November 9, 2023, Newlab Detroit
A one day event shaping sustainable city futures through ideas and insights. Fostering networking opportunities engaging in discussions on urban cities and sustainability
9AM - 9PM
2050 15th St, Detroit, MI 48216
A ONE DAY EVENT
SHAPING SUSTAINABLE CITY FUTURES THROUGH IDEAS AND INSIGHTS
fostering networking opportunities engaging in discussions on urban cities and sustainability
COME & STAY FOR THE AFTER PARTY!
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Newlab, Detroit
Cocktails
Networking
DJ powder blu
Conversations!
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Upon arrival, attendees can enjoy coffee and networking
while exploring exhibitors areas and Scott Hocking’s featured artwork.
Ivana Kalafatic, founder of Detroitisit and 2gathr,
will begin the summit with an introduction.
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND ENGAGEMENT
What is the intersection of social equity and quality of life?
Time and place, what do we do with both? Two factors that impact the equity of living in a just city. How do we consider the future of land use, transportation, social services, circularity, sustainable practices, in terms of resources, future goals, quality of life, and the communities that make up our cities.
SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN
The nuts and bolts of building a resilient city
Sustainable design for a city has numerous complexities and elements to instill in terms of urban planning and its infrastructure projects. When considering project development, a resilient city could implement the reuse of materials, technological forward solutions, mitigation solutions, green urbanism, carbon sequestering, etc.
Coffee Break
MULTIMODAL MOBILITY
Getting past the barriers of innovating in mobility
Changing culture and experiences people are used to is hard. Add to that innovating and building a socially equitable model for a more sustainable future, for an audience that still needs to be educated on the opportunities and use cases. How do cities work with businesses and organizations to build the mobility structures for the future that awaits us? Access to infrastructure for mobility in cities includes equitable deployment of infrastructure in underrepresented areas/communities.
SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN
Integration Plays a Crucial Role in the Building of Our Cities
Why does a city need a sustainability agenda when considering its built environment? Industry, the environment itself, transit, civic and social services, a built community and more intertwine in cities – how do a city office, engineers, developers, and architects work through the intricacies that make the future of a resilient city a success?
INNOVATION IN SUSTAINABILITY
Applying Systems Thinking to the Sustainable Design Process
Sustainability could be considered an interdisciplinary activity. What role do research and design play in the making of place? What about technology, and data? How can we better apply design to the process of how things get built, sustainably?
Lunch
Neighborhood Development and Engagement
Purposeful Placekeeping and Investment in Community
Investment without displacement is the focus of building equitable cities for all in the community. How can we become intentional towards legacy place making, thus place keeping for the residents of a city? What measures can we take for positive impact on our cities? What, if any, strategic guidelines could exist for investment in our neighborhoods and how can we apply them to become a more resilient city?
Taking place the same day as the Sustainable Urban Design Summit at Newlab, Detroit, the Urban Dialogues, led by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Chicago, are three, curated workshops and conversations focused on Urban Design, Mobility, and Community Engagement. Experts and innovators here have a chance to engage in and attend deep dive conversations into each of the three topics alongside their peers.
MULTIMODAL MOBILITY
Applying New Thinking to New Models of Moving
The Motor City becomes the Mobility City as technology and solutions get applied to new models around mobility. Does clustering like-minded innovators add to better innovation through programs like Michigan Central and Newlab, Detroit? How does a start up mind set encourage progress in mobility?
Coffee Break
Multimodal Mobility
How Mobility and Infrastructure Will Affect Policy
What does multimodal mobility for a city look like and what roles do innovation zones play in bringing mobility to life? The process of aligning city, state, private, and policy is complex, what does it take for success? Aligning urban planning, mobility strategy, and process has a part in the determination of infrastructure and community impact – how is that coming together for the autonomous vehicle corridor in Michigan?
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND ENGAGEMENT
Ways of Bridging the Past, Present, and Future
In honoring the stewardship of place, people are the greatest asset in a city such as Detroit. An inclusive community honors its environmental and economic needs such as considering and supporting generational businesses, safety in community, public health, mobility and infrastructure equity, historic preservation, and sustainable circular structures.
Join us for wine, networking, and live entertainment by DJ Blu to end the day!
Parking is available on-street or at the Bagley Mobility Hub Parking Garage, located at 1501 Wabash Street.
Scott Hocking was born in Redford Township, Michigan in 1975. He has lived and worked in Detroit city propersince 1996. He creates site-specific installations, sculptures, photography and video projects, often using found materials and neglected locations. Inspired by subjects ranging from ancient mythologies to current events, his artworks focus on transformation, ephemerality, chance, the cycles of nature, and patterns of human behavior through time. His site-specific works involve deep-dives into history, and attempt to intersect our present time with the past.
RELICS is a large-scale modular installation, originally created for the exhibition Artists Take on Detroit: Projects for the Tricentennial, at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 2001. A labor-intensive collaboration with Clinton Snider, we proposed an immersive room-sized installation, chronicling the 300 -year history of Detroit through a floor-to-ceiling collection of found objects and mixed media sculptures. Building approximately 400 wooden boxes in our respective studios, we used thousands of eroded man-made objects found through- out Detroit and created each individual RELICS box to become part of towering grid-like reliquary walls.
Based on ideas of scientific taxonomy, archeology, wunderkammers, and the talismanic qualities of ancient artifacts, we saw the installation as a comment on natural history museums of the future, how quickly objects from our time become obsolete, and a way to recycle and recontextualize wasted materials into objects of beauty and art. Since 2001, RELICS has been reconfigured site-specifically dozens of times, including the RELICS ARC of 2003 and versions exhibited in Vienna, Chicago, Windsor, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Detroit. Hundreds of boxes have been sold in site-specific grids, and hundreds of new boxes have been created over the last twenty years.
Scott will be showcasing his installation piece at the summit.
Click here to learn more about Scott.
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Original Source:
Guardian Glass
1932
Founded in Detroit, Michigan
1970
Opens first float glass plant in Carleton, MI Recycled + Repurposed by Urban Ashes
2009
Founded in Ann Arbor, MI.
Float glass, commonly found in picture frames, poses challenges in recycling, and often ends up in landfills. Nevertheless, it can be effectively repurposed by casting it with other picture frame glass to create new items.
Each ton of unused glass represents a missed opportunity to leverage the 800 pounds of CO2 involved in its production. Upcycling float glass through casting techniques preserves the legacy of the individuals and the processes that gave rise to this product, while reducing the need for fresh glass production.
Two semi trucks full of urban red oak logs were diverted from the chipper and reclaimed from the Ford Vehicle Performance & Electrification Center in Allen Park MI construction site. Three massive 9’x24’ conference tables and 2 large wall sculptures produced from the fallen trees for the new building.
New sustainable product put to use from the urban red oak logs upcycled to wood bud vases for Detroitisit and the third annual Sustainable Urban Design Summit 2023.
Original Source – Ford Vehicle Performance & Electrification Center in Allen Park MI
The urban wood and finished products traveled less 175 miles.
1.43 metric tons of carbon remains sequestered within these urban wood goods
Equal to planting 87 seedlings and growing them for 10 years
Every year in the U.S., we fail to capture a valuable natural resource – furniture grade urban lumber from our fallen urban trees – to the tune of 46 MILLION metric tons.
That loss also releases approximately 84 MILLION metric tons of CO2 emissions equaling about 1.75% of U.S. total emissions. If we captured just 50% of that available lost urban wood, it would be approximately equivalent to planting 694 MILLION tree seedlings each year and growing them for 10 years.
TO LEVERAGE THE FUTURE-FOCUSED MINDSET OF APPLYING SOLUTION-BASED DESIGN THINKING TO URBAN DEVELOPMENT, MOBILITY, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND READINESS TOWARDS THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Our focus is on the human impact and human condition of growth, opportunity, challenges, and the outcome of conversations around the topics.
Exploring challenges and vision for the development of neighborhoods in the physical and social domains including design, investments, and planning, the socio economic dynamic, equity, empowerment, and the interdependency of a built community.
Drawing valuable insights for thoughtful and sustainable planning of infrastructure, services, design, technology, and innovation. While considering a circular economy, sustainable architecture, smart city development, spatial planning, infrastructure design; each element serving as a cornerstone for bolstering a city in the face of climate change, economic downturns, and various civic and social realities.
The impact multiple modes of mobility will have on a city, and individuals that partake in it. What will it take to build a smart mobility enhanced city, what services and support are needed, what infrastructure is required, what equitable conversations need to be had, what can we learn from the past for the future.
Taking place the same day as the Sustainable Urban Design Summit at Newlab, Detroit, the Urban Dialogues, led by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Chicago, are three, curated workshops and conversations focused on Urban Design, Mobility, and Community Engagement. Experts and innovators here have a chance to engage in and attend deep dive conversations into each of the three topics alongside their peers.
BOTH URBAN DIALOGUES AND THE SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN SUMMIT FOCUS IS TO GENERATE NOVEL NEW IDEAS THAT AGGREGATE EFFORTS AND IDEAS ACROSS CONTINENTS AND EXPERTISE.
At the Madison Building, on October 13, 2022, creative solutions were developed through a global yet hyperlocal program focused on Sustainable Urban Planning, the Circular Economy, Climate and the City, Smart City, Energy Efficiency, Social Justice in Urban Design, and more. A multi-layered conversation is envisioned as a bridge builder to grow the best solutions for long-term partnerships and opportunities between the two geographies.
October 19 & 21, 2021 together with The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Chicago, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Washington DC, and Dutch Design Week, we co-hosted the first virtual Sustainable Urban Design Summit on Zoom. Over two days, we explored the challenges and opportunities in the built environment with U.S. and Dutch thought leaders of sustainable urban design and the circular economy.
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