Marvin Bratke, German architect, entrepreneur, and founding partner of spatial innovation studio URBAN BETA (www.urban-beta.de) and the architecture office BART//BRATKE (www.bartbratke.com) will be giving a lecture at the Computational Design: NEXT 5.0 conference.At his studio, Marvin uses participatory methods to create inclusive, unconventional, and transformative spaces through predictive planning. He collaborates on new ways of social inclusion and participatory approaches to co-design, both virtual and physical. Urban Beta’s work aims to enable greater democratization of technology for construction and architecture, focussing on a positive social and ecological footprint.He combines academia with applied research to integrate emerging technologies, innovation, computational models, and predictive planning into one combined, holistic approach. His studio’s research is backed by the Federal Government of Germany, covered by the “Zukunft Bau” (Future Construction) program of the Federal Ministry of Interior Building and Community. The research project BetaHood became a model project to promote the start of the “New European Bauhaus” initiative.