09:30 am
Tue Mar 17

CANCELLED - Making Cities Antifragile to Face Unknown Unknowns (OFFICIAL)

JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd Street, Austin, TX, 78701
0.61km W

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Speakers

David Kilcullen

Cordillera Applications Group

Christine Morris

City of Norfolk, Virginia

Allan Shearer

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

Janneth Vargas Pedraza

Cordillera Applications Group

A Virginia-based city resilience chief, an Australian-American terrorism expert, a Colombian crime analyst, and a UT Austin urban design professor discuss their collaboration on a project that combines handheld tech, the science of antifragility, and flows of people, things, energy, and information through cities. Motivated by experiences with war, crime, and urban social and climatic stresses, they seek to detect “disturbances in the force” to reduce threats from agents such as mass shooters and terrorists and from disastrous events. Melding diverse perspectives and emerging technologies, their goal is early detection, rapid response, system-based evolution of cities to save lives. The team explains progress so far, next steps, challenges and opportunities for their design-based approach.

Primary Entry: Platinum Badge, Interactive Badge

Secondary Entry: Music Badge, Film Badge

Format: Panel

Event Type: Session

Track: Design

Level: Beginner