Do Cities Dream?: Sustainability and the Integration of Digital Innovations in the Built Environment

Sustainability and the Integration of Digital Innovations in the Built Environment In this talk, our guest speaker, Antoine Picon, will explore how digital technologies can be used to enhance environmental sustainability, improve human well-being, and support the achievement of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, as well as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in urban environments. He will address the social and technical aspects of transforming cities with digital innovations, discuss how these changes impact everyday life and societal habits, and present the concept of cities that are resilient to climate change. Guest Speaker: Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he also serves as the Chair of the PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. With a background in engineering, architecture, and history, Picon focuses on the relationships between architectural and urban spaces, technology, and society from the 18th century to the present. His French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (1988; English translation, 1992) is a synthetic study of the disciplinary deep structures of architecture, garden design, and engineering in the eighteenth century, and their transformations as new issues of territorial management and infrastructure-systems planning were confronted. Whereas Claude Perrault (1613-1688) ou la Curiosité d’un classique (1988) traces the origin of these changes at the end of the seventeenth century, L’Invention de l’Ingénieur Moderne, L’Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747- 1851 (1992) envisages their full development from the mid-eighteenth century to the 1850s by focusing on the changes experienced by the engineering profession. ALL AMERICAN CENTER IN MOSCOW EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE / ВСЕ МЕРОПРИЯТИЯ АМЕРИКАНСКОГО ЦЕНТРА В МОСКВЕ БЕСПЛАТНЫ