The Future City: An Integrated Ecosystem

This session features a series of facilitated conversations and a small-group exercise that will focus on the future city and what NESEA thinkers and practitioners can do now to create impact. The city is an important scale for holistic innovation that can play a major role in global decarbonization. Practitioners can learn to optimize this scale to integrate building-level, streetscape-level, and community-level clean energy ingenuity. Audience members will interact with: a community psychologist who has used a whole systems approach to shape our culture and places for decades; a regional practitioner who helps to usher in smart-city innovation; and a private sector professional who guides cities to explore multi-benefit district energy systems. Each participant will leave with 3 action steps to implement a city-scale measure in their ecosystem.