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Saturday, October 18th

8:00 AM REGISTRATION (Refreshments served)

MAXX Hotel Sanssouci, Allee nach Sanssouci 1, Potsdam 

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9:00 AM PLENARY FIVE (MAXX II)

A Global Network for Public Space and Livable Cities:

   Collaborations and Next Steps

9:00 AM The Work of the Congress for the New Urbanism

Mallory Baches, President, Congress for the New Urbanism

9:30 AM The Work of UN-Habitat

Dyfed Aubrey, Chief, UN-Habitat Office for Europe and European Institutions

10:00 AM The Work of the King's Foundation

Ben Bolgar, Executive Director of Projects, The King's Foundation

10:30 AM The Work of Educational Institutions

Markus Tubbesing, Professor, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and Notre Dame

 

11:00 AM BREAK (Coffee, tea, snacks)

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11:30 AM

PLENARY SIX (MAXX II)

Still Getting it Wrong: The Perpetuation of Unsustainable Practices11:300 AM Biometric 11:30 AM Readouts of  Emotional Reactions to Buildings:

Emerging Research and Implications

Alexandros Lavdas, Researcher, EURAC Bolzano

12:00 PM Residential Towers and Condominium Tenure: An Unhappy Marriage

   and Its Consequences

Rachelle Alterman, Emeritus Professor of Planning and Law, The Technion, Haifa, Israel

   and Visiting Scholar, Touro Law School, NY

12:30 PM Panel and Video

(With Justin Hollander, Tufts University, and Cleo Valentine, University of Cambridge;

panel with Alexandros Lavdas and Michael Mehaffy)

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1:00 PM LUNCH BREAK

 

2:30 PM

PLENARY SEVEN (MAXX II)

Report-back by breakout rapporteurs

 

3:45 PM

BREAK (Coffee, tea, snacks)

 

4:15 PM

PLENARY EIGHT (MAXX II)

Final Discussion and Declaration Document

 

5:30 PM

End; Start of Closing Reception

 

 

Sunday, October 19th 

10:00 AM Walking tour of Central Potsdam, Reconstructions and New Buildings

Gather in front of MAXX Hotel Sanssouci

Led by Saskia Hüneke, Chair of the Main Committee of the Potsdam City Council

   Markus Tubbesing, Professor, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and Notre Dame

   and Bart Urban, Deputy Chair of INTBAU Germany, and Co-Host, The Aesthetic City

12:00 PM

Lunch stop (on your own)

3:00 PM End