October 10 (Fri)
Main Hall
10:00-12:00
Art & Creativity Session
Designing the Creative City
Speakers:
- Christophe Girard (Mayor of the 4th district of Paris / former Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture from 2001 to 2012 / Initiator of "Nuit Blanche" event)
- Karndee Leopairote (Assistant Professor, Thammasat Business School / Executive Director, the Future Innovative Thailand Institute)
- Justine Simons (Head of Culture for the Mayor of London / Chair of the World Cities Cultural Forum)
- Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)
What contributions and significance do art and culture deliver to the formation and energizing of cities? In this session, people from the front lines of innovative city development will talk about what’s happening now in their various projects and discuss the possibilities that lie in store for the future.
13:00-15:00
Art & Creativity Session
Future of Art in the City
Speakers:
- Carsten Nicolai (Artist)
- Seiichi Saito (Rhizomatiks / Creative & Technical Director)
- Gunalan Nadarajan (Dean, The Penny W. Stamps of Art and Design at University of Michigan)
- Marco Kusmawijaya (Director, Rujak Center for Urban Studies)
Unprecedented forms of art and design are starting to emerge in the public spaces of cities. This session will examine these modalities and how they incorporate new technologies and media, while also taking a sneak-peek at the ways they could enhance and vitalize cities in the years ahead.
15:30-17:30
Cross Talk & Closing Session
Speakers:
- Heizo Takenaka (Professor, Keio University / Chairman, Institute for Urban Strategies, The Mori Memorial Foundation / Director, Academyhills)
- Hiroo Ichikawa (Dean, Professional Graduate School of Governance / Studies, Meiji University / Executive Director, The Mori Memorial Foundation)
- Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab)
Group discussion including Program Committee members Heizo Takenaka, Hiroo Ichikawa, Fumio Nanjo, and Joichi Ito, as well as all the speakers.
