General Information

The NYC Urban Thinkers Campus (NYC UTC) will begin with welcoming remarks by Mary Rowe, Executive Vice President of the Municipal Art Society of New York, and Mary Watson, Executive Dean of The New School of Public Engagement.

Short presentations will then cover the goals and context of the Urban Thinkers Campuses and participation mechanisms and processes leading up to Habitat III and the drafting and implementation of the New Urban Agenda.

In the afternoon, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in three of nine Urban Labs, interactive discussions moderated by NYC UTC partners, working toward consensus on a set of recommendations to carry forward into the “zero draft” of The New Urban Agenda.

In a final plenary, Urban Lab moderators will report back and answer questions about two tangible policy prescriptions developed during their sessions.

Confirmed speakers and Urban Lab moderators include:

1.     Mary Rowe, The Municipal Art Society of New York
2.     Greg Scruggs, Citiscope
3.     Genie Birch, Penn Institute for Urban Research and World Urban Campaign Steering Committee Chair
4.     Jan Peterson, The Huairou Commission
5.     Michael Cohen, The New School
6.     Salin Geevarghese, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
7.     William Morrish, The New School
8.     Tom Dallessio, NextCity
9.     Toni Griffin, J Max Bond Center On Design For Just City
10.     David Maddox, The Nature of Cities
11.     Ariella Cohen, NextCity
12.     Jan Peterson, The Huairou Commission
13.     Pamela Ransom, Metropolitan College of New York
14.     Angela Eaton, The Sherwood Institute
15.     Morana Stipisic, Columbia University
16.     Lance Jay Brown and Aliye P. Celik, The Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization
17.     Joanna Crispe, The Municipal Art Society of New York
18.     Enrique Silva, The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
19.     Preksha Krishna Kumar, The International Accountability Project
20.     Hung Vo, UN Major Group for Children and Youth
21.     Lena Simet and Crista Carter, The New School

Event Programme

Contact

Crista Carter - Event Planner

Email: Cartc908@newschool.edu

Phone: +1 916.956.2703

Joanna Crispe - Program Manager

Email: jcrispe@mas.org

Phone:  212.935.3960

For more information, visit their website. Click here for participation and registration modalities.