Title: TEDxNantes; Theme: The City/Utopia&Reality; Participants: Lukas Feireiss, Miguel Aubouy, Carolyn Steel, José Luis de Vincente, Saskia Sassen, Luc Schuiten, Victor Massip, Geoffrey West Massimo Amato, Bliss Browne; Location: La Cité Nantes Event Center; Date: 15.12.2011
This year's TEDxNantes will look into the theme "The City/Utopia&Reality", against the backdrop that demography and sustainable development lead researchers, architects and authorities to think about the city of tomorrow. They think about this challenge, to know how to reconcile high density and urbanization in the cities with environmental concerns (pollution, waste production, energy consumption, etc) and social concerns (poverty, shanty towns, social housing, etc.), all in a global economy context (the importance to be connected to the world through telecommunication and transport infrastructures). What will be the cities of the future: environmental, global, or digitized? Lukas Feireiss is one of the invited speakers alongside with Saskia Sassen, Luic Schuiten and many more.