Carlos Moreno and Digital Blue Foam to Inaugurate Global 15’ City Summit
The inaugural 15 Minute City Design Summit will bring together global leaders for July 20th for a live-stream event and podcast. Get your invite to join us July 20th, 3–6pm GMT+2.
Inaugural 15' City Summit
Singapore — June 26, 2022 Today, Digital Blue Foam announced the launch of a 15-Minute City Summit they will host on July 20th. The virtual 15-Minute City Summit will be live-streamed for public viewing.
Presently, cities worldwide are struggling to balance the challenges of decarbonization, climate adaptation, shifting demographics, and a shortage of affordable housing — challenges exacerbated by the global pandemic.
Popularized by Carlos Moreno’s 2020 TED talk, the 15-minute city is a recent trend in urban planning towards to address these challenges by facilitating the creation of vibrant pedestrian districts. While progressive cities like Paris, Madrid, Milan, Ottawa, and Seattle adopt the15-minute city as a planning policy, many hurdles abound to its adoption globally.
Sayjel Patel and Camiel Weijenberg, Founders of DBF said “Ensuring the creation of better cities will only be possible if leaders work together to share and deploy know-how, innovation, and promising approaches to accelerate the transition back to pedestrian-centric urban development”.
Ensuring the creation of better cities will only be possible if leaders work together to share and deploy know-how, innovation, and promising approaches to accelerate the transition back to pedestrian-centric urban development.
Craig Applegath, Host of Twenty-First Century Imperative Podcast, to Host Live Panel Discussion
The 15' City Summit will be hosted by Craig Applegath — an award winning architect and the host of The Twenty-First Century Imperative — a podcast which explores solutions to the global challenges of climate change. The 15' City Summit will convene participants from leading building design and construction firms, city governments, and universities.
The summit will feature the following panels:
- Defining the 15 Minute City
- Enabling the 15 Minute City Through Technology
- The Future of the 15 Minute City in the Face of a Changing Climate
Moreno Headlines Cast of Global Leaders Imagining, Designing, and Planning 15' Cities.
The following global 15' City leaders to leaders will participate in the Summit:
Carlos Moreno, Paris Sorbonne University
Helene Chartier, Director, C40 Cities
Boudewijn Thomas, Project Leader, MVRDV Architects
Tiffany Chu, Chief of Staff, City of Boston
Shweta Gandhi, Urban planner, AECOM
Chris Green, Senior Designer, ERA-co
Bige Tunçer, Associate Professor, SUTD Informed Design Lab
Bryan Boyer, Director, Urban Technologies, Taubman College
Anna Rose, Director, Space Syntax
Philippe Chiambarretta, PCA-STREAM
Sayjel Patel, Co-Founder, DBF
About DBF
DBF is a Singapore-based technology company and creator of a AI-powered platform for building design and development. Earlier this year, Digital Blue Foam launched a 15 minute design tool to galvanize bottom-up efforts in the design community towards pedestrian-friendly urban developments.
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