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The Future City: Emergence of a New Science

The Future City: Emergence of a New Science 2016 Annual Symposium of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning

Thursday, May 5 / UW Intellectual House, 9:00 AM—4:00 PM

Future City Poster Session Reception 4:30-6:00 Gould Pavilion Gallery

Please RSVP by Thursday April 28, (lunch is provided)

UW TODAY STORY

What drives urban evolution? Are there underlying mechanisms and universal laws of urban change? What are the scenarios of plausible urban futures? What do we know, and what do we not know? How can big data and new technologies transform the sciences, decision-making, and the practice? What are the emerging challenges for future research? What kinds of cities do we want to live in? How can communities imagine and direct urban change to create the cities we desire?

Structure

The symposium will start this exploration by bringing together faculty and students from diverse disciplines in one-day event structured in two sessions led by two keynote speakers and followed by two panels. The morning session will discuss what we know of the drivers of urban change and underlying mechanisms leading innovation and elaborate the challenges and opportunities for the study of cities. In the afternoon session we will explore plausible urban futures and the implications for graduate education and the practices. A poster session (during lunch) led by the students from different UW PhD Programs will feature research on urban issues from different disciplines.

Keynote Speakers

Luis Bettencourt is a theoretical physicist and professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He studies the city as a complex system with an emphasis on identifying underling laws that drive innovation and urban change as well as the role of social networks within these urban systems.

Carlo Ratti is an architect and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab which explores urban imagination and social innovation through design & science.

Panel Discussions Panel 1 (morning)-‐ What are the drivers of urban change?

Sara Curran: Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs, Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, UW

Kyle Crowder: Blumstein-‐Jordan Endowed Professor, Department of Sociology, UW

Jessica A. Lee: Senior Policy Associate and Associate Fellow, BROOKINGS, Centennial Scholar Initiative

Jan Whittington: Associate Professor, Urban Design and Planning, Associate Director, Center for information Assurance and Cyber Security, UW

Panel 2 (afternoon)-‐ What are scenarios of possible urban futures? Mark Hallenbeck: Director, Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC)

Eileen Gunn: Science Fiction Writer

Jesse Berst: Chairman, Smart Cities Council

Lara Whitely Binder: Outreach Specialist, Climate Impacts Group, UW

Resilience and Asian Urbanism | A Collaborative Workshop

This joint workshop between the Center for Asian Urbanism and the UW faculty cluster for Resilience in the Built Environment highlights the UW’s capacities to apply cultural context-specific expertise to problems of urbanization across the Pacific. Preceding the 75th Anniversary conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Seattle (March 31-April 3, 2016), the UW Workshop on Resilience and Asian Urbanism gathers a unique group of leading scholar-professional-activists to inspire and facilitate creative and fundable long-term partnerships in both research and action. Cases and discussions of indigeneity and place-based resilience, water-sensitive urbanization, and new urban-rural relations will highlight the mutual relevance of expertise in global-area studies and the professional built-environmental disciplines; explore the potential for border-crossing applications of experience; and suggest new linkages within the university.

Sponsored by the UW College of Built Environments Dean’s faculty cluster funding for Asian Urbanism and Resilience in the Built Environment; the UW Jackson School of International Studies and East Asia Center; and the Confucius Institute of Washington.

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Sustainable City Year

A group of UW faculty is considering a university-community applied research and teaching program called Sustainable City Year. It originated at the U of Oregon and now many universities, including WWU, are running similar programs. The program pairs a city and a university with a budget of $200-300K each year paid by the partner city. The university then utilizes multiple classes across the university to serve and advise the city.

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UW aids city of Seattle on open data initiative

If people find it easier to get data from the city of Seattle going forward, they can in part thank the University of Washington.

A team of UW faculty members and doctoral students spent the past six months working with the city on a new open data policy unveiled last week by Mayor Ed Murray. The policy requires all city departments to make their data as accessible as possible to the public while upholding privacy and security considerations.

The UW team conducted focus groups to hear about the public’s wishes and concerns, assessed the city’s existing datasets and vendor agreements for security vulnerabilities, and held in-depth interviews with officials in eight city departments to identify their data processes.
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Dr. Han Seung-soo| Lecture on Climate change

On February 11 Dr. Han Seung-soo spoke at Architecture Hall on the effects of climate change.

Dr. Han Seung-soo is a globally prominent figure who retains extensive experience and knowledge in the fields of international relations, economics and foreign affairs. He is highly respected as a national mentor in recognition of his contribution to the Republic of Korea and to the world.

He served as Prime Minister of Republic of Korea (2008-09) and is currently UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Disaster Risk Reduction and Water (2013-). He was President of the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (2001-02), Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2001-02), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy (1996-97), Chief of Staff to the President (1994-95), Korean Ambassador to the United States (1993-94) and Minister of Trade and Industry (1988-90).
Also, he is a renowned scholar, educated at Yonsei University(BA), Seoul National University(MPA) and the University of York, England(Ph.D.1968/D.Univ.1997), and prior to his entry into politics in 1988, he had a distinguished academic career as Professor of Economics at Seoul National University (1970-88), taught economics and/or did research at the Universities of York (1965-68), Cambridge(Emmanuel College) (1968-70), Harvard (1985-86) and Tokyo (1986-87), and GRIPS (2004-06), and has honorary degrees from the Universities of York, Gangwon National, Yonsei, KAIST and Kuala Lumpur.

The event will be held in Architecture Hall Auditorium 147. The maximum seating is limited to 300