(Mmm.. this should be interesting..)
Over the next few decades, the world is preparing to build more urban fabric than has been built by humanity ever before. At the same time, new technologies are disrupting the traditional principles of city making and urban living. This new condition necessitates the creation of innovative partnerships between government, academia, and industry to meet tomorrow’s challenges– including higher sustainability, better use of resources and infrastructure, and improved equity and quality of life.
The Forum on Future Cities will bring together leading thinkers in academia, industry and government from around the world to discuss the most pressing issues of urbanization, and explore how they are being impacted by a wave of new distributed technologies. The program will run over 12- 13th April, 2011 at MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Forum is hosted by MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and the Rockefeller Foundation, and will also be held in conjunction with some other key celebrations for our Institute’s 150th anniversary and with the SENSEable City Lab Annual Consortium Meeting.
Forum on Future Cities hosted by the MIT SENSEable City Lab and the Rockefeller Foundation 12-13th April 2011 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts.