Parallel Session 5

DATE: Saturday 7, December
TIME: 10:00-17:30
VENUE: Faculty of Science Bldg.1, Koshiba Hall　
LANGUAGE: English

Urban Futures

Agenda

Morning (one panel：2.5 hours)
	1.Envisioning/Expanding Urban Futures Moderator: Alison Isenberg, Co-Director, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities; Professor of History, Princeton University
	The morning panel focuses on Urban Futures models from different disciplines. It takes this premise as its starting point: How societies envision and imagine the future directly impacts the ways we build and plan our cities and cultures. In what ways can we expand these visions and apply this research for the greater good? Annette Kim, Associate Professor Planning, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Marshall Brown, Associate Professor of Architecture, Princeton University Yokohari Makoto, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Eric Avila, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, History and Urban Planning, UCLA Kusakabe Takahiko, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo, President, College of Mexico/El Colegio de México
Afternoon (two panels：2 hours)
	2.Urban Spectacle: Infrastructure and the Olympics Moderator: Dianne Harris, Senior Program Officer, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
	Panel 2 takes the case study of Olympics planning to weigh the balance of vision, construction, and impact on cities. The Olympics offer a global framework while focusing on the lessons from individual cities and regions. What is the relationship between the business model of Olympics development and cities’ concrete needs as captured by urban planning and design? Does urban planning incorporate and advance the needs of cities and their citizens in Olympics case studies? Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Franz Prichard, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University Imaizumi Jugo, Director, Japan Sport Council Yoshimi Shunya, Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
	3.The Future is Now: Cities on the Edge Moderator: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
	The third panel focuses on how cities face long-term demographic and economic transformations as well as immediate environmental, industrial, and wartime catastrophes. How do humanities, arts, and social science tools and concepts contribute to frameworks for constructive change? Dietmar Offenhuber, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University Juan Du, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Hong Kong University Meguro Kimiro, Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo Alison Isenberg, Co-Director, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities; Professor of History, Princeton University Orit Halpern, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University Sheldon Garon, Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies; Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University