Mar 24, 2020
Benjamin de la Peña is an urbanist, a strategist and a design thinker. He’s worked on urban development issues that cover technology, sustainable transportation and informal systems. His writing has been featured in Citylab, Atlantic Cities, Next City, FutureEverything and TED City 2.0. He has presented at national and international conferences including Bloomberg and Atlantic’s…
Mar 24, 2020
Richard Sennett currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Program on Climate Change and Cities. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT. Previously, he founded the New York Institute for the Humanities, taught at New York…
Mar 23, 2020
Anthea a rejoint NewCities au début de l’année 2020. En tant que coordinatrice de programme pour CoMotion, elle gère les sujets et les intervenants des conférences CoMotion LA et Miami. Originaire de Vancouver, Anthea est titulaire d’un B.A. & SC. en sciences cognitives avec une mineure en linguistique de l’Université McGill. Après avoir obtenu son…
Mar 23, 2020
Holly est une passionnée de la ville, une créatrice de solutions très curieuse et sociable. Se promener à vélo dans les rues de la ville l’inspire, et elle adore les espaces publics animés. Avant de déménager à Montréal et de rejoindre NewCities en tant qu’assistante de projets, Holly a obtenu une maîtrise en planification urbaine…
Mar 23, 2020
Eve a rejoint NewCities en 2019 en tant que responsable de la communication et des relations presse. Elle a travaillé à Toronto, Londres, Paris et en Bretagne pour des organisations à but non lucratif, des entités gouvernementales et des grandes sociétés dans les secteurs des transports, de la santé et de la technologie.
Mar 23, 2020
Greg a rejoint NewCities en 2019 en tant que directeur de la recherche appliquée. Journaliste reconnu depuis plus de vingt ans, il croit en la combinaison d’un reportage qualitatif avec des données quantitatives pour comprendre ce qui rend les villes prospères et équitables.
Mar 23, 2020
Anthea is our Program Coordinator for CoMotion, our sister mobility conference. In this role, Anthea curates the content and speakers while managing the logistics of the CoMotion events. Before joining NewCities at the beginning of 2020, Anthea worked in the events and entertainment industry after graduating from McGill University with a BASc in Cognitive Science.…
Mar 20, 2020
Michele Acuto is director of the Connected Cities Lab, Professor in Urban Politics and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. He is an expert in international urban development. Michele is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and member of Fondation Botnar’s expert commission. Before…
Mar 20, 2020
Eva Hagberg is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia GSAPP and the author, most recently, of the critically-acclaimed memoir HOW TO BE LOVED: A MEMOIR OF LIFESAVING FRIENDSHIP. She has a PhD in Visual and Narrative Culture from UC Berkeley, and an AB in Architecture from Princeton University. She lives in New York, and is…
Mar 17, 2020
Rafi Segal is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at MIT. His work involves design and research on the architectural, urban and regional scale, currently focused on how emerging notions of collectivity can impact the design of buildings and cities. His current ongoing work includes designs for new communal neighborhoods in Israel,…
Mar 17, 2020
Of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist whose work redistributes power, “exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice” (ArtForum). With the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Jahn created CareForce, a project that amplifies the voices of America’s fastest growing workforce, caregivers. CareForce includes two mobile studios (NannyVan, CareForce One), an app…
Mar 16, 2020
Federico Parolotto is a Senior Partner at MIC – Mobility in Chain, www.michain.com, the firm he co-founded in 2009. He graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning at Milan Polytechnic and began his career at SOM London. As a transport planner, Federico worked on many major urban planning projects worldwide, advising clients ranging from public bodies…