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Designing Sustainable and Creative Cities: A Coalition of Arts, Music and Architecture

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Designing Sustainable and Creative Cities: A Coalition of Arts, Music and Architecture

Monday, June 21, 2021

Description
Virtual forum organized by
the Association of Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations (Paris – New York)
and
Northeastern University – College of Arts, Media and Design (Boston, USA)

Time
21 June 2021 at 9 am (NY time),
3 pm (Paris time), 9 pm (Beijing time)

Objectives

Living in the pandemic age. led to closure of societies and distancing humanity. Nevertheless, It highlighted the critical and constructive role of culture at large and the arts in particular. The ensuing silence, dictated the need for a new mechanism, if not a vehicle to bring to the fore the interconnectivity of nature, creativity, design and artistic imaginations in facilitating a renewed dialogue among people and civilizations.

Through the collaboration between the Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations Association (Melody) and various departments of Boston’s Northeastern University (NE), we seek to integrate artists and the arts, music and design, as well as innovative architecture systematically in societal debates aimed at a better and more harmonious and sustainable living for humanity.

We try to re-define an innovative concept for future living. We challenge our distinguished speakers to share their imaginations and ideas on how to create such a new path and how to help humanity to live in more harmony with nature. Could this be achieved through a new urban designs enshrined with culture, arts and the advocacy of music? How can these elements of human civilizations be integrated to bring about a burst of innovative ideas and roles for arts, design and music as advocates of conscious and messengers for a harmonious living?

The name of the game in today’s world is urban living and urbanization. As cities expand, more congestion and more pollution are generated. Scarcity of comfort and a happy life may lead to an increase in crime, drug abuse and mental health problems.

Before the COVID pandemic, culture and creativity contributed to social cohesion at the neighborhood level, enable creative networks to form and advance innovation and growth. While, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a deep impact on the culture of cities, it has also revealed the power of cultural and creative industries as a resource for city recovery and resilience.

We aim to think of searching for means to support cities in unlocking
the power of cultural and creative industries
for sustainable urban development, and to alleviate the perpetuity of these challenges in our urban environments. We believe by reflecting on better designs for our cities, by providing recreational and leisure facilities, by introducing sustainability into our daily lives and by changing our paradigms we can live a happier life.

We want to launch a digital debating platform composed of individuals with different contextual, professional and geographical origins, drawing on a wide range of creative disciplines and trying to engage in trans-disciplinary works.

We aim to discuss about the practicality of smart cities and the circular economy as visions for the future of our communities. We will seek to identify global footprints in urban planning, reconnecting infrastructure with human health and drawing on new engineering approaches supporting the link between arts, music and architecture.

In particular we propose to reflect on:

· How creativity can transform urban planning & design

· How arts and culture, music and architecture can make cities more livable

· How the architectural design of future cities can become environmentally sustainable

Our speakers:

Stefano Boeri (Most famous green architect, Chairman Stefano Boeri Architetti Milan-Shanghai-Tirana)

Santiago Calatrava (Architect; New York-Zuerich-Doha)  

Farrokh Derakhshani (Director, Aga Khan Award for Architecture)

Gong Ke (President of World Federation of Engineering – WFEO)

Huda I. Alkhamis-Kanoo (Founder and President, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation)

Ranier Kern (Artistic and Festival Director, Enjoy Jazz)

Jee Won Kim (Principal, Jee Won Kim Architects, New York)

Charles Landry (President of The Bureaucracy Festival)

Simeona Manova (Cabinet of EU Commissioner Ferrira, responsible for the European Bauhaus project)

Migendi K. M’Rithaa (Professor of Industrial Design, Machakos University)

Satoshi Ohashi (Zaha Hadid studio, Beijing — designer of new Beijing Airport and other projects in China)

Taslim Owonikoko (Founder and CEO Berekotry Ltd.)

Joe Peach (Communications Director, WhereIsMyTransport)

Annabelle Selldorf (Architect; Principal, Selldorf Architects, New York)

Shain Shapiro (CEO Sound Diplomacy)

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Designing Sustainable and Creative Cities: A Coalition of Arts, Music and Architecture

Designing Sustainable and Creative Cities: A Coalition of Arts, Music and Architecture

Monday, 21 June 2021

Description
Virtual forum organized by
the Association of Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations (Paris – New York)
and
Northeastern University – College of Arts, Media and Design (Boston, USA)

Time
21 June 2021 at 9 am (NY time),
3 pm (Paris time), 9 pm (Beijing time)

Objectives

Living in the pandemic age. led to closure of societies and distancing humanity. Nevertheless, It highlighted the critical and constructive role of culture at large and the arts in particular. The ensuing silence, dictated the need for a new mechanism, if not a vehicle to bring to the fore the interconnectivity of nature, creativity, design and artistic imaginations in facilitating a renewed dialogue among people and civilizations.

Through the collaboration between the Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations Association (Melody) and various departments of Boston’s Northeastern University (NE), we seek to integrate artists and the arts, music and design, as well as innovative architecture systematically in societal debates aimed at a better and more harmonious and sustainable living for humanity.

We try to re-define an innovative concept for future living. We challenge our distinguished speakers to share their imaginations and ideas on how to create such a new path and how to help humanity to live in more harmony with nature. Could this be achieved through a new urban designs enshrined with culture, arts and the advocacy of music? How can these elements of human civilizations be integrated to bring about a burst of innovative ideas and roles for arts, design and music as advocates of conscious and messengers for a harmonious living?

The name of the game in today’s world is urban living and urbanization. As cities expand, more congestion and more pollution are generated. Scarcity of comfort and a happy life may lead to an increase in crime, drug abuse and mental health problems.

Before the COVID pandemic, culture and creativity contributed to social cohesion at the neighborhood level, enable creative networks to form and advance innovation and growth. While, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a deep impact on the culture of cities, it has also revealed the power of cultural and creative industries as a resource for city recovery and resilience.

We aim to think of searching for means to support cities in unlocking
the power of cultural and creative industries
for sustainable urban development, and to alleviate the perpetuity of these challenges in our urban environments. We believe by reflecting on better designs for our cities, by providing recreational and leisure facilities, by introducing sustainability into our daily lives and by changing our paradigms we can live a happier life.

We want to launch a digital debating platform composed of individuals with different contextual, professional and geographical origins, drawing on a wide range of creative disciplines and trying to engage in trans-disciplinary works.

We aim to discuss about the practicality of smart cities and the circular economy as visions for the future of our communities. We will seek to identify global footprints in urban planning, reconnecting infrastructure with human health and drawing on new engineering approaches supporting the link between arts, music and architecture.

In particular we propose to reflect on:

· How creativity can transform urban planning & design

· How arts and culture, music and architecture can make cities more livable

· How the architectural design of future cities can become environmentally sustainable

Our speakers:

Stefano Boeri (Most famous green architect, Chairman Stefano Boeri Architetti Milan-Shanghai-Tirana)

Santiago Calatrava (Architect; New York-Zuerich-Doha)  

Farrokh Derakhshani (Director, Aga Khan Award for Architecture)

Gong Ke (President of World Federation of Engineering – WFEO)

Huda I. Alkhamis-Kanoo (Founder and President, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation)

Ranier Kern (Artistic and Festival Director, Enjoy Jazz)

Jee Won Kim (Principal, Jee Won Kim Architects, New York)

Charles Landry (President of The Bureaucracy Festival)

Simeona Manova (Cabinet of EU Commissioner Ferrira, responsible for the European Bauhaus project)

Migendi K. M’Rithaa (Professor of Industrial Design, Machakos University)

Satoshi Ohashi (Zaha Hadid studio, Beijing — designer of new Beijing Airport and other projects in China)

Taslim Owonikoko (Founder and CEO Berekotry Ltd.)

Joe Peach (Communications Director, WhereIsMyTransport)

Annabelle Selldorf (Architect; Principal, Selldorf Architects, New York)

Shain Shapiro (CEO Sound Diplomacy)


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