2016 is a pivotal year for sustainable development, as we move towards different kinds of social and economical structures. NYU Shanghai Sustainable Development Conference aims to raise awareness for the current global environmental issues and to share information about the current environmental issues and practical, evidence-based solutions to them.
This conference provides a unique opportunity to bring together stakeholders from academia, international agencies, NGOs, and ecological businesses to share practical solutions towards the achievement of more sustainable and inclusive societies.
Join us for a day of presentations, discussions and networking with peers and industry leaders who are working for a sustainable future. In addition to the great talks, there will be an Eco-Fair, a Farmers' Market, and an Art Galla event. We’ve carefully crafted an incredible lineup of presenters who are prepared to arm you with new strategies, insights and suggestions for how you can be part of the change.
Guttman served in the Clinton administration as Executive Director of a Presidential Advisory Commission on bioethics, and as Presidentially appointed Commissioner of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. Currently, he focuses on cooperative and comparative governance, law and environment educational programs involving US and China.
The NYU Shanghai Art Gallery would like to invite you to its spring exhibition A Flourishing Void, made by reused materials ransacked from demolished buildings. The world-renowned conceptual artist, Song Dong, deals with the experience of living in modern China, the transformation of China's urban environment and the impermanence of change.
Song Dong visited the NYU Shanghai campus in February 2016 and was fascinated by our university, a cooperative experiment in international education that is situated in the heart of China’s most important financial district. He compared NYU Shanghai to a laboratory operating inside a glass box, an observation which inspired his next conceptual project. After an intense period of creative labor in his Beijing studio, Song returns to the NYU Shanghai Art Gallery with this large-scale, site-specific installation titled A Flourishing Void.
During the event, there will be a Farmers' Market, in collaboration with Fangcundi 方寸地, and an Eco-Fair, where ecological businesses will present their innovative ideas and products.
You will have the chance to check out new ecological products, talk with the companies' representatives, and buy products you are interested in.
Jointly established by New York University and East China Normal University, NYU Shanghai is the third degree-granting campus in NYU’s global network, joining NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU's campus in New York City. It is also the first Sino-US joint venture university approved by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China with independent legal person status.
NYU Shanghai combines the best of Chinese and American NYU Shanghai exemplifies the highest ideals of contemporary higher education by uniting the intellectual resources of New York University’s global network with the multidimensional richness of China. NYU Shanghai guides students toward academic and moral excellence, prepares them for leadership in all walks of life, and contributes to the endless quest for new insights into the human condition and the natural world.
About Green Shanghai
The environmental and sustainability organization of NYU Shanghai- Green Shanghai is a platform for student, faculty, and any community member to learn more about current global environmental issues and the sustainable available solutions. With events including lectures, workshops and community service, Green Shanghai raises the awareness for environmental problems and encourages its members to take an active part in creating the change they want to see.
