Join the Global Engagement Seminar: Finding Our Future City - Health, Housing, and Humanity on Wednesday, February 5 from 7:00-8:00PM for a talk and Q&A presentation by Itai Palti on Representing the Human Experience: Our voice in the People-Place Dialogue.
We'll explore the vital role of representing the needs and aspirations of people in building environments that resonate with people. By dissecting current modes of production and examining practical strategies, this talk illuminates how to reinfuse identity, belonging and empathy into our cities, fostering spaces that inspire and nurture connection to place and one another.
Everyone is welcome - no registration required!
Itai Palti is a practicing architect, researcher, and multidisciplinary artist focusing on the relationship between people and place. He is the Founder of The Centre for Conscious Design, and Director of Hume – a Science-Informed architecture and urban design practice. In 2015, Itai founded the Conscious Cities movement; a new field of research and practice for building environments that are aware and responsive, using data analysis, AI, tech, and science-informed design. For his work in advancing changes in the design profession, he was named by Metropolis Magazine as one of 2020's 'Game Changers' in transformative ideas in Health, Social Justice, Technology, and Urbanism. Itai carries out thought leadership and advisory roles in a number of other research and policy bodies, contributing to strategies that focus on systems change and the promotion of design as a socially conscious profession. His work and writing has been featured internationally and he is a regular speaker at events focused on the built environment and human impact.
Location Information
200 University Avenue West
Room 208
Waterloo, ON, CA N2L 3G1
