Invitation to Sponsor - IMCL 2023
A unique opportunity to celebrate your organization, company or project at a prominent international event.
The 2023 IMCL conference in Poundbury and Dorchester, UK, will offer sponsors the option of purchasing tickets for themselves, or making them available as scholarships for qualified attendees in need of financial assistance. In addition, sponsors will be recognized with a number of benefits as described below.
There are a number of structured benefits for sponsorships at different levels, as described below. There are also potential opportunities for presentations, tours, or other features of your work, depending on its relevance to the conference. (For example, builders, developers, architects, business owners and others involved in Poundbury are warmly invited to become sponsors, and showcase their work during the conference. I will be happy to personally discuss this and other opportunities with you in more detail.)
The IMCL is a premier international leadership conference on urban quality of life since 1985, bringing together many of the world’s most innovative and successful mayors, planners, economic development specialists, designers, developers, NGO officials, and researchers and scholars. Importantly, the IMCL conferences cover not just big cities but also small towns and suburbs, since such a large percentage of the world’s inhabitants live in these areas, and they are also the location for many of the world’s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges.
Our 2023 conference is titled, “The Ecology of Place: From Knowledge to Action.” The transformation of sprawling, fragmented, dysfunctional places into livable, walkable, sustainable neighborhoods remains an urgent challenge, especially so in an age of unprecedented rapid urbanization. Our next conference will be an important in-person gathering as we emerge from the pandemic and assess the many important lessons for a time of dynamic transformation for cities, towns, suburbs and countrysides.
We’ll gather in Poundbury, UK, a fascinating laboratory of more ecological urban development, with a wide range of practices and tools to study and share. Using Poundbury as one concrete example, as well as other case studies from other parts of the world, we’ll ask, what are the effective new tools and strategies to bring positive change to suburban as well as urban areas? What are the lessons from the pandemic for healthy and inclusive cities, and especially, their public spaces? What are the barriers that Poundbury and other similar success stories faced, and how did they overcome them? (Or if they didn’t, what can we learn from those lessons too?) What are their successes and lessons learned, and what can other places learn from them?
And we’ll examine other related challenges for cities and towns today, including the crisis of affordable housing, the need for climate resilience and adaptation, promoting neighborhood health, achieving urban equity, promoting active mobility, age-friendly cities, neighborhoods for children, and much more. We’ll also consider the timeless requirements for human scale architecture and mixed-use urban fabric, for reviving city and town centers, and creating vibrant public places where people can gather for farmers markets, festivals, outdoor cafes and community social life.
We’ll hear from leading researchers about the best evidence on emerging challenges and effective methods, including financial tools, regulatory innovations, design strategies, and promising (and occasionally worrisome) new technologies. We’ll hear from practitioners on the front lines about their successes and challenges, and the latest research on effective approaches. We’ll learn the latest trends from around Europe, North America, and other parts of the world, in livable and sustainable development.
We would be honored if you would consider becoming a sponsor (and/or) attendee at this important gathering. The information below covers the sponsorship levels and benefits. For more information, please email me personally at michael.mehaffy@livablecities.org.
Sincerely,
Michael W. Mehaffy, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Suzanne C. and Henry L. Lennard Institute for Livable Cities
THE DETAILS
WHERE: Poundbury and Dorchester, UK
WHEN: October 10-13, 2023
WHAT: The International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) Conference is a venerable and prestigious annual gathering of some of the leading urban thinkers in the world today. It was founded in 1985 by Henry Lennard, a Viennese medical sociologist, and Suzanne Lennard, a British architectural scholar.
The 2023 conference will take place in the livability success story of Poundbury, UK. We'll share concrete examples of what has worked in this and other urban and suburban places, where such a high percentage of the population now lives - either by choice, by plan, or too often because they have been unwillingly displaced from gentrifying city cores. We'll examine tools and strategies that are effective in building a new generation of walkable, equitable, livable cities - AND suburbs - for all!
WHO: This conference will bring together over 100 outstanding delegates - elected officials, practitioners and scholars in planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, land use development, transportation planning, public health, human development, and social sciences from around the world - to share experiences, ideas and expertise.
WHY: At this conference, we will examine creative strategies, tools and design solutions for achieving livable cities (and suburbs, and towns) for ALL. The conference will examine timely topics like neighborhood health, social capital, green cities, affordable housing, active mobility, gentrification, displacement and homelessness, age-friendly cities, resilience and adaptation, and other related issues.
SPONSOR: Your sponsorship will emphasize your organization’s dedication to the goals of making cities and suburbs more healthy, green and livable. It will help ensure the highest quality speakers on these topics, and carry this message to a broad international audience.
By bringing together a diverse group of delegates from the planning, urban design, public health and other fields, we will increase the understanding of why it is so important to achieve livable cities and suburbs, and highlight exemplary organizations, firms, and projects worldwide that are achieving these goals.
HOW: Please contact our director, Michael Mehaffy, at michael.mehaffy@livablecities.org.
The Lennard Institute for Livable Cities, Inc., is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit public benefit corporation registered in Indiana, USA.
SPONSORSHIP LEVELS AND BENEFITS:
Amounts in USD; multiply by approx. 83% to get GBP.
As Executive Director, I would like to personally thank you for considering a sponsorship.
Our goal in the IMCL conferences is to celebrate good work that is aligned with our mission, and share the knowledge of how it has been achieved. We do this through peer-to-peer exchanges in the most instructive case-study laboratories of transformation into more livable, ecological, equitable, beautiful cities, towns, and suburbs. We welcome the opportunity to celebrate your achievements as they relate to the conference topics, and disseminate knowledge of your organization or project, as well as your lessons learned.
