Are Smart Cities Putting Safety First?
As cities expand in size and population, and in a context where digital and physical threats continue to increase, the demand for responsive safety and security in cities, from a holistic and people-centric perspective, grows. How can city governments respond to safety and security challenges in a tailored manner that directly improves people’s lives? How to establish flexible and resilient enough systems so that they can rapidly adapt to hazards and new dangers?
The Energy Crisis – A Chance For Change?
We need to transform our cities and our mobility systems to have a chance of reaching carbon neutrality. The fast increase this year in oil and gas prices has impacted the energy and mobility sectors’ decarbonisation efforts. In this high-level session, speakers will reflect on challenges and opportunities resulting from this situation and discuss their approaches to liveable cities in this new context.
GTAI – Adapting to Welcome Outside Investments
For a city to thrive and progress it is oftentimes necessary to attract outside investment. This helps jumpstart potential and fuel opportunities. To talk with us about how to become welcoming to outside investment is Rob Compton, the Deputy Director for Energy, Building, and Environmental Technologies for Germany Trade & Invest, an organization specialized in facilitating international companies’ landing in Germany.
Marco te Brömmelstroet: Why was John Lennon in bed with a bicycle?
The language we use to think about mobility problems and solutions is not a mirror of reality, but profoundly shapes the reality we create. And in turn how people negage with each other and develop themselves while underway. If we think that the current unsustainable mobility system needs a radical change, we need to challenge this undelrying language and actively look for alternatives.
Infrastructure Shaping Cities for the Better
As the pressure to act on climate change increases, local authorities aim at setting ambitious urban agendas that can advance energy-efficient and sustainable buildings, infrastructures, and cities as a whole. What do city leaders need to consider for contributing to a better quality of life through smart and sustainable buildings and a well-integrated and intelligent […]
Hiroshi Ishii: Beyond Pixels, Towards the Radical Atoms
The future of the city is not the Metaverse made of 3D pixels but the Matterverse empowered by the Radical Atoms that blend bits and atoms.Radical Atoms assume a hypothetical generation of materials that can change form and properties dynamically. It is a vision for the future of Human-Material Interaction, in which all digital information […]
Cities at The Frontline of Climate Action
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to reach unsustainable levels and concerns on the lack of speed of the green transition keep raising worldwide, more voices are calling for clear decarbonization strategies in the post-pandemic era. How can we ingrain sustainability at the core of urban development? How can cities continue exploring innovative solutions to meet their energy needs while tackling climate change?
Opening the Future of Cities through SusHi Tech from Tokyo
Tokyo faces the huge risks of climate change and natural disasters. Supporting this Tokyo is its smart infrastructure, which has been built over many years. Now is the time for cities to walk together toward the future, 100 years ahead, through open innovation among cities.
Transforming cities: towards greener, innovative and fairer urban futures
We are experiencing an accelerated transformation due to the climate emergency, the digital transition and geopolitical events. They impact all levels of society and every area of our lives. Cities, as the spaces and systems that are closest and most representative to citizens, have to navigate those challenges by ensuring that no one is left […]
Carlos Moreno: The Revolution of Proximities. From Concept to Action
The effects of the Covid-19 crisis have shown the need to rethink our cities’ urban planning. This session aims to review the concept of ‘The City of proximities’ or ‘The 15-Minute City’, a model that pursues a new urban lifestyle to favor economic, ecological, and social value in the proximity by providing extensive access to essential local services within a maximum distance of 10 to 15 minutes on foot or by bicycle, to create a new multi-center city.