Ger Innovation Hub/Image Credit: Rural Urban Framework Speaker
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Akiko OkabeAkiko Okabe is an architect and Professor in environmental studies at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, she practiced as an architect at Arata Isozaki & Associates in Barcelona. Okabe began teaching at Chiba University in 2004. Her books include The Future based on Sharing (2021; editor), Further Concentration in Megacities (2017; co-authored), Barcelona: a Mediterranean City (2010), Sustainable Cities: Regional and Environmental Strategies at the European Level (2003). Okabe’s work on urban upgrading via stakeholder participation in Jakarta received the Regional Holcim Award 2014 and Architectural Institute of Japan’s Architectural Education Award 2017.
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Mar 02 2022
- Time: 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm
03/19: Online Conversations
Conference Day 2
Conference Day 1
03/03 Online Conversations
DCG International Exhibition Opening
Center for Visual Art Presents DCG International Exhibition
03/03 Online Conversations
Two online conversation events, on 3 March and 19 March, extend the global community created by the Design for the Common Good Exhibition and Structures for Inclusion Conference. Join with public interest designers, community members, and leaders in the field for a curated dialogue about the exhibited projects and the stories behind them.
On March 3rd, a selection of five project teams and communities from the exhibition will reflect in a dialogue between DCG networks, open to all. The Conversations will focus on understanding the stories of community design projects and held online to support team members and communities around the world.
The March 3rd Conversations will be held 8:00–12:00pm GMT (3–7am EST) and feature keynote speaker Akiko Okabe.
PROJECTS
Block 1 @ 8:30am GMT
- CSF: Ger Innovation Hub | 4:00 PM–8:00 PM local time (Mongolia + Hongkong)
- LPN: Fish River Rangers Accommodations | 6:30 PM–10:30 PM local time (Australia, Adelaide)
- LPN: Imagine Castlegate | 8:00 AM–12:00 PM local time (UK, Sheffield)
Block 2 @ 10:15am GMT
- PRCN: Ah Ma Drink Stall | 4:00 PM–8:00 PM local time (Singapore)
- SEED: Vertical University | 1:45 PM–5:45 PM local time (Nepal)
- Join the Group:
Hourly Schedule
#1 Conversation: 3rd March 2022
- 8:00AM GMT
- Welcome, introduction Design for the Common Good (DCG), Live Projects Network, dbXchange network, Denver exhibition, DCG Website
- 8:10AM GMT
- Thematic keynote from panel-expert Akiko Okabe, Tokyo University
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Speakers:
Akiko Okabe
- 8:30AM GMT
- Block 1: project presentations + Q&As (3 x 15 min)
- 5 min project presentation from user/community as recorded film (3 min) | 5 min project presentations from professionals | 5 min questions from audience to presenters/community
- 9:15AM GMT
- Thematic discussion with audience
- 9:55AM GMT
- 20 min break
- chat-function available
- 10:15AM GMT
- Block 2: project presentations + Q&As (2 x 15 min)
- 5 min project presentation from user/community as recorded film (3 min) | 5 min project presentations from professionals | 5 min questions from audience to presenters/community
- 10:45AM GMT
- Thematic discussion with audience
- 11:25AM GMT
- wrap up
- 11:40AM GMT
- following: open chat/discussion
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