Student Conference on Global Challenges. URBAN SPACES. February 24, 2011
Date: Feb 24, 2011
Time: All day conference
Venue: Behrakis Hall Grand Hall , Creese Student’s center, 32nd and Chestnut Street.
Panelist Registration is now open!
General Conference Registration is now open as well!
This conference will count toward the CEO credit. Student will only need to attend 2 panels and keynote speaker to receive full CEO credit.
Drexel University's 4th Annual Student Conference on Global Challenges addresses the enormous creative energy and capacity of the globe's urban spaces. Flows of people, capital, knowledge, information, and culture converge in cities and metropolitan corridors. These spaces, made of complex networks of human and material linkages, host both embedded centers of power and new challenges to existing political authority and territoriality; they are spaces in which extremes of wealth and poverty grow side-by-side, but also spaces of artistic creation, technological and scientific innovation, and human vitality. Urban spaces are at once hubs of transnational capital and global immigration, incubators of violence and disease, and hosts to creative solutions fostering social cooperation, sustainable infrastructure, and democratic engagement.
Students will address these challenges and opportunities through six different panels, including: global science, technology, and society; global health; global media; justice and human rights; global social and economic trends; and global business.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Laurie D. Olin
Laurie D. Olin is practice professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught for thirty years, and former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. Olin was recently chosen to serve as the landscape architect for the Barnes Foundation's new art education center to be located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.
He co-authored the book OLIN: Placemaking, published by Monacelli Press, which features a selection of the OLIN studio's most celebrated landscape architecture, urban design and planning projects. He also authored an essay titled "More Than Just Wriggling Your Wrist" for the book Drawing/Thinking: Confronting an Electronic Age published by Routledge. His redesign of the Washington Monument grounds received the 2008 Design Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Olin, and his five partners, received the 2008 Landscape Design Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. They were honored for their excellence and innovation in landscape design and dedication to sustainability.
