Crises are Avoidable
Let’s not rebuild or even maintain the counter-productive water systems that waste water, waste energy and compromise human health. Let’s not design our cities to have adversarial relationships with the natural resources that sustain life. At a time in history when the world is experiencing unprecedented urban population growth, radical changes in climate, and natural resource inequality and depletion, designers, engineers and builders need to holistically re-envision how our cities are designed in order to remedy existing obsolete and counter-productive urban design models.
These urban problems mark unprecedented opportunities for re-evaluation: to conceive and build new types of ecological architecture and infrastructure, and envision new forms of leadership to orchestrate the implementation of these new systems. Panelists will discuss new ways to collaborate in public/private partnerships and how to tackle environmental and social challenges before the Great Lakes (and the world) reach a critical tipping point beyond which dangerous resource depletion becomes unstoppable.
