Creativity for Urban Future

Urban Economy Forum & Urban + Future

Creativity for Urban Future will examine creativity and innovation for building sustainable models of urbanisation.

Cities are multidimensional, complex, dynamic, and powerful structures for habitat. They can facilitate a society's wellbeing, safety, and prosperity, while also limiting inequality, exclusion, and poverty. Cities are significant drivers in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which depends on the adoption and adaption of innovative practices as a sustainable model for urban development.Creativity and innovation are important pillars for building sustainable cities in the present and future and achieving the SDGs, in particular SDG 11 – sustainable communities and cities. At the scale of urbanization, we are enjoying a great number of disciplines and expertise that can help us to address the complexities of city building and provide solutions to face current challenges. At the core of urban planning should be good urban design that is creative and innovative where buildings, places and spaces are not isolated elements but as part of the whole city. For example, a building is connected to its street, the street to its neighbourhood, the neighbourhood to its city, and the city to its region. This will create an interactive synapses between all city elements.Urban design recognizes that cities are part of a constantly evolving relationship between people, land, culture, and the wider environment. This in essence, together with land use policies will move cities toward the sustainability goals.Housing is an important element that contains a city's fabric. The housing sector makes up the majority of construction in cities and for this reason has had great impact on the current structure of urbanism. Today’s city are captured by roads and cars, which are mainly being used as infrastructural tools to provide access to different parts of the city.We need a transformative approach to urban development that will create a place for people to live better and longer in a clean, safe, fair and beautiful environment and creativity is fundamental aspect in this regards.Creativity for Urban Future will examine creativity and innovation for building sustainable models of urbanisation.During the last decade, people’s life have been affected by great technological innovation, that has dramatically changed people’s lifestyles. Today we are witnessing the advancement of technology in many aspects of daily life but when compared to new technologies for housing and urban development, there is a long way to go.The pandemic has affected everyone’s way of life and underscored the importance of housing as a place to live and work. COVID-19 has demonstrated that we need to change the traditional style of housing and workplace. This new characteristic, where home and work are no longer separated, is changing the paradigm of human settlements.

Opening Speakers (Alphabetical Order)<ul><li>Adam Vaughan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development (Housing)</li><li>Eduardo Lopez Moreno, Head of Knowledge and Innovation, UN-Habitat </li><li>Mitchell Cohen, President, The Daniels Corporation</li><li>Tom Mrakas, Mayor, Town of Aurora</li></ul>Speakers (Alphabetical Order)<ul><li>Anantha Krishnan, Secretary General, Urban Economy Forum</li><li>Camila Ween, Director at Goldstein Ween Architects, Harvard Loeb Fellow</li><li>Eleanor Mohammed, President, Commonwealth Association of Planners </li><li>Frank D’hondt, Secretary General, ISOCARP</li><li>Gerrison Lumumba, Mathare Empire</li><li>Jose Etcheverry, Member of the Board of Governors, York University</li><li>Kamran Hassani, Co-Director, Urban+Future &amp; Professor, CDI College </li><li>Ken Greenberg, Architect and Principal of Greenberg Consultants </li><li>Lynn Xu, Director, University Research Center for Urban and Environmental Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University</li><li>Marissa Kokkoros, Executive Director and Founder, Aura Freedom International</li><li>Massoud Ghandchi, Co-Director, Urban + Future &amp; Chair, Ghandchi Foundation</li><li>Matti Siemiatycki, Associate Professor of Geography and Planning &amp; Interim Director of School of Cities, University of Toronto</li><li>Michael Brooks, CEO, REALPAC</li><li>Nadar Ardalan, Architect &amp; Senior Research Associate, GSD, Harvard University</li><li>Reza Pourvaziry, Architect &amp; Chair, Urban Economy Forum </li><li>Sam Chegini, Independent Filmmaker &amp; Founder and CEO, Sam Pictures Productions</li><li>Sean Toussi, Principal Architect, M.Arch. &amp; Forbes Magazine Council Member</li><li>Yvonne Yeung, Manager, Urban Design, City of Brampton</li></ul>

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