https://regenerate.mit.edu LCAU | Regenerate Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:53:26 +0000 https://regenerate.mit.edu en https://regenerate.mit.edu/Main-1 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:45:30 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Main-1 CONFERENCE︎ABOUT ︎SCHEDULE ︎SPEAKERS︎REGISTER ︎VIDEOS+PHOTOS&nbsp; &nbsp;REGENERATE&nbsp; A Critical Intersection of AI, Urbanism, and Climate Change 11. 16. 23 — 11. 17. 23 &nbsp; <img width="455" height="339" width_o="455" height_o="339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2dba9de32c2880da82d8d5139133aa5f8cb34247011846be39eda25ba54bc25/Logo_LCAU-W-WordMark3.png" data-mid="193305623" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/455/i/f2dba9de32c2880da82d8d5139133aa5f8cb34247011846be39eda25ba54bc25/Logo_LCAU-W-WordMark3.png" /> <img width="1500" height="426" width_o="1500" height_o="426" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c88b96cd5c62e50b3e8226569d909de0d2d8a36752c5d55ab15ff4a506395d5/mit-sap-logo.jpg" data-mid="193299401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c88b96cd5c62e50b3e8226569d909de0d2d8a36752c5d55ab15ff4a506395d5/mit-sap-logo.jpg" /> Thursday &nbsp;11. 16. 23&nbsp; Registration 1:30pm Registration Opens Media Lab 1st Floor Lobby LCAU@102:30pm Opening Remarks&nbsp; Sarah Williams Director, Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) Hashim Sarkis Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Visioning the Future2:35pm Urbanism constitutes one of the most complex societal challenges of today’s world. MIT's Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) is motivated by the radical changes in our urbanizing environment, and focuses on the design and planning of large-scale, complex, metropolitan environments. LCAU’s founders created a model of interdisciplinary research that crossed boundaries needed to generate radical ideas on Urbanism today and in the future – learn how they created that vision. Adèle Naudé SantosProfessor and Former Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Alan Leventhal United States Ambassador to Denmark Comments from the&nbsp;Leventhal Family, from Alexander Leventhal&nbsp; Advancing Urbanism2:55pm Over the last ten years, the LCAU has centered its research agenda on Infrastructure, Suburbs, Housing, Equitable Resilience, and Digital Urbanism. These foci have advanced urbanism, adopted by practice and research influenced places worldwide. Learn how the LCAU model of civic debate, design research, and innovation catalyzes urbanists to innovate today and in the future. Alan Berger Adèle Naudé Santos James Wescoat Sarah Williams Catalyzing Innovation4:00pm The Norman B. Leventhal City Prize is a new interdisciplinary prize aimed at catalyzing innovative urban design and planning approaches worldwide to improve the environment and quality of life. It was established in honor of Norman B. Leventhal, the visionary developer and philanthropist whose contributions transformed Boston's urban landscape. The inaugural winner, Malden Works, will discuss the transformation of the city's Department of Public Works (DPW) site on the Malden River into a civic waterfront space recently awarded 2.9 million from the Massachusetts Department of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Drawing Together, the City Prize winner in 2022, will discuss the impact they have already made in just the last year. The winning team represents a collaboration between MIT faculty, researchers, and students and Green City Force (GCF), a nonprofit organization in New York City that trains young people for careers with a sustainability focus while they serve local public housing communities. Marie Adams Kathleen Mead Vandiver Marcia Manong&nbsp; Alan Berger&nbsp; Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga Nicholas de Monchaux Tonya Gayle Decarbonizing Costa Rica Keynote 5:00pm Costa Rica, grounded in a legacy of peace, education, and environmental responsibility, has fearlessly led the way in decarbonization, achieving substantial economic and environmental progress despite initial skepticism. It is our distinct privilege to welcome former Costa Rican President (2018-2022), Carlos Alvarado-Quesada, who will share profound insights into this transformative journey. His talk will navigate the intricate challenges faced by the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean at this pivotal juncture in working towards decarbonizing our cities, underscoring the critical necessity of a just energy transition and diversified economies amidst a backdrop of polarized politics and rapidly evolving policy landscapes. Join us for an exploration of sustainability, political dynamics, and multifaceted regional considerations around Climate Change. Carlos Alvarado Quesada Former President of Costa Ricain conversation with Chris Zegras Reception&nbsp;6:10pm Cocktail Reception Media Lab 6th Floor Wintergarden Friday &nbsp;11. 17. 23&nbsp; Breakfast and Registration8:35am&nbsp; Registration Continues: Media Lab 1st Floor Lobby Breakfast: Media Lab 6th Floor Wintergarden Regenerate Urbanism9:30am Sarah WilliamsDirector, Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) Mark P Gorenberg Chair, MIT Corporation Urbanizing Artificial Intelligence: Humans in the Loop Panel 19:40am Openly available generative AI and algorithmic models have increased exponentially in the last decade, and these tools have already become embedded in our daily lives. City governments, urban designers, and planners are increasingly grappling with how to use them to design resilient urban futures. This panel will critically explore artificial intelligence in the design of urban environments. We seek to understand the next frontier for AI in urbanism, and the agency of humans in these new generative futures. We seek to understand how human intelligence interfaces with artificial intelligence. Can urban designers create a dialogue with technology that allows for innovation in the urban environment? How can we ensure that this dialogue incorporates diverse ways of understanding and interacting with our environment? How do we teach the next generation of designers to work with new forms of technology?&nbsp; Speakers: Laura Narvaez Zertuche Santiago Garces Dietmar Offenhuber Mashinka Firunts Hakopian Moderator: Rafi Segal Global Climate Realities Panel 2 11:30am The cause and effect of our climate crisis are not felt equally globally, with some countries already suffering severe impacts from climate change. In contrast, others continue to ignore the impending realities. This panel delves into the experiences of countries already grappling with severe consequences due to climate change. It explores their technological adaptations, innovative urban design solutions, and challenges in creating sustainable urban futures amid shifting environments and populations.&nbsp;Speakers: Gloria Visconti&nbsp; Radhika Radhakrishnan&nbsp; Aklilu Fikresilassie Moderator: Claudia Dobles Camargo Lunch 12:30pm&nbsp; Media Lab 6th Floor Wintergarden Climate Infrastructure: Energy, Energy, Energy Panel 3 1:35pm Transforming our energy systems is one of the greatest challenges cities face as we strive for a net zero future. Nearly a quarter of human-generated GHG emissions each year come from our energy systems. To mitigate these emissions the design of energy systems must be addressed. This means redesigning the electric grid, transportation, industry and building and land use related emissions. This panel will examine how artificial intelligence and technology more broadly can be deployed in the design and planning of urban energy transformations. What are the biggest challenges for decarbonization of infrastructure and energy systems? How does the United States Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Bill provide assistance for cities seeking to transform their energy infrastructure. What are the urban design opportunities created through the transformation of our energy grid? Speakers: Erin Mayfield&nbsp; Kate Gordon Steven Caputo Donnel Baird Caroline Golin Moderator: Elisabeth Beck Reynolds Just Climate Futures Panel 4 3:10pm Climate Change AI, Sustainable AI, and Environmental Justice AI are all terms used to describe how artificial intelligence can be applied to analyze, predict, and model issues revolving around climate change. However, each of these terms has its own weakness. For example, how can we use AI to address sustainability when AI systems use exponential amounts of energy resources and are inherently unsustainable? How can we apply AI towards environmental justice when we often do not know the biases inherent in the data used to train these systems? In this panel, we seek to understand what forms of knowledge are missing for AI systems that could help or hinder the development of technology toward creating a Just Climate Future. We seek to understand the ways in which our models can include different forms of knowledge? How can we understand the ways in which these technologies can help to create more environmentally just cities? Speakers: Theodora Dryer Sara Beery Tawanna Dillahunt Moderator: Catherine D’Ignazio Planet City and the Return of Global Wilderness Keynote 5:00pm Following centuries of colonization, globalization and never-ending economic extraction we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. In the storytelling performance ‘Planet City and the Return of Global Wilderness’ we go on a science fiction safari through an imaginary city for the entire population of the earth, where 10 billion people surrender the rest of the world to a global scaled wilderness and the return of stolen lands. Set against the consistent failure of nation states to act in any meaningful way against climate change, Planet City emerges from a global citizen consensus, a voluntary and multi-generational retreat from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis. Liam Young Film Director and Architect in conversation with Nicholas de Monchaux Reception 6:10pm Cocktail ReceptionMedia Lab 6th Floor Wintergarden ©LCAU 2023 Instagram&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; X &nbsp; Accessibility https://regenerate.mit.edu/Speaker-Header Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:38:16 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Speaker-Header <img width="541" height="190" width_o="541" height_o="190" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f7dd7ca41a1e6f2b2f5476044fd2181081c5ae6aeb4909536f7670a748974dc/regenerate.PNG" data-mid="193526759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/541/i/6f7dd7ca41a1e6f2b2f5476044fd2181081c5ae6aeb4909536f7670a748974dc/regenerate.PNG" /> CONFERENCE ︎ABOUT ︎SCHEDULE ︎SPEAKERS︎REGISTER ︎VIDEOS+PHOTOS https://regenerate.mit.edu/Filter-Panel Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:38:17 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Filter-Panel SPEAKERS SHOW:&nbsp; All&nbsp; | &nbsp;Keynotes | Leadership | Leventhal Cities Prize |&nbsp; Panel 1&nbsp; |&nbsp; Panel 2&nbsp; |&nbsp; Panel 3&nbsp; |&nbsp; Panel 4 https://regenerate.mit.edu/Keynotes-nav Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:53:26 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Keynotes-nav KeynotesAll Speakers https://regenerate.mit.edu/Carlos-Alvaredo Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:38:19 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Carlos-Alvaredo Carlos Alvarado Quesada Former President of Costa Rica Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada is a Costa Rican politician, writer, journalist, and political scientist who served as the 48th president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. A member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC), Alvarado previously served as Minister of Labor and Social Security during the presidency of Luis Guillermo Solís. Alvarado holds a bachelor's degree in communications and a master's degree in political science from the University of Costa Rica. He was a Chevening Scholar from 2008 to 2009, earning a master's degree in development studies from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Falmer, England. Keynote Lecture <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e5499e08ee13885d99e366fa3945c6a869234fe6404e1af8c29fc8f7e696aa9/Carlos_Alvarado_portrait.jpg" data-mid="194120724" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/3e5499e08ee13885d99e366fa3945c6a869234fe6404e1af8c29fc8f7e696aa9/Carlos_Alvarado_portrait.jpg" /> https://regenerate.mit.edu/Liam-Young Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:38:22 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Liam-Young Liam Young Film Director and Architect Liam Young is a designer, director and BAFTA nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. Described by the BBC as ‘the man designing our futures’, his visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today. As a worldbuilder he visualizes the cities, spaces and props of our imaginary futures for the film and television industry and with his own films he has premiered with platforms ranging from Channel 4, Apple+, SxSW, Tribeca, the New York Metropolitan Museum, The Royal Academy, Venice Biennale, the BBC and the Guardian. Keynote Lecture <img width="1625" height="1625" width_o="1625" height_o="1625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9097eb582336a32db10149bc2659687de97027d5b35c262275875d73b5d3b69b/liam-young.jpg" data-mid="194117811" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9097eb582336a32db10149bc2659687de97027d5b35c262275875d73b5d3b69b/liam-young.jpg" /> https://regenerate.mit.edu/Panel-1-nav Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:46:09 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Panel-1-nav Panel 1 All Speakers https://regenerate.mit.edu/Laura-Zertuche Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:38:26 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Laura-Zertuche Laura Narvaez Zertuche Partner, Urban Design at Foster + Partners Dr. Laura Narvaez Zertuche is a Partner in the Urban Design team at Foster + Partners, where she has lead people movement and data analytics within the firm since 2015. Her work incorporates evidence-based and research-led design that combines informed decision-making with simulation-powered design tools and strategic development of methodologies with their application to architecture and urban design. Laura is a Lecturer at the Chair of Cognitive Science in ETH Zurich and is an advisor for an international multi-disciplinary think-tank called Urban AI, investigating the sustainable uses of artificial intelligence in cities. She gained a MSc and PhD from the Space Syntax Laboratory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Panel 1 Urbanizing Artificial Intelligence <img width="1128" height="1128" width_o="1128" height_o="1128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeda218b733c48c43fc398d51f379afeaf746e9bcd1e4deec4003f890d381189/LauraNarvaez.jpg" data-mid="194117975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eeda218b733c48c43fc398d51f379afeaf746e9bcd1e4deec4003f890d381189/LauraNarvaez.jpg" /> https://regenerate.mit.edu/Santiago-Garces Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:38:29 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Santiago-Garces Santiago Garces Chief Information Officer City of Boston Santiago "Santi" Garces, currently the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Boston, has built a career on making government systems more efficient and citizen-centric, leveraging his early experiences in Bogotá, Colombia. Leading Boston's Department of Innovation and Technology, he fosters transformative technology and innovation. Santi's previous roles include impactful tech leadership positions in South Bend and Pittsburgh, where he enacted significant technological and developmental projects. A co-founder of the nonprofit enFocus, and recognized for his innovative contributions to civic tech, Santi combines data science, human-centered design, and a multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary background to drive urban transformation. Panel 1 Urbanizing Artificial Intelligence <img width="1290" height="1290" width_o="1290" height_o="1290" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb6aee24d683121a9629ebe43e1bcd0f9d12ae9086fbc63d5bb8d4fc7fe5f135/Santiago-Garces.jpg" data-mid="194118064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb6aee24d683121a9629ebe43e1bcd0f9d12ae9086fbc63d5bb8d4fc7fe5f135/Santiago-Garces.jpg" /> https://regenerate.mit.edu/Dietmar-Offenhuber Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:38:32 +0000 LCAU | Regenerate https://regenerate.mit.edu/Dietmar-Offenhuber Dietmar Offenhuber Associate Professor, Department Chair of Art + Design and Public Policy Northeastern University Dietmar Offenhuber is Associate Professor and Chair of Art+Design at Northeastern University in the areas of information design and urban affairs. He holds a PhD in Urban Planning from MIT. His research focuses on the relationship between design, technology, and urban governance. Dietmar is the author of the award-winning monograph “Waste is Information - Infrastructure Legibility and Governance” (MIT Press) and has published books on urban data and accountability technologies. His upcoming book “Autographic Design - The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World” considers material forms of visualization and evidence construction. Panel 1 Urbanizing Artificial Intelligence <img width="555" height="532" width_o="555" height_o="532" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55f97bb399240e1f6c36b1955f7f67eacaa650b883e84384901db52f0ceb115d/dietmar_offhenhuber.jpg" data-mid="193286799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/555/i/55f97bb399240e1f6c36b1955f7f67eacaa650b883e84384901db52f0ceb115d/dietmar_offhenhuber.jpg" />