UTC: Affordable Housing Technologies and Sustainable Innovation Communities

Global Urban Development (GUD), Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization (CSU), Cornell Tech, and Shibumi International are collaborating with the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) and its World Urban Campaign (WUC) to organize an Urban Thinkers Campus, and with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction to organize a UNDRR Learning Lab, taking place at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City on Friday and Saturday, November 11-12, 2022, with the theme of Affordable Housing Technologies and Sustainable Innovation Communities.

Participants will highlight their ideas and experiences with designing and implementing sustainable innovations along four main pillars:

1) New Technologies, Materials, and Methods for Sustainable Urban Construction and Development;

2) Sustainable Innovation Zones and Communities;

3) Policy, Strategy, Financial, Legal, Workforce, Regulatory, and Implementation Challenges; and

4) Sustainable Building Design.

This Urban Thinkers Campus and Learning Lab will be both in-person and online via Zoom. All registrants will receive the Zoom link by email. During the morning online program from 9 am to 12 pm, all speakers will be virtual. During the afternoon in-person program from 1 pm to 5 pm, all speakers will be at Cornell Tech.

Sri Husnaini Sofjan, Senior Program Administrator and Strategist, Huairou Commission, Co-Chair, UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign Steering Committee, and GUD Advisory Board Member will be a panelist during the session titled ‘Roundtable on New Technologies, Materials, and Methods; and Financial, Policy, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges’ at 2:00 PM-3:30 PM on November 11.

For more information and program schedule: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/affordable-housing-technologies-and-sustainable-innovation-communities-tickets-439055616167

Zoom Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87403449077