Future Cities: Technology, Society and Agencies of Change



11th Dialogue on Science,
September 12 to 14, 2012

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September 12
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08:00

Teaser

Prof. Gerhard Schmitt

08:30

Interviews with participants

Participants of the conference

09:00

Registration of Participants

10:15

Opening of the Conference

Klaus Hug

President of the Foundation

11:00

Chair: Klaus Hug

Will the whole world become a city?

Dieter Laepple

HafenCity University Hamburg

11:45

Chair: Klaus Hug

Science and Technology Foresight on Green Innovation and Future Smart Community Japan

Tomoaki Wada

Technische Universität Tokio

12:45

Lunch

14:00

Chair: Lai Choo Malone-Lee

From in Vitro to in Vivo and vice versa

Marc Angélil

ETH Zurich

14:45

Chair: Lai Choo Malone-Lee

AMHARA Model Town

Franz Oswald

ETH Zurich   

16:00

Chair: Lai Choo Malone-Lee

Urban spectacles, rural spectres

Jane M. Jacobs

University of Edinburgh

16:30

Break

16:45

Chair: Lai Choo Malone-Lee

Digital technologies and contemporary Urbanisation: Between Utopia and Reality

Antoine Picon

Harvard University

18:30

Dinner

20:00

Chair: Dominik Galliker

Public Evening (in German): Sustainable Urban Development in Switzerland

Participants

22:00

Nightcap

06:30

Morning Activity «In the Spirit of the Location»

08:30

Chair: Marc Angélil

Planetary Urbanisation and the Challenge of Sustainable Development

Christian Schmid

ETH Zurich

09:15

Chair: Marc Angélil

Technologies for ZeroEmission Buildings

Hansjürg Leibundgut

ETH Zurich

10:00

Break

10:30

Chair: Marc Angélil

Urbanity and the Abundance of Clean Energies

Ludger Hovestadt

ETH Zurich

11:15

Chair: Marc Angélil

Plenary Discussion with a group of Young Scientist

Professor Christan Schmid, Professor Hansjürg Leibundgut and Professor Ludger Hovestadt

12:15

Lunch

14:00

Chair: Philippe Block

Presentation

Young scientists

17:15

Evening Event on the Titlis

06:30

Morning Activity «In the Spirit of the Location»

08:30

Chair: Christian Schmid

Choosing Density, Adapting Density

Lai Choo Malone-Lee

Staatliche Universität Singapur

09:15

Chair: Christian Schmid

The Politics and Culture of Networked Urban Spaces

Stephen Cairns

University of Edinburgh

10:30

Chair: Christian Schmid

The City as a Proto – Typology

Dirk Hebel

ETH Zurich 

11:15

Chair: Gerhard Schmitt

Round table

The participants

12:30

Closing remarks and Outlook

Klaus Hug

President of the Foundation

12:45

Farewell-Lunch

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