Envisioning Urban Futures

As part of The Long View Project, the NC State Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs and the NC State University Libraries invite you to explore cities of the near and distant future. Writers, artists and experts from across disciplines describe possible urban futures. Each expert will outline the future that they think is most likely–a business as usual future–and then also the better future toward which they are working. In thinking about those better futures, scholars will consider beauty, sustainability, and livability, among other features. Throughout these presentations a focus will be placed on the recognition that the human story is embedded in the broader story of the living world, one part of a bigger whole.

This event will feature a series of short, TED-style talks, as well as poster presentations by faculty, students and staff from around the world at the messy interface between cutting edge research and big picture thinking. There will also be food and drink, music and artistic interpretations of envisioned urban futures. (Artists working in all forms of media are encouraged to contribute.)

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