Collective(s) Series: Cities and City Centers of the Future

The role of cities is changing. And while the city center enjoys a rebirth of purpose and potential, we have a unique opportunity to shape our realities, but must we act now. In an increasingly urbanized world, the beating heart of the metropolis is a not only a place of economic growth, innovation, culture, and creativity, but one of crime and vulnerability as well. Yet, if our city centers are reimagined and reinvigorated, they can be part of a better and more inclusive society, a place where work and community life unite harmoniously. What is this new “life in common” we need? And what aspects of our cities can bring that vision to life?

How do we rethink the planning, development, and management of cities? And, do data-driven technologies play a role in the way we understand, design, and ultimately inhabit cities and city centers of the future? How can we create the economic and social policy groundwork to build upon? How do we use our creativity to ensure that the city and the human soul unite and enrich each other? How do we use creativity to spur activism and engagement? What does the new city center look like?

In this episode of the Collective(s) Summer Series, we gather an exciting group of urban dreamers. They include Charles Landry, the author of The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators, and urban planner Ariadne dos Santos Daher, who has worked extensively on city projects in South and Central America, and Sara Fenske Bahat, the current interim CEO of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, previously having worked in NYC under then mayor Michael Bloomberg.

About DIALOGUE's Summer Series:

Are you a leader who influences change in your industry? Are you interested in exploring the pillars of our future society and culture through meaningful dialogue? Have you been thinking about the implications of the pandemic and the changes in how we live, how we work, and how we relate to and with one another?

The DIALOGUE Collective(s) Summer Series is a program of fireside chats highlighting the foremost thinking across sectors across five key topics:

1. Future of Care Anywhere - June 2022

2. Cities and City Centers of the Future - July 2022

3. Aesthetics, Healing & Mental Health - August 2022

4. Living: The Future of Work - August 2022

5. Digital to Physical: Engagement & Experience in Care - September 2022

Collective(s) is an invite-only, salon-based think tank bringing together the foremost thinking across sectors to help you create bigger ideas, hone your thought leadership, and grow your capacity as a leader with other brilliant minds.

This series of virtual sessions are neither a webinar or a conference, but rather a space for dialogue, each of these five, 80-min events is hosted by the DIALOGUE team and founder, Rimma Boshernitsan, and takes the form of group dialogue followed by an extended Q&A – all in an intimate environment, carefully curated to maximize engagement.

• Be part of the conversation that looks at intersections of industries with some of the world’s top leaders; expand your thinking and influence
• Engage your curiosity to transform your industry or create change in your organization
• Ask questions; become a more informed leader; elevate your thought-leadership

If you’re an organizational leader in a traditional or non-traditional environment who is leading change, you won’t want to miss this.

Spaces are very limited. Please reserve your spot early. Participants can register for more than one session.

About DIALOGUE:

DIALOGUE is a strategy advisory. We help leaders make sense of the cross-sector forces acting on their business and shape them into meaningful action for growth. https://in-dialogue.co/