The Fifteen Minute City

Programme

This, the first Joint AoU-UDG Online Symposium, will explore how the concept of a Fifteen  Minute City is being articulated globally alongside other responses to the pandemic, and more. With an exciting and packed programme of events and guest speakers, over the 3 days, this symposium promises to be inspiring and re-energising.

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Wednesday 16 September

OPEN TO ALL : WELCOME + NETWORKING
17:45 Waiting room opens
18:00

WELCOME + INTRODUCTION

Leo Hammond  Urban Design Group, Chair
Tony Reddy  Academy of Urbanism, Chair

18:15 MEET + NETWORKING
19:15

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

Leo Hammond  Urban Design Group, Chair
Tony Reddy  The Academy of Urbanism, Chair

19:30 Close

 

Thursday 17 September

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
09:45 Waiting room opens
10:00

WELCOME
Tony Reddy  The Academy of Urbanism, Chair
Katja Stille  Urban Design Group, Incoming Chair

10:10

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
FACILITATING URBAN PROXIMITY - REVISITING THE BASICS
Arun Jain  Chief Urban Designer and Principal Planner, City of Bellevue, Washington  

Q+A / Discussion

10:45 Break
5 MINUTES OF FAME: FIFTEEN MINUTE CITIES, TOWNS + NEIGHBOURHOODS
11:00

WELCOME BACK
Katja Stille  Urban Design Group, Incoming Chair

11:05

THE ALTERNATIVE FIFTEEN MINUTE CITY : CASE STUDIES

IS LONDON ALREADY A FIFTEEN MINUTE CITY?
Monika Jain  Transport for London, Principal Planner + Greater London Authority, Senior Strategic Planner 
Shivani Bhatnagar  Transport for London, City Planner (Case Making)

MEDIEVAL LEEDS: a 15 minute city?
Andy Graham  TheUrbanGlow Design & Heritage Ltd

BRASILIA'S NEIGHBOURHOOD UNIT: a reflection on local needs
Pauline Niesseron  Greater London Authority, Grenfell Response Policy and Programme Manager

Q+A / Discussion

11:30

STREETS + MOVEMENT

INTEGRATING PROPERTY, TRAVEL AND ICT: Pullman standard public transport
Brian Q Love  Connected Cities

EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT
+ LAUNCH OF THE STREET IMPROVEMENT MANUAL II
Saskia Huizinga  Project Centre 

15 MINUTE MOBILITY
Christopher Martin  Urban Movement, Co-founding Director

Q+A / Discussion

12.00 Break
12:15

MORE THAN JUST HOUSING

THE LOW ROAD TO 15 MINUTES: putting work into neighbourhoods
Neil Murphy  TOWN, Founding Director

WHO'S DOING WHAT? working from home and the 15 minute city
Frances Holliss  Workhome Project

WHY THE 15 MINUTE CITY NEEDS PUBLIC SPACE AT ITS HEART
Richard Eastham  Feria Urbanism, Founding Director
Jennie Savage  Feria Urbanism, Creative Director

Q+A / Discussion

12:45

THE FIFTEEN MINUTE CITY FOR ALL AGES

ONLY A YOUNGER ECONOMY CAN BE LOCALISED
Martina Juvara  URBAN Silence, Director of Master Planning

A HOUSING FACTOR FOR SUSTAINABLE LIFETIME COMMUNITIES
Arthur Acheson  Architect and Civic Planner

RE-IMAGINING OLDER LIVING
Janet Sutherland  Housing, Urbanism + Regeneration Consultant

Q+A / Discussion

13:15 Break
GLOBAL REPONSES TO THE FIFTEEN MINUTE CITY
15:45 Waiting room opens
16:00

WELCOME 
Tony Reddy  The Academy of Urbanism, Chair

CHAIR
Dr Wei Yang  Wei Yang and Partners, Vice President RTPI

 

PARIS: THE FIFTEEN MINUTE CITY
Prof Carlos Moreno  Sorbonne, Paris

EMBEDDING URBAN DESIGN PRINCIPLES INTO PLAN-MAKING PROCESS: how a 15 minute concept has been applied in China
Dr Wei Yang  Wei Yang and Partners, Vice President RTPI

NATIONAL TO CITY TO NEIGHBOURHOOD: can the 15 minute apporach bring about a Net Zero future?
Daisy Narayanan  Sustrans Edinburgh, Director of Urbanism

Q+A 

  CLOSING COMMENTS
Tony Reddy  The Academy of Urbanism, Chair
18:00 Close
FRINGE EVENT : CO-CREATION AND DESIGN IN THE MIDDLE EAST
18:30

WELCOME
Tony Reddy  The Academy of Urbanism, Chair
Katja Stille  Urban Design Group, Incoming Chair

CHAIR
Husam AlWaer  University of Dundee

 

A STORY FROM THE EAST
Husam AlWaer  University of Dundee

AL ZA'ATARI REFUGEE CAMP: an enforced Fifteen Minute City

MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
Kilian Kleinschmidt  IPA / switxboard GmbH 

SHAPING A COMMUNITY
Husam AlWaer  University of Dundee 

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
Karen Fisher  University of Washington

THE FOUNTAINS OF AL ZA'ATARI
Margherita Moscardini  artist and cultural anthropologist  

Q+A 

20:00 Close

 

Friday 18 September 

BREAKFAST BRIEFING: WALKING, CYCLING, PUBLIC REALM - THE STATE OF THE ART
07:50 Waiting room opens
08:00 WELCOME + CHAIR
Paul Reynolds  Urben, Director
 

STREET DESIGN STANDARDS CURRENT AND WITHDRAWN
+ INTRO TO STREET IMPROVEMENT MANUAL
Robert Huxford  Urban Design Group, Director

STREET IMPROVEMENT MANUAL: SLOW STREET PRINCIPLES
David McKenna  Street Spirit Design

Q+A

TRANSFORMING STREETSPACE
Laura Georgescu + Gesine Junker  TfL Urban Design

WALKING: PAST AND FUTURE + LAUNCH OF FOOTWAYS
David Harrison + Emma Griffin  London Living Streets

Q+A

09:30 Close
KEYNOTE SPEAKER + 'QUESTION TIME' PANEL
09:45 Waiting room opens
10:00 WELCOME + CHAIR
Leo Hammond  Urban Design Group, Chair
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
COVID AND MELBOURNE THE 5K CITY
Professor Rob Adams  City Design, Melbourne, General Manager

Q+A / Discussion

11:00

QUESTION TIME

Liane Hartley  Director, Mend + Founder, Urbanistas

Pierfrancesco Maran  Deputy Mayor Milan

Caroline Russell  Assembly Member London, Leader of City Hall Greens

Jason Taylor  Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Advisor Urban Policy

Lord Matthew Taylor  Mayfield Market Town 

12:00 Break
KEYNOTE SPEAKER + FUTURE URBANISTS
13:45 Waiting room opens
14:00 WELCOME + CHAIR
Tony Reddy  The Academy of Urbanism, Chair
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
TRANSFORMING A CITY
Anuela Ristani  Deputy Mayor of Tirana, Albania

Q+A / Discussion

15:00

VISIONS OF 2040: FUTURE URBANISTS 

Jas Atwal  The Academy of Urbanism, Director

Young urbanists share their thoughts, ideas and hope for their future neighbourhoods

Q+A / Discussion

LISTENING TO YOUNG LONDERS ON KEEPING ACTIVE: video screening
Rachel Toms  Public Health England

HASELMERE HIGH STREET: rebuilding places better after the COVID pandemic
Robert Thomas  PRIAN Public Realm

16:15

CLOSING COMMENTS

Katja Stille  Urban Design Group, Incoming Chair
Tony Reddy  The Academy of Urbanism, Chair

FRINGE EVENT:  EVENING SOCIAL
18:45 Waiting room opens
19:00

PLANDEMINIUM
Rob Cowan  author of the Dictionary of Urbanism
Our urban pub quiz (byo)

20:30 Close

  

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