|
T H E S O C I E T Y F O R C O L L E G E A N D U N I V E R S I T Y P L A N N I N G ' S
T H I R T Y - S E V E N T H A N N U A L, I N T E R N A T I O N A L, C O N F E R E N C E A N D E X P O 
|
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
July 13–17, San Diego, CA USA
|
|
|
|
Plenary Sessions
Sunday, July 14, 2002
6:00 pm7:30 pm
Opening Plenary Session
Good Growth: A Building Like a Tree, a Campus Like a Forest
Presenter: William McDonough, Founding Principal of William McDonough +Partners Architecture and Community Design and McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
We are at a defining strategic moment in history where many untoward consequences of modern life have become apparent to any thinking person. Every day we hear more distressing news about serious environmental, social and economic problems we have created or are anticipating. The litany is familiar: climate change, persistent toxification, endocrine disruption, heavy metal contamination; atmospheric ozone, highway congestion, water pollution, eco-racism and so on. In this context most growth is often seen as undesirable because it perpetuates a potentially damaging agenda. William McDonough will describe a positive design strategy based on the concept that growth, when it is economically, ecologically and socially intelligent, can be desirable. He will illustrate this with real examples of projects that integrate natures fecundity safely into human production ranging in scale from molecules to products to buildings to corporate and academic campuses to communities to cities to states and to countries.
In 1996 William McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nations highest environmental award, and in 1999 was hailed by Time as a Hero for the Planet stating that his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy thatin practical and demonstrable waysis changing the design of the world. He served as the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia where he remains as distinguished lecturer. He is the A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and Alumni Research Professor at the University of Virginias Darden School of Business.
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Noon2:00 pm
Closing Plenary Session
Building Living Laboratories of the Future
Presenter: Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California - San Diego
Roughly two and a half years after California's Governor Davis called for the creation of four new Institutes of Science and Innovation, Calit2 is up and running. It pulls together over two hundred faculty from multiple universities, cutting across all existing boundaries of departments, schools, and campuses. There are over fifty industrial partners and many state and federal agencies providing support. One of the major activities has been the design of two new buildings for the UCSD and UCI campuses, which create interdisciplinary team space and major shared laboratories. With a theme of discovering the future of the internet, Calit2 is creating a series of Living Laboratories of the Future on campus, in the community, and in remote rural areas. All of this turns "business as usual" university planning on its head and has provided the two UC campuses with an experimental view of possible alternatives.
Larry Smarr was the founder and 15-year director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the National Computational Science Alliance. The Alliance IS comprised of over fifty universities, government labs, and corporations linked with NCSA in a national-scale virtual enterprise to prototype the information infrastructure of the 21st Century. His views on the Internet, supercomputers, and computational science have been quoted widely in a variety of publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Time. He serves on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee to the Director, NIH, and on the NASA Advisory Council to the NASA Administrator.
|
311 Maynard Street · Ann Arbor, MI 48104 · phone: 734.998.7832 · fax: 734.998.6532 · email: info@scup.org
|
