Nature and the City: Humanity as part of an entangled nature/culture
6th June 5pm 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College
A round table discussion on what needs to change now to create the sustainable city of the future. What if sustainability did not only address our choices of materials and designs for future cities but the whole notion of sustainable cultures themselves - to what it is to be 'human' not in the earth but as an entangled part of nature/culture? Human actions have placed us as powerful agents of change and dynamism living 'on top' of the earth . But what if in order to build equitable sustainability we needed to reimagine nature/cultures, spaces/places, materials/systems and what it is to be 'human' How would we do that?
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Prof Jennifer Schooling & Friends
Prof Jennifer Schooling (OBE). Jennifer is a Professor of Digital Innovation and Smart Places at Anglian Ruskin. She has had a varied career working in industry and academia including Chair of the Research Strategy Advisory Group for the Centre for Digital Built Britian, and the Director of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at the University of Cambridge. Her current research explores the sociotechnical aspects of digitalisation at the city scale, focussing on governance and ethical innovation to enable delivery of digital solutions for public value creation.
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Discussants include:
Janet Greenwood. KPMG UK LLP Director, Major Projects Advisory, Infrastructure Advisory Group
Margaret Kalaugher, former UN Women UK Delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Tutor, RCA. CoFounder of the Design Research Society's Design Ethics team
Jo Lucas, Director of Co.Cre8, Ecosytems through Knowledge, and mycelium activator
Dr Tim Jarvis, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing ARU. Novelist
Dr Annouchka Bayley, Chair of the Entangled Futures Festival, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge
Dr Sarah Royston, Senior Researcher Global Sustainability, ARU