We also participate in Projects and Presentations.

FORUMS

2008

Museums and the City: A Creative Combination?

March 2008
Sponsor:  Creative Cities International and The Wilson Center for National Affairs, The New School, New York
Panelists: 

  • Fred Manson, urbanist
  • Frederic Schwartz, architect
  • Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Deputy Director, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution
  • Marc Pachter, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Moderator:  Linda Lees, CCI

A video recording of the panel is available:


2005

Rebuilding Baghdad: “Planning” the Civil Society?

October 2005
Sponsors:  Creative Cities International, Goethe Institute and The Wilson Center for National Affairs, The New School, New York
April 2005
Participants:

  • Benjamin Barber, Director, The Democracy Collaborative
  • Fergus Muir, Head, Architecture, Department of Culture, Media, and Sport, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
  • Paul Kahlfeldt, Kahlfeldt Architekten, Berlin
Moderator:  Marc Pachter, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Featuring excerpts from “Return to the Land of Wonders,” a documentary by filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi.


2001-2004

Memory and the City: Living the Past in the Present

March 2004
Sponsor:  Creative Cities International and the American Institute of Architects, co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute and AIA
The Center for Architecture, AIA, New York
Panelists included:

  • Diane Lewis, architect
  • Susan Szenasy, Metropolis Magazine
  • Ron Schiffman, Professor, Pratt Institute
  • Austin Williams, Chair, Future Visions, London
Moderator:  James Sanders, author, “Celluloid Skyline”


Cities of Destiny: How Do They Achieve Greatness?

October 2003
Sponsor:  Creative Cities International and The Wolfson Center for National Affairs.  Co-sponsors:  AIA and Brooklyn Brewery
The New School, New York
Participants:

  • Rafael Viñoly, architect
  • Fred Manson, urbanist
  • Marc van de Mieroop, Professor, Ancient Near East Studies, Columbia University
Moderator: Marc Pachter, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution


New York Talks to London and Berlin

May 2002
60 Thompson Hotel, New York
Keynote:  Sir Peter Hall, Professor of Planning, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London

Participants: 
London:

  • Will Alsop, architect
  • Fred Manson, former director, Southwark Borough of London
  • Peter Ford, former chairman, London Regional Transport
Berlin:
  • Axel Schultes, architect
  • Michael Moenninger, architecture critic, Die Welt
  • Volker Hassemer, Partner for Berlin
New York:
  • John Belle, architect
  • Alex Garvin, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
  • Paul Goldberger, architecture critic, The New Yorker
  • Anthony Cracchiolo, Director of the Office of Priority Capital Programs, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Moderators: Tony Travers, Head, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Marc Pachter, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Major funding by the Rockefeller Foundation and Deutsche Bank.  Special assistance provided by the Municipal Arts Society


Sustainable Creativity:  Getting Serious About Profound Change

November 2002
New York Academy of Art
Conference sponsored by Creative Cities in collaboration with Metropolis Magazine, and The Privatization of Culture Project, New York University, New York

Participants:

  • Lord Richard Rogers, architect
  • Fred Manson, urbanist
  • Tony Travers, Head, Greater London Group, London School of Economics
  • Teixeira Coelho, University of Sao Paulo
  • Frederic Schwartz, architect
  • Anthony Cracchiolo, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
  • Rocco Compagnone, architect
  • William Wheeler, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  • Stan Eckstut, architect
  • Rowan Moore, Head, Architecture Foundation, London
Support provided by CB Richard Ellis, the Durst Corporation, the Corporation of London, and the Fund for the City of New York


Creative Cities: Renewing New York

October 2001
On the future of Long Island City South: Queens Plaza to Queens West
Conference hosted by P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Sponsor/organizer: The British Council (UKwithNY Festival), Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture, and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Participants included:

  • Charles Landry, author of “The Creative City”
  • Joseph B. Rose, Chairman, NYC Planning Commission
  • Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Principal, Arquitectonica
  • Mary Lea Bandy, Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs, MoMA
  • Hong Yee Lee Krakauer, Executive Director, Queens Council on the Arts
  • Mary Ann Tighe, Insignia/ESG
  • Peter Wilson, Tate Modern
  • Fred Manson, Head, Regeneration and Environment, Southwark Borough Council, London
  • Christopher O. Ward, Chief of Planning and External Affairs, PANY&NJ
  • Raymond Gastil, Executive Director, Van Alen Institute
  • Linda Lees, Director of Cultural Affairs, The British Council
Additional sponsorship provided by Halcrow Consulting Engineers, LCOR, Inc., EHS Partners, Pepsi-Cola, NY Waterway, M&C Saatchi