Agents of Mutation: The Evolution and Growth of Urban Innovation w/MIT DesignX
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Agents of Mutation: The Evolution and Growth of Urban Innovation
We live in an era of urban challenges. Transportation systems fraught with inefficiencies and emissions; sanitary water crises; food production cost versus sustainability; governance and social justice… urban imperatives rise as our cities grow larger and more diverse. But a powerful convergence of technology, innovation, and political will is bringing a groundswell of opportunity.
The question, then, is twofold: first, how to generate urban innovation? and second, how to integrate that innovation into the archaic cities we have inherited?
Answers are diverse, spanning a wide spectrum of stakeholders, actors, creators and consumers – the ‘agents of mutation’ that will shape the evolution and growth of cities. Future craft is a new model for enmeshing designers and the public to co-create cities. DesignX (http://designx.mit.edu/about/) ignites design pedagogy and re-directs innovation toward tangible implementation. Dynamic Policy Architecture implicates districts in a process of symbiotic regulatory and technical experimentation for metropolitan technologies. We are at a crossroads; the future of cities is being cast. Join the debate.
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Matthew Claudel is a designer, researcher and writer. He studied architecture at Yale, where he received the Sudler Prize – the highest award for creative arts. He has continued to work on applied research in architecture, innovation science, technology and art. He has been published widely, and co-authored two books: Open Source Architecture and The City of Tomorrow. Matthew has taught at MIT and the Politecnico di Torino e Milano, lectured at the Harvard Business school, was featured in the BBC Future series, serves on United Nation’s Digital Technologies for Sustainable Urbanization Network, and is an active protagonist of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s 89plus. Matthew is currently affiliated with the MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning and the MIT Lab for Innovation Science & Policy as a PhD student, and is a founder of DesignX, a new initiative in the MIT School of Architecture + Planning that accelerates innovation for the built environment.