Future Cities Workshop: "What makes a successful city?"
A workshop on what makes a successful city will take place as part of Engage with Strathclyde week on Friday May 8. The multidisciplinary workshop brings together key internal and external speakers from all areas of the Future Cities theme to discuss what really makes a successful city?
Speakers include David Page, partner of Page\Park architects, Scott Cain from the Future Cities Catapult and Ross Hunter, Director of Graven Images.
The event will take place in TIC, Level 3 CR 6/7 from 10am to 4pm.
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TEDX event
Helen Kendrick, Programme Manager for the Institute for Future Cities will be speaking about the Institute's new City Observatory project at Strathclyde's TEDx conference on April 25.
Her talk will look at how the Observatory will enable the city (not just Glasgow but cities across the world) to be used as a Living Lab. The overall theme for this year's event is 'Pushing Boundaries' and the 10 speakers (including Strathclyde staff, students and those from the wider world) will be talking about a wide range of issues related to this theme.
Tickets are via a ballot and can be applied for here.
Designing Smart Cities conference at TIC
Glasgow, and many other cities around the world, are part of the new phenomenon of "smart cities" - the notion of creating innovative services, applications and delivery platforms by integrating public and private data sets at a citywide level.
Glasgow was awarded £24m in 2012 to run a prototype projects based around smart transport, energy, policing and health to demonstrate how ubiquitous computing might enhance societal, economic and environmental well-being.
This conference, "Designing Smart Cities: Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges" hosted by Strathclyde and chaired by Professor Lilian Edwards, will focus on how contemporary urban life is increasingly marked and shaped by technology, and critically assess what this means for existing societal norms and regulatory structures.
While the engineering and architecture worlds are already excited by smart cities, attention from a societal perspective is newer. What are the possibilities of "smart" urban environments for new creative opportunities?
Themes include:
The conference takes place on March 31 and April 1 in TIC.