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Sustainable Urban Design SUMMIT 2022

Our focus is on the human impact and human condition of growth, opportunity, challenges, and the outcome of conversations around the topics. The goal at each of our summits is to provide multi-level conversations that are compelling, challenging, and provocative allowing for participation and fluid exchange of ideas.

The 2022 Summit focused on neighborhood development and engagement and sustainable urban development.

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2022 speakers

JAMES WITHERSPOON

VP, Architecture & Design | Bedrock Detroit

CHRIS MOYER

Former Senior Director of Communication | Visit Detroit

ANTOINE BRYANT

Former Director of Planning & Development | City of Detroit

LAUREN HOOD

Founder & Chief Visionary | Institute for AfroUrbanism

EMILY DABISHYAHKIND

Detroit Director | CIV:LAB

LAPRISHA DANIELS

Executive Director | DWEJ

TERRY BARCLAY

Chair, CEO | SBN Detroit, Inforum

JOHN JOURDEN

Design Director | Gensler Detroit

NATE TREVETHAN

Principal | MVVA

WINKA DUBBELDAM

Founding Partner / Chai of Dept of Architecture | Archi-tectonics / University of Pennsylvania

OLGA STELLA

VP Strategy and Communications | College for Creative Studies

ROB ADAMS

Embassy of Mobility | Dutch Design Foundation

JEN GUARINO

CEO | JEN GUARINO ISAIC

ALEXA BUSH

Program Officer Detroit | The Kresge Foundation

MARC PASCO

Director of Communication | Detroit Riverfront Conservancy

ERIC LARSON

CEO | Downtown Detroit Partnership

ANKE VAN HALE

Professor Sustainable Building | Nyenrode Business Universiteit

BRITANY AFFOLTER-CAIN

Executive Director | Michigan’s University Research Corridor

MATTHIJS BOUW

Founding Partner | One Architecture

LIESL CLARK

Director | Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE)

ZACHARY DAMATO

Co-Founder | Urban Rivers

BO SHEPHERD

Co-owner, Designer | Woodward Throwbacks

JOSHUA BRUGEMAN

Expert in Residence | Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Tech University

RUBEN DUBELAAR

Advisor International Strategy | Holland Circular Hotspot

BENJAMIN J. LEFFEL

Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow University of Michigan | Erb Institute for GlobalSustainable Enterprise

KRISTINA KNAUF

Associate MVRDV Climate | MVRDV

DR. IRENE LUQUEMARTIN

Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS)

DOUG VOIGT

Urban Design & Planning Planner | SOM

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