Fab City Symposium
The Fab City Symposium will take place on the 7th of July at the Disseny Hub Barcelona. It is a one-day event focused on the principles, applications and implications of digital fabrication. With special focus on rethinking the role of technology, policy and society in the development of Self-Sufficiency strategies for productive cities.
It consists of four sessions of keynotes and debates around:
– Advanced research on Digital Fabrication
– The role of industry and corporations in this moment of change
– The potential social impact of new technologies
– The governance of innovation and technology in future cities
Xavier Trias, Mayor of the City of Barcelona will lead the closing ceremony with other mayors from major cities of the world in participation.
The speaker list includes:
Gituro Wainaina
Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat, Kenya
Ellen MacArthur
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira
Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General for UN-Habitat
Blair Evans
Director, Incite Focus. Practitioner and instructor in Digital Fabrication and Permaculture
Thorsteinn I. Sigfusson
Director General of the Innovation Center Iceland
William McDonough (Video)
Cradle to Cradle and Housing – McDonough Innovation
Bruce Sterling
Science Fiction author, journalist, editor and critic
Paul Eremenko
Director, Project Ara, Advanced Technology & Projects from Google
Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms
Xavier Trias
Mayor of Barcelona
Massimo Banzi
Co-Founder of Arduino
Jeremy Rifkin (Video)
Economic and social theorist, writer, political advisor and activist
Vicente Guallart
Chief Architect of the City of Barcelona
Xavier De Kestelier
Partner, Specialist Modelling Group at Foster + Partners
Yizhi “Patrick” Cai
Founding Executive Director, Edinburgh Genome Foundry
Achim Menges
Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Design, University of Stuttgart
Hannah Jones
Chief Sustainability Officer & VP of the Innovation Accelerator at Nike
Alastair Parvin
Co-founder WikiHouse. Architectural & strategic designer with 00 London. Author.
Vincent Loubière
Innovation Manager at Airbus
Bert Crenca
Visual Artist, Performance Artist, and Musician
Nadeem Mazen
CEO nimblebot.com, co-founder dangerawesome.co, Cambridge City Councillor