Camilla Ween, Transport for London, Loeb Fellow 08 will talk about two major projects she is working on, the Upper Lea Valley Masterplan and White City Masterplan.

Camilla is an architect/planner working on large scale masterplans in London, advising the Mayor on behalf of Transport for London on the implications of land use planning. These are strategic growth areas, often large (up to 300 acres), all with complex constraints in terms of transport infrastructure, physical barriers, existing uses and the challenge of achieving mixed use development, that is sustainable and in conformity with London's spatial development plan, the London Plan.

Camilla is passionate about making cities that are sustainable, that have high quality public transport infrastructure including pedestrian and cycle networks and have public spaces that are conducive to citizenship and inclusive for all. This means a strong emphasis on high quality urban design, innovative solutions to water and waste management, food production and biodiversity, and new approaches to energy supply.

She is also engaged in sustainability issues in Ghana. Before joining TfL in 2001 she worked on promoting sustainable transport projects for London, and prior to that she worked for Eurotunnel and the National Trust, after 10 years in her own architectural practice.

Co-sponsored by HUPO and UPD

For event details contact: Sally Young (syoung@gsd.harvard.edu)

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Evelyn Friedman, Chief of Housing and Director of the Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston

Sponsored by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

For more information visit: Joint Center for Housing Studies event calendar

For event details contact: Angela Flynn (angela_flynn@harvard.edu)

Biomimicry is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies--new ways of living--that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul. Biomimics around the world are learning to grow food like a prairie, cool buildings like a termite, harness energy like a leaf, create color like a peacock, compute like a cell, and run a business like a redwood forest. These bio-inspired designs are elegant, functional, and life sustaining. Besides helping our species earn a longer stay on the planet, biomimicry has the potential to change the way we view and value non-human nature. It encourages us to view nature not as a source of goods, but as a mentor, a source of wisdom.

In this special tribute to Bill Valentine, Janine Benyus, the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, will highlight the Biomimicry Guild's exciting alliance with HOK, which has embraced biomimicry as one of the most important tools used by their designers to create built environments in partnership with nature.

For more information visit: Biomimicry Guild

For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Panelists
Suzanne Berger, Political Science, MIT
Frank Dobbin, Sociology, Harvard
Niall Ferguson, History, Harvard

Moderated by
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School

Science and Democracy, a lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised benefits or our era's most salient scientific and technological breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay publics, and policy institutions.

Organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Graduate School of Design, and Harvard University Center for the Environment

For more information visit: Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University

For event details contact: Lisa Matthews (lisa_matthews@harvard.edu)

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Bruce Marks, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America

Sponsored by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

For more information visit: Joint Center for Housing Studies event calendar

For event details contact: Angela Flynn (angela_flynn@harvard.edu)