{"id":12317,"date":"2016-03-28T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/urban\/?p=12317"},"modified":"2016-03-28T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:17:45","slug":"shaping-smart-cities-where-from-where-to-whats-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/urban\/2016\/03\/28\/shaping-smart-cities-where-from-where-to-whats-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPING SMART CITIES: WHERE FROM? WHERE TO? WHAT’S MISSING?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As participants in the process of urbanization we live our lives within and through three intersectional systems<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Human Social Systems:<\/i> 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?<\/p>\n

Urban Data Systems<\/i>: 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?<\/p>\n

Infrastructural Systems<\/i>: 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\u00a0 always be an economic, political, and societal will to sustain the circulatory systems of our cities?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Toward a realization of a better, \u2018Smarter\u2019 city, The School of Design Strategies, Master Card, CH2M,\u00a0and Meeting of the Minds presents this first of many conversations on the role of data and the \u2018Smart\u2019 city from the intersecting perspectives of three sectors, the public, the private, and the intermediary, each actively engaged and committed\u00a0to speaking cross sector to one another searching for the \u2018Smarter\u2019 city.<\/p>\n

A reception will follow this event in the lobby of the University Center<\/p>\n

Panelists<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jospeh Danko<\/a>:\u00a0CH2M HILL\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

William Morrish<\/a>:\u00a0architect, 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; \u201curbanizing ecologies\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bernard Mors<\/a>:\u00a0VP, MasterCard Worldwide Communications
\nBernhard joined MasterCard\u2019s Worldwide Communications team in March 2012 after 5 years at the company\u2019s European headquarters in Waterloo \/ Belgium, where he was responsible for the award-winning \u201cOne Month Without Cash\u201d campaign and other strategic initiatives. In his current role, Bernhard is driving MasterCard\u2019s corporate and digital initiatives. In his free time, Bernhard loves to explore New York and Connecticut with his young family.<\/p>\n

Moderator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gordon Feller<\/a>:\u00a0Co-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\u2019s programs focused on cities.\u00a0He now serves as a consultant at Cisco\u2019s global headquarters in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

Ap\u00e9ritif<\/strong><\/p>\n