AGENDA - MIT Metro Lab First Annual Conference

“UNDERSTANDING THE METRO GAP”. MIT Metro Lab First Annual Conference
Saturday April 11th from 9:00 AM to 4.30 PM –105 Massachusetts Ave., Building 9, Room 9-450 - MIT
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PROGRAM
9.00
9.15
Sponsored by
DSC
BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
Prof. Bish Sanyal – Welcome Notes
Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning. Director, Special Program for Urban and
Regional Studies (SPURS) and Humphrey Program, Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), MIT
Arch. Gabriel Lanfranchi – Presenting the MIT Metro Lab
SPURS Fellow and Founder, MIT Metro Lab, DUSP, MIT
9.30
METRO at MIT
Moderated by Planner Lily Baum Pollans, PhD candidate, DUSP, MIT
Prof. Albert Saiz – Metropolitan Housing Markets
MIT Center for Real Estate
Prof. John E. Fernandez – Urban Metabolism and City Typologies
MIT Urban Metabolism Group
Prof. Jinhua Zhao – Challenges for Metropolitan Transit Systems
MIT Transit Lab
Dr. Thomas Chupein – The J-PAL Urban Services Initiative
MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
10.45
COFFEE BREAK
11.00
METRO: a View from the field
Moderated by Planner David Lee Newsome, Master in City Planning candidate, DUSP, MIT
Arch. Eduardo Rojas – Governing the Metropolis
University of Pennsylvania
Arch. Pedro Ortiz – Matrix Metropolitan Planning: Madrid and other Metropolitan Areas.
Senior IGO's consultant (EU, IDB, ADB, WB, UNCRD, CAF)
Prof. Antonella Contin – Towards Metropolitan Architecture
Politecnico di Milano
12.00
METRO: an Institutional perspective
Moderated by Yu-Hung Hong, Director Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab
Lic. Sebastian Fernandez – Rethinking Housing in Mexico at a Large Scale
Director, Infonavit, Mexico
Dr. Francisca Rojas – Building Metropolitan Governance in Argentina: the IDB's Experience
The Inter-American Development Bank
Planner Victor Vergara –The Metropolitan Imperative and the World Bank Metro Lab
The World Bank
1.00
LUNCH
2.00
WORKSHOP “Co-creating the Metro Lab: Strategizing the next steps”
Moderated by Ofer Lerner, SPURS Associate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
How can the Metro Lab make the biggest impact? Let’s collaboratively identify gaps between
theory and practice where the Metro Lab can make a difference.