Webinar
Lean Solutions for Mean Times: Finding New Value by Putting Data to Work
On November 18th, 2020, Meeting of the Minds convened a free, live webinar featuring Fabrice Servant of Dassault Systémes and John Cerone of SHoP Architects.Program Overlapping crises throughout 2020 have revealed the importance of real-time information for local and state government, as well as those who design cities, to make urgent choices. Tough decisions are […]
Place and Well-Being: The 15-Minute Neighborhood and Lessons from Covid-19
On December 9th, 2020, Meeting of the Minds convened a free, live webinar featuring Aimee Gauthier and Christina Jang of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). Program This December 9th, two executives from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) will brief us on new research related to health and access in […]
Governing Complex Emergencies for Cities and Regions
On January 18, 2020 at 10am PST, Meeting of the Minds will convene a free, live webinar featuring Ainara Fernández Tortosa of UCLG and Philipp Rode of LSE Cities.Program Over the last few years, city and regional governments have begun to play an increasingly critical role in confronting complex emergencies, assisting with defining, deliberating, decision […]
Bringing UK Climate Solutions to Market: Case Studies from Oxfordshire and Connected Places Catapult
On February 10, 2021, Meeting of the Minds convened a free, live webinar featuring the Oxfordshire County and Connected Places Catapult. Program The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021. This webinar will put the spotlight on leading initiatives in the UK that are […]
Place Matters: How Cities Can Compete in the Next Future of Work Paradigm
On April 21, 2021, at 10am PDT, Meeting of the Minds convened a free, live webinar featuring Sean Audian, City Innovation Lead for the City of Wellington City Council (New Zealand), as well as Desmond Dickerson and Robert H. Brown of the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work.
Life is a Highway: Roadways as Platforms for Innovation
On May 19, 2021, Meeting of the Minds convened a free, live webinar featuring Steve Hamilton, a Senior Manager in Deloitte's Infrastructure & Capital Projects Practice and Steve Truebner, Sales Director, Connected Communities for Black & Veatch.Program The arteries of America, urban highways and rural backroads have become platforms for innovation to address overlapping challenges […]
Chocolate Cities — Co-Creating Liberated Spaces for People of Color
GoToWebinarThirdSpace Action Lab (TSAL) will share their observations and insights from the 2020 twin pandemics - COVID-19 and racial uprising - and its impact locally and nationally. They will also introduce and share their newest labor of love - Chocolate City Cleveland - a multigenerational, multimedia, and multidisciplinary experiment intended to preserve our collective memory of a better past, as to imagine a brighter future for Cleveland’s Black neighborhoods and beyond.
Equitable Local Economic Recovery: How to Rebuild Thriving Downtowns
On October 20, 2021, Meeting of the Minds convened a free, live webinar featuring Ilana Preuss, author of Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing.Program Most local economic development strategies do not specifically focus on how to build a more racially inclusive community of business owners, address our urban-rural divide of […]
The Role of Social Systems in Preparing, Responding and Recovering from Catastrophic Events
On January 18, 2022, at 10am PT, Meeting of the Minds will convene a free webinar featuring Jose Holguin-Veras, William H. Hart Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Program After massive disasters and catastrophes, communities’ infrastructure and communication systems can be severely affected to the point that they cease to function. Yet aid floods in when infrastructure […]
New Findings on the Impact of AVs on Urban Space, Inequality and Outward Migration
On Feb 16, 2022, Meeting of the Minds convened a free webinar featuring Chris Zegras, Professor, Mobility and Urban Planning; Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT.Archive Recording Recorded 2/16/2022ProgramBased on research conducted by a team at the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), and recently published in the academic journal Cities, […]