Shaping Spaces: Community, Sustainability, AI, and Justice

Activity: Talk or presentation typesOral presentation

Description

Session: PRESENTATION | Shaping Spaces: Community, Sustainability, AI, and Justice

A panel of project presentations from speakers who develop new approaches in fostering more sustainable and equitable urban futures by mobilizing spatial justice, data-driven and computational methodologies, as well as citizen participation.

University of Montreal’s Shin Koseki will present his work on spatial justice and sustainability within and beyond cities, in which he specifically leverages computational approaches and citizen participation to enhance urban resilience and democratic decision-making.

Prof. Mel Woods, Chair of Creative Intelligence at the University of Dundee, will share insights from her projects on environmental monitoring and citizen science, especially highlighting the role of technology, community involvement and futures thinking in addressing environmental challenges and urban resilience.

Architect and designer of public spaces Kamya Ramachandran will share her work leading the FutureFantastic, an AI Art Festival for Climate Change in Bangalore, India. Via the festival, Kamya channels her extensive experience in community-engaged design to cultivate a dialogue on the pressing issues of climate change among experts, artists, technologists, and audiences.

The session is moderated by Encode Justice Canada, the world’s first and largest youth movement for safe, equitable AI.

Period20 Aug 2024
Event titleMutel Forum 2024: Utopia or Oblivion
Event typeConference
Conference number18
LocationMontreal, Canada, QuebecShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational