MIT FUTURE CITIES HANDS-ON WORKSHOP

For the first time in Hong Kong, MIT Professional Education brings its expert faculty to help professionals innovate beyond the future, the MIT way.  Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the mind and hand learning from MIT faculty at EMTECH Hong Kong.

Cities in the 21st century will account for nearly 90% of global population growth, 80% of wealth creation, and 60% of total energy consumption. The building of new infrastructures coupled with a dramatic reduction in resource consumption can improve the livability of dense cities such as Hong Kong, and around the world.  To address this challenge, MIT Professional Education brings the "essence" of the popular on campus Beyond Smart Cities course to Hong Kong for the very first time.  The one-day immersive workshop will explore holistic models for high-performance urban living through lectures and integrated group exercises, and is led exclusively by MIT experts Dr. Kent Larson and Dr. Ryan Chin at EMTECH Hong Kong.

 

We invite you to join us in this exciting workshop in Hong Kong on June 6, 2016!

 

Workshop Schedule (tentative):

8:30-8:45 MIT Professional Education Opening Introduction – Bhaskar Pant

8:45-9:00 Course Introduction

9:00-10:00 “Beyond Smart Cities: Urban Mobility, Housing, Environmental, Energy, and Food Challenges in Cities” – Kent Larson and Ryan Chin

10:00-11:00 “Urban Mobility Systems:  Electric, Shared-Use, Autonomous City Fleets” – Ryan Chin

11:00-noon “Urban Housing Systems: Building Energy Efficiency, Transformable Micro-apartments, Live/Work Space, co-working” – Kent Larson

Noon-12:45 Lunch

1:00-2:00 “CityScope: Big Data and Urban Analytics” – Kent Larson

2:00-3:00 “Urban Ventures in Hong Kong” – TBD

3:00-3:30 Introduction to Group Exercise

3:30-4:45 Group Exercise

4:45-5:30 Review and Critique from faculty

5:30-6:00 Final Summary and Certificate hand out

6:15- Workshop Adjourned

 

Beyond Smart Cities Workshop

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a great success in Taiwan, January 2016

Kent Larson

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Faculty Director Kent Larson speaks at an event

The Persuasive Electric Vehicle

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built by Kent Larson’s group, showcased at CES 2016

Beyond Smart Cities Workshop

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Faculty provide insight and input during the group exercises

PhD Student Michael Lin

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with the CityScience Initiative project at the Media Lab

WHY MIT PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

 

MIT Professional Education delivers timely, relevant programs to a global audience of scientists, engineers, technicians, managers, consultants, and others from industry, government, the military, non-profit, and academia. The MIT Professional Education mission is to provide a gateway to renowned MIT research, knowledge and expertise for those engaged in science and technology worldwide, through advanced education programs designed for working professionals. The programs are delivered by MIT faculty and promote technical excellence through ongoing educational engagement with communities of practice. Under the leadership of the School of Engineering, MIT Professional Education supports the development of creative leaders equipped to address complex problems.

For more information visit http://web.mit.edu/professional.