Seminar Presentation: ‘Resilient Cities, Smart Citizens’

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Resilient Cities, Smart Citizen A five-day workshop followed by a one-day seminar about enabling citizens to make their cities more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges of the 21st century.

How can cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century? How can we enable citizens to be at the center of the solutions? What can design and creativity bring to the table? And how can city governments find new ways to collaborate with these new actors? Can we facilitate a new economic model that helps to foster digital social innovation and entrepreneurship?

During the Dutch presidency of the EU the Dutch consulate in Rio de Janeiro and the Rio Prefeitura have taken the initiative to bring together designers, civil servants, citizens and entrepreneurs for a week-long design workshop (9-13 May) followed by a one-day seminar (16 May). They will prototype new design and approaches to transforming cities, by using and enhancing the power of its citizens to take positive action.

Participation is free, but on invitation. For more information on the program, and to apply for an invitation go to http://resilientcities.com.br

WHEN
Monday, 9 May 2016 at 09:00 – Monday, 16 May 2016 at 21:00 (BRT) – Add to Calendar
WHERE
IED Rio – 13 Avenida João Luís Alves, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22291090 – View Map

The program

09:15 Welcome word by the Dutch Consul-General Arjen Uijterlinde and the Dutch Ambassador, Mr Han Peters.
09:30 Mrs Claudia Gintersdorfer, Deputy Head of Delegation of the EU to Brazil

09:40 Pedro Junqueira, Chief Executive for Resilience and Operations, Center of Operations Rio de Janeiro.

09:50 Introduction ‘Policies’ by Frank Kresin, Research Director, Waag Society (moderator)
10:00 Pedro Junqueira, Chief Executive for Resilience and Operations, Center of Operations Rio de Janeiro.
10:20 Tina Billeter, Sustainability consultant and member of the Environmental and Health Protection Service of the City of Zurich, Switzerland (CH)
10:35 Catarina Selada, Head of Cities Department, INTELI Innovation Centre
10:40 Q&A moderated by Frank Kresin
11:00 break

11:30 Introduction ‘Resilient Cities’ by Luciana Nery, Deputy Chief Resilience Officer, Center of Operations Rio de Janeiro (moderator)
11:45 Ricardo Ruiz, project coordinator at INCITI – Research and Innovation for Cities / Federal University of Pernambuco
12:00 Clarisse Linke, Country Director, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy Brasil
12:15 Marco Contardi, Strategic Advisor FGV Projetos (BR)
12:30 Q&A moderated by Luciana Nery
13:00 Lunch

14:30 Introduction ‘Smart Citizens’ by Pieter Boheemen, Director Waag Labs (moderator)
14:45 Gabriela Augustini, Founder and Director, Olabi Makerspace
15:00 Chloe Dickson, Co-Founder Bemap
15:15 Ronaldo Lemos, Founder and Director, ITS Rio
15:30 Q&A moderated by Pieter van Boheemen
16:15 Break

16:45 Introduction ‘Visionaries’ by Fabio Palma, Director, Istituto Europeo di Design (moderator)
17:00 Frank Kresin, Research Director, Waag Society
17:20 Luisa Santiago, Managing Director, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
17:40 Eva Gladek, Founder and CEO, Metabolic
18:00 Q&A moderated by Fabio Palma

18:45 Thank you/Wrap up Arjen Uijterlinde
19:00 Networking drinksI have cc’d all of you in this email as I can imagine that it could be useful to plan a quick group-chat per ‘subtheme’ to prepare and coordinate the contents of your presentations.

Materials
The seminar will take place at the beautifully renovated building of IED. IED has kindly offered the seminar room and the technical facilities, including

  • a projection set, format 4:3
  • a Windows presentation laptop (if you’d rather bring your own laptop, please do let us know. In case of a Mac, please do also bring your own adaptors for projection).
  • an audioset with microphones

Please send me your presentation materials (Powerpoint or Keynote preferably) on 11 May latest. If you use video, also send me that as a separate file.

Language
We will provide for a simultaneous translation. However, as you (and our audience) come from several parts in the world, and the Q&A will be in a panel-format, using the English language would be highly preferred as presentation language.

Press, photos and videos
The Dutch Consulate has actively invited members of the press. Please be aware that journalists might be present in the audience.

In addition we will be recording some of the talks and making photographs during the day. Please indicate specifically if you consent with video or photo materials of yourself or your presentations to be used in public channels (either online or in traditional media).

Practical
The IED Rio is located in the wonderfully renovated old casino at Av. João Luís Alves, 13 – Urca, Rio de Janeiro
For the speakers that come from outside of Rio de Janeiro/Brasil, we will arrange transportation to the venue (exact information on transportation will follow next week). I would like to request speakers from within Rio de Janeiro, to arrive at least 30 minutes before ‘their’ sub-theme starts.