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Last month in Prague, I guest curated and co-hosted the seventh annual edition of reSITE, where the theme this year was housing. A one-minute highlights video is posted above, along with a quick-and-dirty recap of the conference and a few photos are posted below. You can also listen to a special edition of Monocle Radio’s “The Urbanist,” starring Jeanne Gang, Sou Fujimoto, Elizabeth Streb, and Dara Huang.
I’ll only add that the list of speakers also included original (albeit less famous) voices like Christine Nieves and Luis Rodriguez Sanchez of the Puerto Rico-based post-hurricane recovery group Apoyo Mutuo Mariana, Rahul Srivastava and Matias Echanove of the Mumbai-based research collective URBZ; the novelist and journalist Tim Maughan; the architect and filmmaker Liam Young, and many more.
It was exhausting, exhilarating, and humbling all at once – a supposedly fun thing I would definitely do again.
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The 7th annual flagship event reSITE 2018 ACCOMMODATE asked the question of how and where we want to live – and how we will afford it. Nearly 1200 visitors registered for the global forum held on June 14–15, 2018 in Prague, where a global lineup of speakers explored the future of cities and housing. Architects Jeanne Gang, Sou Fujimoto, Michel Rojkind, Reinier de Graaf offered new visions for living together in public space; WeWork, MINI, and Design Haus Liberty presented bold plans for co-living, and dozens of architects, mayors, planners, and investors debated how to solve the global housing crisis.
LSE Cities director Ricky Burdett’s opening keynote framed the challenge succinctly: “Inequality is baked into the design of cities.” What we need, he said, is “convergence – living in the areas where everyone has the same opportunities, not opportunities based on postal code.”
Speakers’ lineup (among others):
Sou Fujimoto, Founder of Sou Fujimoto Architects, JP
Michel Rojkind, Founder of Rojkind Arquitectos, MX
Jeanne Gang. Studio Gang, US
Oke Hauser, Creative Director, Mini Living, DE
Dara Huang, Founder of Design House Liberty, UK
Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, AL
Darrick Borowski, Creative Director of WeWork and WeLive, US
Anita Roth, Airbnb’s Head of Policy Research, US
Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities, UK
Reinier de Graaf, OMA/AMO, NL
Dan Hill, Arup, UK
Marcus Fairs, founder of Dezeen, UK
Carlota Rebelo, Monocle’s producer and reporter, UK
Rob Bole, General Manager of Citylab, US
For the first time, reSITE hosted lively and popular discussions on its intimate Live Mic Stage. Sou Fujimoto, Jeanne Gang, Ricky Burdett, Dara Huang, Michel Rojkind, and other speakers shared “what I’ve learned” with visitors asking about what happens behind the scenes of their work.
reSITE also hosted the premiere of the drone documentary Elevation. The directorial debut by Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs is an eye-opening odyssey into the future of living and urban design once drones will become as ubiquitous as the Internet. Fairs noted in his commentary that “architects should collaborate with software engineers just as they do with structural engineers.”
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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab, a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of Climate Alpha and remains a senior advisor. Previously, he was an urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale.
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