A city's vision of happiness
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We are very pleased to have Irene García Brenes join us for an evening of learning about city design for happiness. Irene is the advisor to the mayor of the Curridabat in Costa Rica on the Sweet City project.
Irene's work is focused on measuring happiness to improve life for the residents of Curridabat. Irene will speak about the city's vision for well-being and strategies for how they are addressing happiness for all living things. Some examples include how they used data to measure happiness at a city level and providing citizenship to bees, plants, and trees. We are so excited to host Irene to talk about all the great work she has done!
Please join us for her talk and open discussion!
We'll have space for 100 guests for the evening, and will let people in on a first come first serve basis, so do join early.
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Irene García Brenes is an urbanist, who has envisioned an enjoyable city, with thriving public spaces where biodiversity reclaims its role within the urban landscape and where people may rethink how they commute.
She is a Biotech Engineer with an MBA in Marketing from ITCR, the leading tech university in Costa Rica, and has a Sustainability. Management degree from INCAE Business School. She worked as the Director of the Mayor’s Office, and currently works as the Mayors´ advisor and leads its innovation team.
Irene has represented the Municipality of Curridabat as Chief Innovation Officer, and the Sweet City vision has received multiple awards over the past 5 years, including “Innovative Practices for the New Urban Agenda” from UN-Habitat, the Guangzhou International Award for “Urban Innovation", Le Monde Smart Cities Global Innovation Award, the International LafargeHolcim Awards for “Socio-spatial Governmentality in Costa Rica”, the Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award, NewCities for Wellbeing Cities Award, and a Charter Award for the “Center of Territorial Intelligence in Biodiversity” by the Congress of the New Urbanism.
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