CITENTITY: The Personality, the Soul, the Identity of the Cities
Do cities have personality? How can we identify and analyze the Citentity of our cities? This session will discuss how The Citentity can help us plan our cities better. It will explore a first approach to The Citentity of three existing cities : Barcelona, Medellín and the Mexican city of Mérida, and how their cardinal and guiding traits make them unique and should mark their evolution and development.
Collectively Moving Cities Forward
The preservation of a world based on democratic values, where the quality of life and equality in rights are guaranteed, is a mission that requires the active participation of cities and a joint effort from their stakeholders across all levels of collaboration. How are we empowering civil society to help move our cities forward? What […]
The Levi-Montalcini Foundation Headquarter: a Building Designed for the Future
Giuseppe Masanotti, as a member of the design team, will illustrate the visionary project for the Levi-Montalcini Foundation’s new headquarters. This is, out of doubt, a pioneering, eco-sustainable project, integrating innovative and experimental solutions. Designed by Giancarlo Zema Design Group, the building will feature biochar-infused concrete, 3D-printed eco-cement structures, a vertiport for electric passengers drone […]
Fusion of Maestros – Keynote by Melike Altinisik
Melike Altınışık’s presentation explores the captivating synergy that emerges when nature, architecture, and technology intersect. She emphasizes the power of cross-disciplinary collaboration in driving innovation, highlighting notable achievements from MAA’s diverse portfolio. From the futuristic 369-meter Çamlıca Tower in Istanbul to the groundbreaking Robot and AI Museum in Seoul, Altınışık illustrates how blending natural inspiration […]
Joint Horizons—Partnerships for a Smart Recovery in Ukraine
The Ukraine Facility is the European Union’s main investment instrument for Ukraine up to 2027, worth EUR 50 billion, whose key aim is to foster partnerships between Ukrainian and European businesses. One of the main pillars of the Facility is the ‘Ukraine Investment Framework’ (UIF), designed to attract and mobilise public and private investments for […]
Bold Strategies for Funding the Future
Groundbreaking ideas and visionary plans need finance to become reality. Cities must find financial partners and alternative economic models to achieve sustainable goals, perform community projects, and foster local growth. What options do cities have to finance public projects when national or regional budgets fall short? How crucial is cross-sector collaboration for financing? How can we unlock local investments to shift to clean and equitable economies?
This session featured the participation of our global partners KPMG International.
A Digital Revolution Designed for All
What obstacles arise in urban environments that hinder digital equality and inclusion, and how can cities address them? In what ways are local governments promoting digital equity and social justice to ensure equal access to technology? This roundtable will explore the innovative strategies that cities are employing to bridge the digital divide, ensuring that all residents have equitable access to technology, digital literacy, and the opportunities they facilitate.
Pathways to Digital Democracy: Lessons from the global south
This keynote presents a toolkit for developing four pillars of digital democracy –democratic governance, participatory citizenship, digital diversity and rights to information. The toolkit charts a collection of instruments, measures and guidelines to empower marginal social groups. It thus enables those dispossessed of the public sphere of the city and the digital realm alike, to claim, inhabit and thrive in both urban and digital spaces.
Wellbeing-Based Smart City Policy Design
How can smart cities improve well-being and life satisfaction of citizens? Takehiko will present a new smart city policy design approach that focuses on both subjective and objective well-being of citizens as a basis of designing smart city polities. This one of the kind approach was developed by Smart City Institute Japan and has been extended to use in about 100 cities in Japan as part of the national digital transformation strategy to revitalize regional economy and society.
Enabling Technologies to Enhance Quality of Life in Hail City
This session will feature the participation of our global partner Hail Municipality.