Carlos Cruz-Diez

Artist

Carlos Cruz-Diez is a visual artist. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, he has lived and worked in Paris since 1960.

5pm - 6pm

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NYU Shanghai

Sustainable Development Conference

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April
 
16
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Clear your calendar - It's going down! You're invited to take part in the festivities. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

"Sustainable Development is the pathway to the future we want for all" 

                                                                                                  Ban Ki-moon

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.

Speakers

Richard Brubaker

Managing Director, Collective Responsibility

Driven by the belief that change begins with a single step, Richard Brubaker has spent the last 15 years in Asia working to engage, inspire and equip those around him to take their first step.

Christian Grewell

Adjunct Assistant Arts Professor, NYU Shanghai

Grewell spends his brainpower exploring the intersections of management, creativity, art and technology, while doing project management, making virtual reality games and environments, and designing a course to help students build valuable products to make the world a better place. 

Bunny Yan

Co-Founder and CEO, The Squirrelz

In a country where mass-production is king, Yan stands out with her devotion to upcycling; the concept of remaking, reinterpreting, and re-imagining unwanted materials into something new, fresh and unexpected.

Jeni Saeyang

Founder and CEO, Eco&More

As a result of being alarmed at the number of harmful chemicals found in everyday household products, Jeni dedicated herself to making China a greener place by using the finest plant-based ingredients in products for home, baby and personal care.

Martin Nexo

General Manager, Nosh Delivery

Through project collaborations such as sustainable rice transition with Good Earth Project, Ride for life with Fairmont Group, Bellis Farm organic yoghurt, ECO50 transition with Nosh Delivery and many others, Martin supports the transition towards a sustainable ecological balance.

Shirley Dong

Associate and Architect, DEDODESIGN

Dong explores the relationship between ecologies and technologies, and is committed to implementing new forms of urbanism in Shanghai, currently focused on urban farming.

Rebecca Center

Assistant Coordinator, The Million Tree Project

Center is the Assistant Coordinator for The Million Tree Project of Shanghai Shoots & Roots, and the coordinator of the International School events pertaining to the project.

Dawn McGregor

Network and Analysis Manager, China Water Risk

Coming from a background of analysing and mitigating non-financial risk in Asia Pacific, including crisis management, business resiliency and geo-political risk assessment, McGregor now continues her work with a new focus of China and water.

Daniel Guttmen

Visiting Professor, NYU Shanghai

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.

Rodrigo Zeidan

Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, NYU Shanghai

Zeidan has significant teaching experience at all levels from undergraduate to international MBAs in South America, Europe, and Asia. His research interests are diverse, and he has published in many fields in Economics and Finance.

Xingyu Wang

Assistant Professor of Practice of Physics, NYU Shanghai

Wang is a member of the American Chemical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences, and published her research in Chemical Physics Letters, the Journal of Physical Chemistry, and the Journal of Molecular Modeling.


Daniel Mikesell

Assistant Arts Professor, NYU Shanghai

Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, Mikesell received several honors including: World Class University Grant professor, Founder of HackerSpace Seoul, Korean Foundation for Science and Creativity grant for artwork using recombinant DNA as an imaging tool.

Kat Austen

Artist

Austen is interested in many phenomena, how things are connected, and why they are connected. In her life so far she has been a scientist, an artist, a journalist and a writer. She welcomes a humane and environmentally kind future.

A Flourishing Void, Exhibition by Song Dong

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.

Farmers' Market and Eco-Fair

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.

Schedule

09:30 – 10:00

Reception and Networking

2nd Floor

 

The day we've all been waiting for

Mike Zoppo is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Mike have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Credits:

10:00 – 10:10

Opening Remarks

Nofar Hamrany- President of Green Shanghai

10:10 - 11:00

The Power of One Person to Change the World

Richard Brubaker- Managing Director of Collective Responsibility

11:00 - 12:00

Panel: Green Careers

Bunny Yan- Co-Founder and CEO of The Squirrelz

Jeni Saeyang- Founder and CEO of Eco&More

Martin Nexo- General Manager of Nosh Delivery

Shirley Dong- Architect and Associate of DEDODESIGN 

Moderator: Christian Grewell- Adjunct Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Shanghai

12:00 - 12:30

Edible Cities

Shirley Dong- Architect and Associate of DEDODESIGN

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch and Networking Break

15th Floor, Colloquium

13:30 – 14:00

The Million Tree Project: Fighting Desertification in Inner Mongolia

Rebecca Center- Assistant Coordinator of Shanghai Shoots & Roots

14:00 - 14:30

Water Risks

Dawn McGregor- Network and Analysis Manager of China Water Risk

14:30 - 15:20

Panel: What should we focus on?

Rodrigo Zeidan- Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at NYU Shanghai

Xingyu Wang- Assistant Professor of Practice of Physics at NYU Shanghai

Daniel Mikesell- Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Shanghai

Moderator: Daniel Guttman- Visiting Associate Professor at NYU Shanghai

15:20 - 15:50

Art as a Mode of Connecting with the Environment

Kat Austen- Artist

15:50 - 16:00

Closing Remarks

Nofar Hamrany- President of Green Shanghai

16:00 – 16:30

Experience Kat Austen's Coral Empathy Device

9th Floor, Room 900

16:30 - 18:00

Art Gala and Networking: A Flourishing Void Exhibition

Song Dong Exhibition, Gallery Room 100

The 2016 Sustainable Development Conference will take place in the NYU Shanghai campus, which is conveniently located in the heart of Pudong, Shanghai. Sign in at the registration desk and head up to the auditorium on the second floor.

About NYU Shanghai

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.  

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