On Cities
Norman Foster Foundation Public Debates Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies
On Cities
Norman Foster Foundation Public Debates Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies
On Cities | Autonomous Innovation Communities
We are living in an era of extreme urbanisation and rapid global warming. The challenges of both call for more than mere incremental adjustments. This workshop explores the premise that emerging urban innovations can dramatically reduce resources consumed by cities while simultaneously creating more livable, entrepreneurial communities. Can each community function autonomously by providing everything needed for daily living (housing, jobs, recreation, entertainment, learning) within a ten-minute walk—ending the commute and promoting a network of healthy, vibrant, creative districts? Can ultra-light autonomous mobility and drones eliminate all parking, signals and roads as we know them—enabling humans to recapture urban space from machines to privilege human interaction? Can each community (or building or apartment) locally produce all of the energy, food, and clean water needed for basic living—requiring no centralised infrastructure? Can humans transition from ownership to sharing, while living and working in compact, agile, supportive environments? Can real-time data, algorithmic incentives, and blockchainenabled token economies achieve equity and encourage pro-social behaviours—replacing static and unresponsive governmental regulations?
Kent Larson Workshop Mentor Norman Foster Foundation
Bloomberg Philanthropies is proud to support the Norman Foster Foundation. Bloomberg Philanthropies works in over 120 countries around the world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people. The organisation focuses on five key areas for creating lasting change: Arts, Education, Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health. Bloomberg Philanthropies encompasses all of Michael R. Bloomberg’s charitable activities, including his foundation, corporate and personal giving. The organisation’s government innovation programme works to promote public sector innovation and spread proven solutions among cities worldwide, and its arts initiatives utilise innovative partnerships and bold approaches to place arts at the centre of economic growth.
The Norman Foster Foundation Workshop On Cities is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies
Public Debates
Speakers
Norman Foster, President, Norman Foster Foundation
Kent Larson, Director of MIT Media Lab City Science Group and Initiative, Cambridge, United States
Beatriz Colomina, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Luis Cueto, General Coordinator for the Mayor in Madrid, Madrid City Hall, Madrid, Spain
Anupama Kundoo, Principal, Anupama Kundoo Architects, Madrid, Spain/Auroville, India
Winy Maas, Co-Founder and Director of MVRDV and Director of the Why Factory, Delft, the Netherlands
Tim Stonor, Managing Director of Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom
Belinda Tato and JosĂŠ Luis Vallejo, Founders and Directors of Ecosistema Urbano, Madrid, Spain/Miami, United States
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Schedule Tuesday 19th June 2019
6:00 p.m. On Cities Public Debates Lecture Hall, Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos On Cities: Governance Introduction by Kent Larson
Keynotes by Beatriz Colomina, José Luis Vallejo, Leonor Tarrasón and Luis Cueto
Debate between Beatriz Colomina, José Luis Vallejo, Leonor Tarrasón and Luis Cueto, moderated by Kent Larson On Cities: Transformations Introduction by Kent Larson
Keynotes by Winy Maas, Belinda Tato, Anupama Kundoo and Tim Stonor
Debate by Winy Maas, Belinda Tato, Anupama Kundoo and Tim Stonor, moderated by Kent Larson Wrap-up Dialogue between Norman Foster and Kent Larson
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Participants
Beatriz Colomina Beatriz Colomina is Founding Director of the interdisciplinary programme in Media and Modernity at Princeton University and Professor of History and Theory in the School of Architecture, as well as member of the Advisory Board of the Norman Foster Foundation. Her books include Are We Human: Notes on an Archaeology of Design (2016), The Century of the Bed (2015), Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies (2014), Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X (2010), Domesticity at War (2007), Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994), and Sexuality and Space (1992). Colomina has curated a number of exhibitions including Clip/Stamp/Fold (2006), Playboy Architecture (2012) and Radical Pedagogies (2014). She is curator with Mark Wigley of the third Istanbul Design Biennial (2016) and is currently working on a major project on the City of Social Media.
Luis Cueto Luis Cueto is the General Coordinator for the Mayor of Madrid. He has been Assistant Director General of Planning and Management of Human Resources of Social Security, for the Spanish Ministry of Labour (1991), General Assistant Director of Human Resources and Information Systems of Instituto Cervantes—Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2001), Head of Cabinet Secretariat for the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (2004–2006), EOI General Director of Business School for the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (2006) and Deputy General of Promoting Business Innovation for Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation (2010). Cueto is responsible for Binding Reports (IMV) on tax deductions for the R+D+i Programme for Innovative Public Procurement; management of the Network of Cities of Science and Innovation, and the seal of innovative SMEs. He has also been Director of the public entity Red.es and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI). 10
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Norman Foster Norman Foster is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Foster + Partners, a global studio for architecture, urbanism and design, rooted in sustainability. He has had a longstanding interest in the future of cities and the green agenda, leading major urban masterplans and infrastructural projects globally, such as Masdar City, a pioneering carbon-neutral sustainable development in the UAE. He championed sustainability in the 1970s with an eco-masterplan for Gomera, and has established an innovative approach to green buildings with projects such as Commerzbank (Frankfurt)—the world’s first ecological high-rise, Reichstag (Berlin) and recently, Bloomberg (London), the world’s most sustainable office building. He is President of the Norman Foster Foundation, promoting interdisciplinary thinking to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists anticipate the future. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999. In 1997, he was appointed to the Order of Merit and was granted a Life Peerage in 1999.
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Anupama Kundoo Anupama Kundoo graduated from University of Mumbai in 1989 and in 2008 obtained her PhD from TU Berlin. Kundoo’s architecture practice, started in 1990, demonstrates a strong focus on material research and experimentation towards an architecture that has low environmental impact and is appropriate to the socio-economic context. She has built extensively in India and has had the experience of working, researching and teaching in a variety of cultural contexts across the world in places such as TU Berlin, AA School of Architecture London, Parsons New School of Design New York, University of Queensland Brisbane, ETSAB Barcelona, Cornell University, UCJC Madrid and IE Madrid. She is currently Visiting Professor at Universität Stuttgart. She has actively assisted chief architect Roger Anger with the development of the city plan of Auroville, an international city-in-the-making in South India founded in 1968 as a prototype for future cities. She has contributed to several publications related to affording inclusive urbanisation in the age of climate change.
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Kent Larson Kent Larson, Architect, directs the MIT City Science Initiative, focused on developing urban interventions that create high-performance, entrepreneurial, liveable cities. Research includes ultra-light shared-use autonomous vehicles, transformable micro-housing for young professionals, and a tangible simulation platform (CitySCOPE) to predict human dynamics and urban performance. City Science living lab partners include Shanghai, Taipei, Hamburg, Helsinki, Toronto, and Andorra. Larson practised architecture for fifteen years in New York City before joining the MIT Media Lab. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture of the year by the New York Times Review of Books. He is a founder of ORI, a company focused on the commercialisation of architectural robotics, and Larson Living Labs, which provides design, technology, and community engagement consulting services for large-scale urban development projects.
Winy Maas Winy Maas, Prof. Ir. Ing. FRIBA HAIA, is one of the Co-Founding Directors of the globally operating architecture and urban planning firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and known for projects such as the Expo 2000 and the vision for greater Paris, Grand Paris Plus Petit. He is also professor at and director of the Why Factory, a research institute for the future city, he founded in 2008 at TU Delft. Since 2013 he is Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Before that, he was Professor at ETH Zurich, Berlage Institute, MIT, Ohio State and Yale University. Maas also designs stage sets and objects, and was curator of Indesem 2007. He curates exhibitions, and lectures throughout the world and takes part in international juries.
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Tim Stonor Tim Stonor is an architect and urban planner who has devoted his career to the analysis and design of human behaviour patterns—the ways in which people move, interact and transact in buildings and urban places. He is an internationally recognised expert in the design of spatial layouts and, in particular, the role of space in the generation of social, economic and environmental value. Tim is the Managing Director of Space Syntax, a company created at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL), in 1989 to develop and apply predictive design technologies. He is a Director of the Academy of Urbanism, a Visiting Professor at the Bartlett, UCL, a Harvard Loeb Fellow and Deputy Chair of the United Kingdom Design Council.
Ecosistema Urbano—Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo Ecosistema Urbano is a design and consulting company operating within the fields of urbanism, architecture, engineering and sociology, with offices in Madrid and Miami and an urban social design approach. Ecosistema Urbano understands the role of the design of environments, spaces and dynamics in improving the self-organisation of citizens, social interaction within communities and their relationship with the environment. They have used this philosophy to design and implement projects in Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, France and China. Ecosistema Urbano was co-founded in 2000 by architects Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo, who have been the directors since then. Founding partners Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo have led workshops, lectured and taught at the most prestigious institutions worldwide and have been professors at Harvard GSD since 2010.
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Credits
Supported by:
Collaborating Institutions Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos, Madrid, Spain American University of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Harvard Graduate School of Design University, Cambridge, United States The City Science Group and Initiative, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge, United States London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain Technische Universiteit, Delft, the Netherlands University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Tongji University, Shanghai, China Princeton University, Princeton, United States Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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