THE FUTURES EDGE FOR CITIES: A 20-YEAR VIEW A CURATED ENCOUNTER
FORD FOUNDATION, NYC.
The cities of the next decade will be the testing ground for the grandest human experiments—in biology, in social physics, and in public imagination. There are stories lurking just below the surface of our cities that can help us sense our future directions - Biofutures in Cities:
Eri Gentry, Research Manager, Institute for the Future
Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture, University of Newcastle
Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography, Gastropod, The New Yorker
Mitchell Joachim, Co-Founder, Terreform ONE
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Primatologist
Rachel Hatch, Research Director, Institute for the Future
Paola Antonelli, Curator MoMA
Presented by the Urban Democracy Lab with funding from NYU’s Global
Initiative for Advanced Studies. Co-sponsored by Global Design NYU.
All day event with moderators: Mitchell Joachim and Louise Harpman.
Our future lies in cities, and everyone agrees that our cities need to
be greener and more sustainable. Most examinations of green urbanism
focus on projects in urban centers, but another key aspect of
urbanization is suburban development occurring outside the central city areas. In this public conversation, Roger Keil, professor of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, and Julie Sze,
professor and Director of American Studies at University of California,
Davis, discuss where global suburbanism and urban environmentalism
intersect and help us imagine how a democratic political space can
emerge from this moment of possibility.
Robert Colangelo is founder and host of the nationally syndicated Green Sense Radio show. Recorded live on the Farm, Green Sense Radio features entrepreneurs, innovators, academics, and policy makers who are making the world a better place.
Guest appearance by Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE.
http://greensensefarms.com/green-sense-radio/
The furniture of the
future could be grown instead of built, saving on resources. This is a
fascinating design concept from Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Associate
Professor at NYU and co-founder of the non-profit Terreform ONE.
