As participants in the process of urbanization we live our lives within and through three intersectional systems

Human Social Systems: As human connectivity grows in intensity almost hourly, simultaneously our weak ties are being constantly strained due to the shifting city below us how can we ensure that our cities remain human centered?

Urban Data Systems: As we grow our capacity to generate, collect, and analyze urban data, how can we keep this information legible, accessible, and utilitarian, serving those from whom we collect it?

Infrastructural Systems: Often the concrete life support systems of our urban society, infrastructure protects life, and maintains the value of the lives of citizens everywhere. Whether by moving resources like water, waste, and people; how can we insure that there will  always be an economic, political, and societal will to sustain the circulatory systems of our cities?

Each of these systems demand our time through participation, financial commitment, and ethical consideration; each is worthy of our attention, engagement, and generative conversation; all of them are realized across a multitude of scales and dimensions, capable of working together to make our lived experience in cities better or worse.

Toward a realization of a better, ‘Smarter’ city, The School of Design Strategies, Master Card, CH2M, and Meeting of the Minds presents this first of many conversations on the role of data and the ‘Smart’ city from the intersecting perspectives of three sectors, the public, the private, and the intermediary, each actively engaged and committed to speaking cross sector to one another searching for the ‘Smarter’ city.

A reception will follow this event in the lobby of the University Center

Panelists

Jospeh Danko: CH2M HILL’s Managing Director of Urban Programs and brings more than 25 years of experience to his role. He oversees urban development programs and strategic master planning for cities and communities around the world.

William Morrish: architect, urban designer and Professor of Urban Ecologies at Parsons The New School of Design in New York City. Collaborating with a network of interdisciplinary city actors, he has been leading an effort to revaluate urban policy and design practices in order to construct the next generation infrastructure that he calls; “urbanizing ecologies”.

Bernard Mors: VP, MasterCard Worldwide Communications
Bernhard joined MasterCard’s Worldwide Communications team in March 2012 after 5 years at the company’s European headquarters in Waterloo / Belgium, where he was responsible for the award-winning “One Month Without Cash” campaign and other strategic initiatives. In his current role, Bernhard is driving MasterCard’s corporate and digital initiatives. In his free time, Bernhard loves to explore New York and Connecticut with his young family.

Moderator

Gordon Feller: Co-founder/Convenor of Meeting of the Minds, an annual leadership summit organized since 2007 by Urban Age Institute (UAI). Feller was for more than five years Director at Cisco Systems headquarters in Silicon Valley. He served in an executive capacity within the company’s programs focused on cities. He now serves as a consultant at Cisco’s global headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Apéritif

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM (EDT)

University Center Star Foundation Hall Room L102
63 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10003

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