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Beijing Sustainable City Wrap-up

9/19/2014

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Our sustainable city workshop is wrapping up this weekend. If you are in town, you're invited to come see the students' projects, which are pretty awesome! The final presentations are taking place at Tsinghua University, up in Haidian 海淀 District. Hope to see folks there!


Dear Friends and Colleagues:

You are warmly invited to attend the final presentations of the joint Tsinghua-Stanford workshop, The Human City: Design for People, on Saturday, September 20 at 2:00 PM, at the Tsinghua University Academy of Art & Design (B413). Project teams will present their work in six topic areas, including food systems, residential energy, electric vehicles, bicycle livelihoods, land use, and cultural preservation.

Through this September workshop, two dozen students from Stanford University and Tsinghua University explored innovative ways to tackle urban challenges, while gaining new perspectives on humanistic city development. Participants represent a wide range of interdisciplinary backgrounds, including urban studies, information art and design, international relations, computer science, and civil and environmental engineering.

Guided by Deland Chan and Kevin Hsu of Stanford University, and Zhiyong Fu of Tsinghua University, multinational student teams engaged directly with Beijing as an urban laboratory for experiential learning, exploring strategies to enhance sustainability and improve the quality of life.

Workshop participants will also present their work at the Smart City Expo, part of Beijing Design Week, from September 25-30. For more information, please visit:

http://humancity.internationalurbanization.org

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Reunited with XuetangX

9/12/2014

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— posted from Beijing

It was a pleasure, such an absolute pleasure, to meet in person with the folks at XuetangX with whom we have been collaborating these many months. It was surreal, amazing, and deeply exciting to sit down at the same table to share a meal. We talked non-stop about education, MOOCs, design, and updated each other about the latest happenings related to e-learning in our respective countries.

We have had periodic Skype chats, and regularly exchange e-mails, but there’s something that feels especially meaningful in having a conversation face-to-face. The irony (of which I am quite aware) is that it is online education--
mediated through flat screens and the world wide web, in the comfort of one’s home, away from the live classroom—that has brought us together.

Such are the oddities of life! But I am feeling particularly joyful today nonetheless.
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Designing the Human City

9/6/2014

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I am heading off to Beijing to lead an urban sustainability workshop with my colleagues Deland Chan and Zhiyong Fu. The workshop is jointly sponsored by Stanford and Tsinghua University. Participants will observe neighborhoods, meet with local experts (in fields ranging from energy efficient architecture to sustainable transportation), and produce an exhibit for the "Smart Cities Expo" portion of Beijing Design Week.

The experience is entitled "The Human City: Design for People" though we're also calling it "Designing the Human City" for short. Follow along with our adventures at:

humancity.internationalurbanization.org

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