Curating reSITE 2018

I’m excited to announce I’ve been invited to curate reSITE 2018 in Prague on June 14-15. If you’re not familiar with reSITE, it’s a non-profit series of events devoted to the future of cities, whose tentpole conference in Prague attracts more than a thousand participants from around the world. I had the pleasure of speaking at both the 2013 and 2015 editions (pictured above), where recent themes have included the “shared city,” infrastructure, and the global refugee crisis.

Given its uncanny topicality, it should be no surprise that this year’s theme is the future of housing. More from the official reSITE 2018 press release below:

Is it time to reconsider what a better city looks like? The tide has clearly lifted all boats over the last two decades of urban development, yet gentrification, rising costs of living and inequality pose considerable challenges for city leaders, investors, planners and architects to design a city that works for everyone.

“The convergence of housing and quality of life in the city will define this year’s work and events for reSITE. We will explore new forms of housing, check out the cost of living and identify cultural and architecture projects that enhance our lifestyle. I’m really excited to change the format this year with a new program curator, Greg Lindsay, who will help us see new ways of living and working in the city – a sort of theory of relativity for the positive impacts that may arise at the intersection of change, tradition and new thinking.” – Martin Barry, Chairman of reSITE

“I’m honored to join reSITE as guest curator after having had the pleasure of watching it evolve as a speaker and attendee since 2013. I’m also humbled to tackle the biggest issue cities face: where and how people live, and how to do it fairly, equitably, and sustainably. The right to the city begins with housing, and so that’s where the theme of reSITE 2018 begins,” explains the new program curator of the event Greg Lindsay, a writer, journalist and urbanist.