Panel Discussion
Life After Carbon: Imagining the City of the Future
Arizona State University
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
9-10:30 a.m. AZ time, via Zoom
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Malka Older
Faculty associate at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Andrew Dana Hudson
Speculative fiction writer and sustainability researcher
Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry
Founding co-directors of the Land Art Generator
Joey Eschrich
Editor and program manager for the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University
Clark Miller
Director of ASU’s Center for Energy & Society
In "The City in History," Lewis Mumford argued that “The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.” Yet, when we imagine the post-carbon city, we often focus solely on the technological foundations of its future—the streets, the cars, the power and water systems—instead of its forms of living, culture, and creativity. In this webinar, some of today’s most ambitious thinkers about the future of techno-human societies will share their insights into how we can go further to systematically explore what it might mean to be human inhabitants of divergent technological futures, and how we can learn from those explorations to better navigate the paths from the present toward futures that might be worth inhabiting.
Series sponsored by:
Center for Energy & Society
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies Center
Sustainable Cities Network
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
9-10:30 a.m. AZ time, via Zoom