Speakers
Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí
Rector General No. 50. Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí is a full-time professor, with a PRODEP profile at the University of Guadalajara. He is a Lawyer and Master in Law, with a specialty in Administration of Justice and Public Security from the university itself. He obtained a Master's degree in Educational Technology from the University of Salamanca, Spain.
Lord Norman Foster
Norman Foster is the founder and executive chairman of Foster + Partners, a global studio for architecture, urbanism and design, rooted in sustainability. His projects include the Reichstag in Berlin, the Great Court of the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, airports in Hong Kong and Beijing and headquarters buildings for Hearst (New York), Apple (Cupertino), Bloomberg (London), Comcast (Philadelphia) and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (Hong Kong). Current research projects, in association with The European Space Agency and NASA, are exploring solutions for the creation of habitations on the Moon and Mars. He is president of the Norman Foster Foundation, based in Madrid with a global reach, promoting interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists anticipate the future. He became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999. In 1997, he was appointed to the Order of Merit and in 1999 was granted a Life Peerage in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, taking the title of Lord Foster of Thames Bank. His passions include cross-country skiing, cycling and aviation.
PC: Frederic Aranda
Eduardo López Moreno
Eduardo Moreno is Head of Knowledge and Innovation at UN-Habitat headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and Director Interim for Mexico and Cuba country office. Prior, he was the Chief of the Global Urban Observatory from (2002-2008) and Senior Technical Adviser in the Bureau of Africa and the Arab States, UN-Habitat (1999- 2002). He has over 35 years of academic and professional experience in housing and urban development policies, policy evaluation, institutional analysis, global monitoring, and equity and urban poverty issues. His qualifications include a Ph.D. in urban geography and a master’s degree in urban sociology from the University of Paris III-Sorbonne.
Vinicius M. Netto
Vinicius is the Director of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. He has a PhD in Advanced Architectural Studies (The Bartlett, University College London | UCL).
Visiting scholar at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP NYU, 2019-2020).
Vinicius is the author of The Social Fabric of Cities (Routledge, 2017). And over 90 articles and book chapters. His work is centered on urban performance, sustainability and cities as networks of information, cooperation and segregation.
Sandy Pentland
Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.
Mayra Gamboa
Mayra Gamboa is a Professor at the University of Guadalajara and leads the initiative of the City Science lab@Guadalajara. She has a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and has been a consultant of the UN-Habitat office in Mexico. She has worked in both public and private sectors and her areas of research focus on understanding the dynamics of informal growth and urban inequality, design of public spaces, and daily mobility.
Eva
Eva, la Barbie del Centinela, is a community leader and former president of Lomas del Centinela in Guadalajara, Mexico. Eva often works with a local non-profit called Circulo de Amigos which aims to promote social, cultural, urban and recreational development. She is also a creative seamstress and dreams to become a fashion designer. Eva cares deeply for her community and she strives to provide access and opportunities to Lomas inhabitants. Eva is featured in the City Science exhibit for the Venice Biennale which is titled With(in).
Kent Larson
Kent Larson directs the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on developing urban interventions that enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance districts in cities. To that end, his projects include advanced simulation and augmented reality for urban design, transformable micro-housing for millennials, mobility-on-demand systems that create alternatives to private automobiles, and Urban Living Lab deployments in Hamburg, Andorra, Taipei, and Boston.
Maria Salguero
Bañuelos
Maria is a feminist, researcher, data expert, and activist. She studied geophysics at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City and in 2013, she created a hemerographic document known as the Map of the Disappeared, a collaborative project with other Mexican researchers and activists. In 2016 she started the Map of Femicides in Mexico, a map and dataset of femicides throughout the county. The map made by Salguero has been recognized by the UN Women and the Senate of the Republic and it has become a journalistic and investigative tool for many researchers. She has also been included in El Universal’s list of women leaders in Mexico and she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in Mexico by Forbes Magazine for two consecutive years.
Gabriela Bila Advincula
Gabriela Bílá is an architect, multimedia designer and artist born in Brasília, Brazil. She uses discussions over the contemporary city as the raw material of her work, combining new media and tangible interfaces to reimagine cities.
Gabriela is currently enrolled as graduate researcher at the City Science group. Prior to joining MIT, she used to work on interactive exhibitions for science communication.
Eduardo Santana
Eduardo Santana is the Director of Environmental Science Museum at University Cultural Center of University of Guadalajara (UdeG). He is Professor and Researcher at Manantlán Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation. He has a double PhD in Forest Science and Wildlife Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He has participated in directive and advisory bodies of Global Health Institute at University of Wisconsin-Madison (where he is Visiting Professor), Society for Conservation Biology, Association for Tropical Biology, and Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
Frida Escobedo
Frida Escobedo is the founder of an architecture studio in her name, based in Mexico City. Her work explores architecture and design through social, economic and political phenomena challenging the traditional limits of the architectural discipline. Throughout different scales, the architectural elements act as tools for negotiation and consensus. In addition to her RIBA International Fellowship, her work has been widely recognized and received many international awards. In addition, she is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has also taught at Columbia University; the Architectural Association, UC Berkeley and Rice University.
Mario Silva
Mario Silva has more than 15 years of experience in sustainable mobility and public transportation policies, as an activist, professor, consultant, academic and now as a policy maker. He has a degree in International Relations from ITESO, a master's degree in Government, State and Municipal Public Administration from the Jalisco College and a PhD in Education from La Salle Costa Rica University. He served as Director of Mobility and Transport in the Government of Guadalajara from 2015 to 2017. He currently serves as General Director of the Metropolitan Institute of Planning and Development Management of the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (IMEPLAN).
Nada AlShazly
Nada is Managing Director at the Dawar Kitchen in Cairo. The Kitchen is a social enterprise located in Ezbet Khairallah, one of Cairo’s largest informal settlements. Through catering and other forms of food production, they provide dignified employment and vocational training for migrant, refugee and Egyptian and Syrian refugees women.
Hashim Sarkis
Hashim Sarkis was appointed Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning in January of 2015. Prior to that he was at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) as the The Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. In addition to professorships at Harvard University and MIT, Dean Sarkis has held numerous visiting appointments around the world including the American University of Beirut and the Metropolis Program in Barcelona.
In addition to his academic work, Dean Sarkis is principal architect in the Cambridge and Beirut based firm, HashimSarkis Studios, founded in 1998.
PC: Bryce Vickmark
Dina Buchbinder
Dina is a social entrepreneur passionate about children and their potential. In 2007, she founded Education for Sharing, a cutting-edge, action-oriented, international organization that forms better global citizens using the power of play.
Dina is an Ashoka Fellow, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a Schusterman Fellow, a Vital Voices Lead Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.
She is also a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in Urban Planning at MIT, and holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School.
Rodrigo Canales
Rodrigo researches the intersection of organizational theory and institutional theory, with a special interest in the role of institutions for economic development. Rodrigo studies how individuals are affected by and in turn purposefully change complex organizations or systems. Rodrigo has done work in entrepreneurial finance and microfinance, as well as in the institutional implications of the Mexican war on drugs. His current research is divided in three streams. The first focuses on the structural determinants of the quality of startup employment. The second, in partnership with the Hewlett Foundation, explores the conditions under which development policies and practices are built upon and incorporate existing, rigorous evidence. The third, with generous support from the Merida Initiative, explores how to build effective, resilient, and trusted police organizations in Mexico.
Tenzin Priyadarshi
Venerable Tenzin is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a 2018 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He served as Director of ethics initiative at the MIT Media Lab and was a Director’s Fellow there. He lectures internationally on subjects ranging from philosophy, science, ethics and religion to socio-political thought.
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is the Founding President and CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a non-partisan collaborative think tank focused on interdisciplinary research and programs related to the development of human and global ethics.
Gabriela de la Torre
Gabriela de la Torre is a feminist public servant with more than 12 years of experience in public administration. She has a master's degree in Governance, Development and Public Policy from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. She is a specialist in public policy and gender, sustainable urban mobility, local governments, and metropolitan development. She is the co-founder of the feminist organization "Con Nosotras", which has worked to make political participation of women visible in decision-making spaces; and also "Mujeres en el Medio" (MEM - Women for the City) that seeks to incorporate the feminist perspective in city planning. She is currently the Research and Gender Policy Coordinator at the Metropolitan Institute of Planning and Development Management of the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (IMEPLAN).
Héctor Raúl Solís Gadea
Executive Vicepresident of University of Guadalajara. Héctor Raúl Solís is a full-time professor, with a PROMEP profile at the University of Guadalajara. He is a Philosopher and Master in Sociology from the university itself and PhD in Sociology from the New School of Social Research in New York.
Love (Mama G) Bassey
Mama G is a central figure at the Flyover Market in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Highly trusted, she coordinates a collective informal banking system that allows her to save money from the community and provide loans to the members in turns each week. She also sells her potions under the Flyover. She is the proud mother of her son, Harry. Mama G is featured in the City Science exhibit for the Venice Biennale which is titled With(in).
CSL@Taipei
at Taipei Tech. Directed by Professor Yao.
CSL@Andorra
at the Actua Foundation. Directed by Marc Pons.
CSL@Hamburg
at Hafencity University. Directed by Gesa Ziemer.
CSL@Shanghai
at Tongji University, College of Design and Innovation. Directed by Professor Yonqui Lou.
CSL@MIT
The City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. Directed by Kent Larson.
CSL@Toronto
at Ryerson University. Directed by Hossein Rahnama.
CSL@Guadalajara
at the University of Guadalajara.
Summit Team and Organizers
Mayra Gamboa
University of Guadalajara - Research Scientist and professor
Hossein Rahnama
Director - City Science Lab Toronto at Ryerson University, Founder of Flybits and Research Affiliate MIT Media Lab
Thomas Sanchez Lengeling
MIT City Science
Research Scientist
Ixchel Rowena Figueroa
University of Guadalajara - Research Assistant
Enrique Morales Bautista
University of Guadalajara - Head of Production and Special Events Unit. UdeG Culture.
Laura Ruth Morales Estrada
University of Guadalajara -Communications Coordinator
Jonathan Williams
Digital Media Consultant
Lucas Seixas
RIBS+SEIXAS
Maggie Church
MIT City Science
Program Coordinator
Luis Alonso Pastor
MIT City Science
Research Scientist
Andres Rico Medina
MIT City Science
Research Assistant
Cristina Panzarini
MIT City Science
Administration
Mónica Gómez
University of Guadalajara - Research Scientist
Miguel Sigala
University of Guadalajara - Technical Secretary of the General Academic and Innovation Coordination
Jorge Enrique Flores
Advisor for the Office of Academic Affairs at the University of Guadalajara
Pedro Ribs
RIBS+SEIXAS
Igor Lozada
University of Guadalajara - General Coordinator of Extension and Cultural Diffusion
Carlos Iván Moreno
University of Guadalajara - Academic Provost
Gabriela Bila Advincula
MIT City Science
Research Assistant
Ariel Noyman
MIT City Science
Research Assistant
David Robertson
MIT City Science Administration
Victor Ignacio Davalos Lopez
University of Guadalajara - Press Coordinator
Karla Elizabeth Rueda Vergara
Academic advisor at the Academic and Innovation Office, Universidad de Guadalajara
Omar Karim Hernández
University of Guadalajara - Head of the Curriculum Transformation Unit
Miguel Toral
Advisor for the Office of Academic Affairs at the University of Guadalajara
Alejandro Villaseñor
Video Department Manager in Social Communication at the UdeG
