The Forum of Urban Design is organizing DIVERGENCE/CONVERGENCE a forum for urban designers. With the participation of: AIA New York Chapter – Center For Architecture and sponsored by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
DIVERGENCE: The creative economy is more important than ever to New York’s status as a global city, yet creative workers and culture producers are struggling to live and work in NYC.
Meanwhile, London not only continues to challenge New York’s financial preeminence, but is proactively addressing the problems that its creative workers face.
Should New York formally convene stakeholders of the creative economy the way London has to come up with proposals before the city loses its edge? Or is the city’s creative team doing just fine?
MAY 12, 6:00 PM – NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART – 235 BOWERY, NEW YORK, NY 10002
COCKTAILS 6:00 PM – PANEL 6:30 PM – FOLLOWED BY PARTY
Moderator: Joseph Grima, director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture
PANELISTS:
- Elizabeth Currid, professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Policy, Planning and Development and author of The Warhol Economy:How Fashion, Music and Art Drive New York City (Princeton University Press)
- James Surowiecki, New Yorker Financial Page columnist, favorably reviewed The Warhol Economy and disagreed with some of Currid’s conclusions and recommendations
- Francis Greenburger, chairman and CEO of Time Equities, supporter of emerging artists through scholarships and by providing lobby space for art exhibits in commercial buildings
- Paul Owens, co-director and founder of BOP, a consulting firm in London focusing on culture and creative industries and urban economic and social development.
Entrance: Free
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INTERSECTION: How To Get Your Project/Idea/Plan/Firm/
Development covered by the media: Case studies and discussion, from inception to coverage, the anatomy of a good story and how to tell it.
MAY 13, 2:00 PM – CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE – 536 LAGUARDIA PL. – NEW YORK, NY 10012
Panelists:
- Robin Pogrebin, architecture reporter for the New York Times
- Elizabeth Kubany, public relations consultant for SOM, Brad Cloepfil, and others
- Andrew Blum, architecture and design writer for Metropolis and Wired magazines
- Heidi Druckemiller, in-house communications director for Asymptote
- Lockhart Steele, publisher of the real estate website Curbed
Two AIA/CES credits $20
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CONVERGENCE: Urban design meets sustainability, adding a new layer of complexity to the collaborative process of (re)development.
Who is the client? Who is in charge? Can collaboration survive?
MAY 13, 5:00 PM – EMBASSY SUITES NEW YORK – 102 NORTH END AVENUE – NEW YORK, NY 10282
KEYNOTE PANEL 5:30 PM – RECEPTION 6:45 PM – DINNER AND DISCUSSION 7:45 PM
Moderator :
Alexandros Washburn, chief of urban design for the City of New York, principal of W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and founding president of the Pennsylvania Station Redevelopment Corp. (now Moynihan station)
Panelists:
- Alejandro Zaera-Polo, principal of Foreign Office Architects in London, which recently pulled out of the design team for the London Olympics and is working on collaborative projects large and small around the world
- Neil Denari, formerly of SCI-Arc, will erect his first building – HL23, subject of an upcoming exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York – adjacent to one of the most successful urban collaborative efforts in NYC history, the High Line
- Nikos Salingaros, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Texas, collaborator with Christopher Alexander and author of “Principals of Urban Structure” critical of most large-scale urban redevelopment projects for failing to connect with the existing urban fabric
- Sadhu Johnston, commissioner of the environment for the City of Chicago, charged by six-term mayor Richard M. Daley with “making Chicago the greenest city in United States.”
- Marion Weiss, co-founder and principal of the collaborative landscape architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi, which recently completed the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park located on an industrial site at the water’s edge
Respondents:
- Alex Garvin (Alex Garvin & Associates) and James Corner (Field Operation)
Panel: Free
Reception/Dinner: $150
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Event application is available on the Forum of Urban Design website at: http://forumforurbandesign.org/events.html
