Rethinking Cities - Using COVID-19 to Rethink CITY Building

Join us to learn about innovative initiatives that have been launched in Calgary to engage citizens in new forms of city building.

COVID-19 has and will continue to contribute to the greatest social change of our lifetime. Dr. David Finch and Dr. David Legg will discuss four Calgary initiatives that focus on leveraging the systematic impacts of COVID-19 for good. As a starting point, they argue that COVID-19 must force us to rethink how we measure our city. Rethinking measurement will trigger a flip of city building from top down centralized-planning, to one anchored in the principles of open innovation and citizen co-creation. During this talk, Dr. Finch and Dr. Legg will provide an overview of four-integrated Calgary initiatives focusing on flipping our city building model: The Community Prosperity Index, ActiveCITY Project, LearningCITY Project and the CreativeCITY Project.

Dr. David Finch

David Finch is a Professor and Associate Direct of the Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Mount Royal University. David is also a visiting scholar at the University of Guelph and the Henley Business School at the University of Reading. David is co-chair of the ActiveCITY Project, Director of the LearningCITY Lab.

Dr. David Legg

David Legg is a Professor in the Department of Physical and Health at Mount Royal University. David is the President of the International Federation of Adapted Physical Activity. He is the Past President of the Canadian Paralympic Committee and past board member for the 2015 Pan Parapan American Games in Toronto. David is the co-chair of Calgary's ActiveCITY Collective.

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