Visualizing the City Conference

Saturday, 10/28/2006, 1:00–6:00pm
The Center for Architecture's Public Information Exchange will launch in April 2007 as a permanent technological installation centralizing information relating to architecture and development projects in New York City. It is a project of AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the New York City Department of City Planning and Center for Urban Experience. The “Visualizing the City” conference will bring together a diverse array of community activists, multimedia designers, architects and civic leaders for presentations of precedents and discussion of innovations in content management, technology and public participation. This conference will inform how the public and invested constituents will contribute to the development and use of the Public Information Exchange at the Center, as well as the future of New York City. Panelists and the audience will collectively explore methods of community engagement, content contribution for the database, as well as the techniques by which the dynamic, three-dimensional reality of the city and its structures can be rendered, interpreted, and visualized through technology. The conference will take place in partnership with the NY2050: futureWise effort of CUNY's Gotham Center for New York City History.

Speakers: ;James Sanders founder of Center for Urban Experience; Robert Greenhood, Friends of the High Line; Menaka Mohan, Sustainable South Bronx; Steven Romalewski, OASIS NY, Petra Todorovich, Regional Plan Association; Jake Barton, Local Projects; Michael Kwartler, Environmental Simulation Center; Matthew Bannister, Dbox; Jesse Shapins, Yellow Arrow/Counts Media; Meejin Yoon, HY Studio and Lisa Strausfeld, Pentagram; Ron Shiffman; Margarita Gutman, The New School and Universidad de Buenos Aires; Rosten Woo, Center for Urban Pedagogy; Vincent Chang, Grimshaw Architects; Ellen Ryan, Department of City Planning; Susan Szenasy, Metropolis Magazine.
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Urban Experience with support from CUNY Gotham Center for New York City History's NY2050 project. The Public Information Exchange is a Legacy Project of the American Institute of Architects in conjunction with its 150th Anniversary in 2007.

Sponsored by: New York City Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Carnegie Corporation, The Graham Foundation, the New York Community Trust and the Center for Architecture Foundation.

Additional funding provided by:
The Graham Foundation

Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Price: Free
CES LUs: 4.5

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