The Urban Big Data Centre is pleased to invite you to a free seminar with Michael Keith, Director of COMPAS, Co-ordinator of Urban Transformations (The ESRC portfolio of investments and research on cities), and Co-Director of the University of Oxford Future of Cities programme.

The seminar will take place on Monday 15th May, 11am - 12pm. A buffet lunch with networking opportunities will be provided following the talk.

The Future of the Future City? The Sustainable Metropolis and the Possibility of an Interdisciplinary Urbanism

Michael Keith, University of Oxford 

Controlling, dreaming, predicting and making the future of the city has been the focus of scholarly investigation, artistic visions and technocratic aspiration for many centuries. But in the contemporary moment we see a proliferation in the number of claims that are made about how we measure the future city, how we make visible its form and shape its settlement. In this talk I shall consider the historical contingency of claims making around urban futures but also the manner in which might engage with its deterministic dimensions, emergent forms and ethical dilemmas. The talk will consider the promise (and promises) of attempts to make visible the urban as a ‘lab’ or ‘observatory’ through which we might ‘see like a city’. The talk will consider the concerns, opportunities and limits of such an urbanism to address the realities of the 21st century metropolis and how such work might nuance an interdisciplinary scholarly register.

This event will be held at the the University of Glasgow's Sir Alwyn Williams Building (see Google Map location here) and more information can be found on the UBDC website.

Registration is available via Eventbrite and is necessary due to limited space and for catering arrangements.

We hope you can join us.

Sincerely,

Keith Maynard
SASNet Project Administrator
Urban Big Data Centre
Tel: +44(0)141 330 2764
[email protected]

Michael Keith: The Future of the Future City

Seminar hosted by the Urban Big Data Centre/SASNet

Monday, 15th May 2017
11:00am - 12:00pm

Sir Alwyn Williams Building (Level 5),  University of Glasgow,
G12 8QN  (Google Map here)

Register Here