Webinar: Transforming into Ethical Smart Cities by Institute without Boundaries

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About This Webinar

Join the Institute without Boundaries’ 2019/20 cohort on Friday, May 29th, 2020 for the official launch of their Playbook, Website and an Interactive experience on how to transform cities into Ethical Smart Cities.

Background

In 2019, the Institute without Boundaries (IwB), an Interdisciplinary Design Strategy program at George Brown College in Toronto, embarked on a nine month-long project to study smart cities. This investigation looked at the trends and forces that impact the design and future of cities. From there, they have developed strategies for smart cities that are inclusive, sustainable and ethical.

What You’ll Learn

We’ll be sharing our Ethical Smart City philosophy - why it’s important, and how communities can work towards it with specific tools & resources. Have a conversation with John Jung - an Urban Planner, Chairman and Co-Founder of Intelligent Communities Forum Canada (ICF - Canada) - about Ethical Smart Cities and behind the scenes of the tools. You’ll also get an opportunity to network with peers and other smart city champions around the world.

In partnership with the Community Solutions Network and Evergreen, and their client ICF - Canada.

Agenda

Welcome
Ethical Smart Cities
What is the ESC Framework?
Projects
Publication and Website Launch
Fireside Chat moderated by John Jung
Q&A
Closing Statements + Networking

Presenters

Adunni Rufai

Student Design Strategist

Adunni is a certified design sprint facilitator as well as a Chartered Accountant. After working as a financial auditor for over 7 years she made the transition to design strategy and started a business, AADÙN, that upcycles and repurposes traditional African hand-woven fabric. As a Design Strategist, she brings alignment between design and experience, through research, creative problem solving, collaboration, and paying attention to detail while thinking big picture.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project, Adunni believes that cities should be designed and built to serve the human experience through systems, products and services, while maintaining the balance in the overall ecosystem.

Amanda Nobile

Student Design Strategist

Amanda’s passions range from promoting sustainable eating to facilitating the integration of Syrian refugees into the Canadian society. While completing her undergraduate degree in Global Studies, she created Hungry Hippie, a start-up that caters plant based meals to students. As a Design Strategist, she brings problem solving at the systems level with the ability to efficiently identify and articulate the opportunities for innovation.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project, Amanda believes that when cities understand and prioritize their community's values resilient cities are built.

Andrea Facenda

Student Design Strategist

Andrea is an artist who uses her platform to invite curiosity and thought. Trained as a graphic designer, interactive designer and Illustrator, she has worked on branding and identity design. As a Design Strategist, she brings design thinking, design research, systems thinking, critical thinking and graphic design to generate creative and resilient solutions.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project, Andrea believes that the future of cities and smart technologies can only succeed if their users are prioritized and empowered to be the agents that transform their own evolution.

Céline Genest

Student Design Strategist

Céline is a spatial designer-turned-user experience (UX) researcher, who has worked on projects ranging from planning physical spaces to improving digital products and services. She has an undergraduate degree in Interior Design and attended courses on everything from Python and data visualization to sailing and woodworking. As a Design Strategist, she brings a growth mindset with a research-driven, creative problem solving approach.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project, Céline believes resilient cities learn from their community and others.

Eirene Keh

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project, Eirene believes that all cities are smart. An Ethical Smart City is one that listens to and meets the needs and aspirations of its communities.

Eirene has worked in healthcare as a Lead Medical Radiation Technologist after earning double bachelor’s degrees in health and radiation sciences. Curiosity and a drive for personal growth led her to discover the potential for design thinking to produce large-scale, positive, social change. As a Design Strategist, she brings systems thinking, research, empathy and a nuanced understanding of user journeys.

Hardeep Kaur

Student Design Strategist

Hardeep has over 7 years of experience in change management, communication strategy and planning, process design and implementation, data governance policies and framework, digital transformation, instructional design and facilitation, and value realization. With a bachelor's degree in learning design and a masters degree in Literature, information design is her forte. As a Design Strategist, she brings transformative frameworks to life with a human-centred design approach.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project, Hardeep believes that all cities do not have the same starting point, so no one solution can fit all. So, cities need to begin by looking inward to understand the needs of their communities while learning from other cities that are successful to create their own unique blueprint for smart.

John Jung

Co-Founder and Chairman of the Intelligent Community Forum

ohn is a registered urban planner, urban designer, economic developer, urban navigator & global speaker on smart cities & intelligent communities. His pioneering urban planning work since the 1980's is credited as originating the smart & intelligent cities concept with his US-based co-founders. Since 1999, the Intelligent Community movement has grown around the world with over 200 cities and thousands participating. Graduate of University of Waterloo's Urban & Regional Planning School & Masters of Urban Design from the University of Manchester, plus several Honorary post-graduate degrees and professorships. John is the Co-Founder & Chairman of the global think-tank called the “Intelligent Community Forum” (ICF) (www.intelligentcommunity.org) headquartered in New York City & in 2015 formed ICF Canada (www.icf-canada.com) & guided the creation of ICF Taiwan & the ICF Institute in Taiwan. He has published articles, blogs & white papers & addressed hundreds of audiences worldwide on the topic of smart cities, urban development & international marketing of cities & urban regions. He has co-authored a series of books and written and presented hundreds of papers and articles. He is also a blogger and writes columns for global publications. John travels extensively as a sought-after adviser, speaker & leader of high level global business missions seeking business & investment opportunities. His delegations around the world have included mayors, business and university executives, urban planners, economists, authors and researchers. John has been covered by the BBC, NYTimes & Wall Street Journal, among other international press (CNN, CBS, NBC, CTV, CBC, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star & various business journals in Asia, Europe & the Americas). John is a Board Director of several organizations and President of the ICF Foundation (ICFF) and recently joined the faculty of the Institute without Borders (George Brown College) as the Smart Cities Expert in Residence.

Jordan Yee

Student Design Strategist

Jordan is enthusiastic about urban patterns, efficiency and architecture and curiosity and is a socially conscious civic-minded contributor to the communities around him. With an undergraduate degree in Human Kinetics and additional courses in user experience design, social sciences, health, fitness and cultural geography, he brings diverse ideas and questions to the conversation. As a Design Strategist, he brings a combination of providing diagnostic and unseen perspectives though team provocation and pattern mapping.

From his work on the Ethical Smart City Project, Jordan believes that the application of ethical solutions is possible for all cities; regardless of technological maturity, even in its absence.

Maddy Lawrence

Student Design Strategist

Madalynne is a community development enthusiast and pursued a number of volunteer opportunities that inspired her academic journey. While she completed an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a Minor in Social Sciences of Health, she was involved in a range of research activities. Her interests include the built environment’s impact on individual and collective wellbeing, the development of community services and the interplay between the two. As a Design Strategist, Maddy brings a balance between systems thinking and detail-oriented work, responsive designs, clear communication, and plenty of empathy.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project she believes that to create truly resilient communities, a city must first understand what makes them unique and provide a platform to tap into their strengths.

Max Thomson

Student Design Strategist

Max studied English and History and worked in fundraising, marketing and video production for a variety of organizations. He likes working on small flexible teams that are tackling interesting problems with alternative solutions. He is creative by nature, and believes that playfulness is one of the keys to success. He enjoys collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders, supporting their visions from design to delivery. As a Design Strategist, Max brings a mix of clarity, ideation and optimism to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

From his work on the Ethical Smart City Project he believes communities have to truly understand their challenges before deciding on a technological solution.

Nitesh Salwan

Student Design Strategist

Having graduated as an architect in 2015 and practicing for four years in India, working on projects of scales and natures ranging from residential interior design to mass-transit architecture, Nitesh has had a fair share of opportunities and challenges that have helped inform his interest in multi-disciplinary outlook towards design. Nitesh looks at the world with a lens of optimism and a filter of possibilities. As a Design Strategist, Nitesh brings a bird's eye perspective to complex design problems along with a knack of finding solutions to the minutest level of detail.

From his work on the Ethical Smart City Project he believes that being technologically advanced is not the only way to be smart. With a human-centered approach, even rudimentary can be smart too.

Samira Matan

Student Design Strategist

Samira is a sociocultural anthropologist, empowered with the experience of ethnographic research in medical anthropology. Through her interests in social justice issues, Samira is dedicated to helping create a more inclusive world. As a Design Strategist, Samira brings a perspective that aims to address the root causes of complex problems using a blend of empathy, research, collaboration, and design.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project she believes that people matter. Their needs, experiences, and values. People make up communities and communities make up cities, therefore people cannot be erased from cities no matter how smart they are.

Tanya Goyal

Student Design Strategist

Tanya Goyal is a design enthusiast. She has always been drawn to the arts and the process of creation. She enjoys exploring diverse ways of self-expression, and finds great inspiration in the creations of others. As a Design Strategist, Tanya brings an understanding of people, culture and relationships to craft innovative products and services.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project she believes that cities should be citizen-centric. It shouldn't be driven by technocrats and have a bottom's up approach in solving the problems of the city.

Rosanne Sauz

Student Design Strategist

Rosanne started her career in Information Technology as a SAP consultant. After 5 years in the role, she moved to an agribusiness company as a business analyst supporting commercial processes in Asia. It is in this role that she was immersed in business operations. After which she moved to Accenture and joined the business development team as an SAP expert. As a Design Strategist, Rosanne brings a positive attitude to getting clarity on ambiguous situations, confidence in understanding the systems behind complex problems, and hope of what design can do.

From her work on the Ethical Smart City Project she believes that understanding the right problems lead to relevant solutions.