Digital initiatives for ecological cities

Dr Costis Toregas

School of Engineering & Applied Science, George Washington University  & Ecocity Builders Board Member and Treasurer

Dr Costis Toregas is the Director of the Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute at The George Washington University (https://cspri.seas.gwu.edu/).  He is a respected consultant to national governments and intergovernmental organizations, and a much sought-after speaker on the impact of technology in government, sustainability, and society.   

Dr Janis Birkeland

Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne

Janis is a professor at the University of Melbourne.  Previously, she was Professor of Sustainable Design at the Uni of Auckland, New Zealand, and Professor of Architecture at Queensland Uni of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.  Before entering academia, she was a lawyer, architect and planner in San Francisco.  She originated the theory of net positive development and design, and taught and published on the subject for decades.  Her Ph.D was Planning for Sustainability (1993) and her books include Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development (2020) Positive Development (2008), and Design for Sustainability (2002). See http://netpositivedesign.org 

Prof. Montse Delpino-Chamy

Associate Professor, Departamento de Urbanismo, Universidad de Concepcion Chile

Montse Delpino-Chamy is an Architect, Urban Planner, and founder of SENSUR, the first digital platform for participatory mapping in Spanish.

Montse has taught at various universities in Chile, Uruguay, Australia and Spain. She had worked in urban planning processes with Regional Governments and been involved with consulting projects in Chile, Italy, Brazil and Uruguay. Additionally, she had provided volunteer services in various NGOs and citizens associations for local development, and private councils for the formulation of public policy.
Her academic and professional work focuses on sustainable urban development, with special emphasis on the relationship between urban design and citizen perception.

Déborah López and Hadin Charbel

Pareid is an award winning  interdisciplinary design and research studio located between London and Spain. Their works adopt approaches from various fields and contexts, addressing topics related to climate, ecology, human perception, machine sentience, and their capacity for altering current modes of existence.

Led by Déborah López and Hadin Charbel, practice and pedagogy intermingle at the Bartlett School of Architecture where they lead Research Cluster 1 under the title of ‘Monumental Wastelands’. Using climate fiction as a vehicle they combine video-game engines, aggressive material reuse, and narratives, to challenge current economically profitable models through imminent fictions (if).

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