continuation of her many years of work in the field of inclusive urban design, environment quality standards and urban innovations.

The main idea of the forum: "The City as a System of Living Standards" — where architecture, education, digitalization and culture unite into a single ecosystem of human meanings.

Main Directions

1

Next-Generation Standards

Integration of international systems WELL, ESG, LEED, BREEAM, GOST and local SIS Code standards — as tools for real assessment of urban environment quality. Discussion of the transition from formal norms to living, emotional standards.

2

Gamification and Digital Urbanism

A unique focus of the forum — the introduction of game and digital technologies into architecture and landscaping. The SIS Play & Gym system, QR routes, and interactive codes become tools for engaging residents.

3

Architecture and Environmental Trends

The city as a living organism, where architecture becomes a language of emotions. Panels on Pop-Art, visual code, design, media and the role of art in shaping urban identity.

4

Innovation, Impact and Sustainable Economy

The second day is dedicated to technologies, ESG, green roofs, energy-efficient materials and impact design, where standards become not reporting but a strategy for city development.

Forum Program

DAY 1 October 18

📍 Satbayev University

Architecture, Standards and Urban Environment Culture

  • Architecture of Life: Quality standards of urban environment, parks and courtyards of a new generation
  • Landscape as city scenario: ecology, landscaping and living environmental standards
  • Exploitable and green roofs as a new urban resource
  • Inclusive and play spaces as part of a comfortable city
  • City on screen: media as architect of public perception
  • University as city laboratory: education, standards and codes of the future

DAY 2 October 19

📍 Satbayev University / Almaty Business Center

Innovation, Standards and Impact Development

  • Next-level standards: integration of WELL, ESG, LEED and GOST into city and real estate projects
  • Innovative city of the future: science, digitalization, creativity and impact
  • Commercial real estate and architecture of sustainable business
  • Strategy for sustainable development of rural territories

Organizers

Alfiya Kalmaganbetova

Forum Organizer

PhD Candidate, Vice-President of IFMS, President of Sport in Square World, author of 17 patented Sport in Square World methodologies, IAKS expert on play and sports spaces

Zhandos Zhumabay

Co-Organizer

Design-code architect, urbanist, expert in comprehensive territorial development. Head of the Public Foundation "CreAlmaty". Editor of the journal "Urban Code Almaty"

Aslan Kandygulov

Co-Organizer

Deputy Director of the Urbanism Center of Almaty, Head of the Public Foundation "Center for Sustainable Urban Environment"

Partners

Research Institute Almaty Genplan
IAKS Central Asia / SIS World
Public Foundation "CreAlmaty"
Eco-Construction Council of Uzbekistan (UzESC)
Almaty Urbanism Center
Satbayev University
Almaty Air Initiatives Foundation
Journal "Genius of Place"
Architectural and Landscape Bureaus of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

The city is not just a system of streets and buildings. It is an environment where humans interact with emotion, movement and meaning. When standards transform into culture, and space begins to speak to us in the language of play, the city becomes a living organism — feeling, developing and inspiring.

Alfiya Kalmaganbetova Author of the Sport in Square World project, President of SIS Academy,
Founder of MoveScape Central Asia Forum