The 2009 conference brought together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, environmental scientists, politicians and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.
Harvard University President Drew Faust, Lincoln Professor of History.
Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston.
Moderator: Sanford Kwinter, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Speakers: Lawrence Buell, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences ; Richard T. T. Forman, Harvard Graduate School of Design ; Ed Glaeser, Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government; Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health ; Toshiko Mori, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Donald Swearer, Harvard Divinity School. Moderator: Alex Krieger.
Bill Dunster, ZEDfactory, London. Respondent: Antoine Picon, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Respondent: Charles Waldheim, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Speakers: Michelle Addington, Yale School of Architecture ; Dorothée Imbert, Harvard Graduate School of Design ; Mitchell Joachim, Columbia University; Nina-Marie Lister, pLandform and Ryerson University. Moderator: Margaret Crawford, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Speakers: Pierre Bélanger, University of Toronto ; Dilip da Cunha, Mathur/da Cunha, Parsons School of Design ; Herbert Dreiseitl, Atelier Dreiseitl Waterscapes, Berlin; Anuradha Mathur, Mathur/da Cunha, University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Moderator: Niall Kirkwood, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Speakers: Andrés Duany, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company; William J. Mitchell, MIT; Federico Parolotto, MIC, Milan ; Niels Schulz, Imperial College London and International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. Moderator: Richard Sommer, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Speakers: Stefano Boeri, Architect, Milan ; Walter Hood, University of California, Berkeley; Susannah Hagan, R/E/D and University of Brighton ; Wooyoung Kimm, Sungkyunkwan University and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Moderator: Spiro Pollalis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Speakers: Iñaki Ábalos, Ábalos + Sentikiewicz Arquitectos and Harvard Graduate School of Design ; Mahadev Raman, Arup, NY and Columbia University; Matthias Schuler, Transsolar and Harvard Graduate School of Design ; Ian Taylor, Feilden Clegg Bradley. Moderator: Christoph Reinhart, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Speakers: John Bela, Rebar; Gareth Doherty, Harvard Graduate School of Design ; Susan Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design ; Chuck Hoberman, Hoberman Associates ; Chris Reed, Stoss Landscape Urbanism and Harvard Graduate School of Design; Daniel Schrag, Harvard University Center for the Environment; Thomas Schroepfer, Harvard Graduate School of Design ; Sissel Tolaas, RE_searchLab, Berlin; Christian Werthmann, Harvard Graduate School of Design ; Kongjian Yu, Turenscape and Peking University. Moderator: Jerold Kayden, Harvard Graduate School of Design.