Cities solving challenges with purpose: from tools to cultures
In this session we will learn from city representatives who are pioneering such new approaches to deliver their missions and will explore to what extent these approaches are transferable to other contexts.
Cities solving challenges with purpose: from tools to cultures
07 Jun 2023, 10:45 – 12:15
Register for online attendance
Wedensday 7 June 2023 | 10:45-12:15 (BST) UK Time
Designing and delivering missions in cities requires city authorities to innovate with new tools and approaches. Emergent practice points to new governance, procurement, data and financial models to deliver missions; as well as the deployment of new tools, such as strategic design, to crowd in stakeholder voices especially those of citizens. In this session we will learn from city representatives who are pioneering such new approaches to deliver their missions and will explore to what extent these approaches are transferable to other contexts.
Meet the panel:
The talk is moderated by Dan Hill, Director, Melbourne School of Design and Professor in Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, in conversation with:
- Bertha Johnson, Deputy City Manager, City of Durham, North Carolina
- Diana Rodriguez Franco, Secretary of Women's Affairs, Bogotà
- Fermin Cerezo, City Innovation Director, Municipality of Valencia
- Nick Kimber, Director of Strategy and Design, London Borough of Camden
More speakers to be announced shortly.
The event is part of the IIPP 2023 Festival: The Entrepreneurial State 2.0. - Rethinking the State in the 21st Century.
Join the conversation on #IIPP_MOIN and #TheEntreprenurialState2.
Director
Melbourne School of Design and Professor in Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
[[{"fid":"14322","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Dan Hill","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Dan Hill","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"400","width":"400","class":"media-element file-small media-wysiwyg-align-left"}}]]Professor Dan Hill is a designer, urbanist, educator and experienced leader at the intersection of design, technology and cities. Dan held the position of Director of Strategic Design for the Swedish Government’s innovation and research agency, Vinnova from 2019 to 2022.
His previous leadership positions have produced innovative, influential teams and projects, ranging across built environment and architecture (two stints at Arup, Future Cities Catapult), education and research (Fabrica, AHO, UCL), government and social innovation (SITRA, Vinnova), and media (BBC, Domus, Monocle). He was one of the Mayor of London’s inaugural Design Advocates, and a Trustee of Participatory City Foundation, and is a founding member of the UN HABITAT Council for Urban Initiatives. Dan’s projects take a holistic approach to multidisciplinary research and design combined with an acute reading of everyday technologies and social infrastructures.
Dan has lived and worked in UK, Australia, Finland, Italy, and Sweden, and developed and delivered city strategy and urban development projects for city governments in Amsterdam, Melbourne, Stockholm, Manchester, Sydney and London, as well as for Alphabet and Lendlease. He has devised and delivered place-based approaches to Swedish and Finnish national innovation strategies. Dan has particular expertise in designing social and cultural infrastructures, in urban contexts such as Melbourne Innovation District, Manchester’s Northern Quarter, Google’s global campuses, and the University of Melbourne campus, and on buildings such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, British Library, UAE Museum of the Future, State Library of Queensland, ACMI, Collingwood Yards, and central library strategies for Melbourne and Sheffield.
Dan has held roles as Professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Visiting Professor of Practice at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Visiting Professor at Design Academy Eindhoven, and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University. He has taught studios and courses at other colleges all over the world. Amidst much published work, in academic journals, books and media, Dan authored the influential book “Dark Matter & Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary” for Strelka Press in 2012 and has been writing about design, technology, cities and culture for over 20 years.
[[{"fid":"14353","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Bertha Johnson","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Bertha Johnson","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"201","width":"201","class":"media-element file-small media-wysiwyg-align-left"}}]]Bertha Johnson is the Deputy City Manager for the City of Durham, North Carolina. In this role, Bertha oversees Durham's operations departments which provide core services to residents. Previously, Bertha oversaw the administrative and support departments for the City, including Audit, Finance, Budget and Management Services, Human Resources, and Equity and Inclusion.
Prior to joining the City in 2005, Bertha served as finance director for the City of Roxboro, N.C. and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Elon University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from North Carolina Central University.
[[{"fid":"14354","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"DIANA RODRÍGUEZ FRANCO","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"DIANA RODRÍGUEZ FRANCO","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"730","width":"730","class":"media-element file-small media-wysiwyg-align-left"}}]]Ms. Rodriguez holds a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in the United States. She graduated in Law and Economy from the Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia.
She has a vast experience as a human rights defender and researcher. As Deputy Director and Researcher at the Center for Law, Justice and Society Studies (Dejusticia) she worked on issues such as citizen participation, forced displacement, access to health and environmental policy.
Secretary for Women’s Affairs at the Mayor’s office of Bogotá.
[[{"fid":"14361","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Fermin","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Fermin","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"376","width":"376","class":"media-element file-small media-wysiwyg-align-left"}}]]As Head of Innovation Service at City Council of València, Fermín Cerezo Peco finds inspiration from working in the public sector with the aim of creating value for citizens and the society: ending poverty, reducing inequalities, ensuring sustainable development, tackling climate change. Cerezo is aware it takes bringing together groups from public, private, academic, civil, and media sectors to help all of us reach a common goal for the entire planet.
[[{"fid":"12633","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"nick_kimber_350x350.jpg","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"nick_kimber_350x350.jpg","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"350","width":"350","class":"media-element file-small media-wysiwyg-align-left"}}]]
Nick is Director of Strategy and Design at the London Borough of Camden. He leads on corporate strategy and is responsible for service and policy design, taking a leading role in introducing new digital and design capability into the Council and local government more generally.
Between September 2022 and December 2021, he was the senior Council officer responsible for the Camden’s Renewal Commission, chaired by Cllr Georgia Gould and Mariana Mazzucato, which developed four community-led renewal missions which are now embedded within the Council’s strategic plan.
Nick’s interests as a policy fellow are in the operationalisation of missions in a place-based context, with a particular focus on measurement and capabilities required for implementation.