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Panel member bio: I am Cindy Frewen Wuellner FAIA, PHD, an architect, futurist, and adjunct professor at the University of Houston's Futures Studies/Forecasting masters program. My architectural firm designed sustainable, public projects and strategic plans. My current book research project considers how social media are radically transforming how we use and know cities. You can find me on linked in or twitter as @urbanverse. We seek brilliant folks to engage in lively, far-reaching conversations about how we can change our cities for the good of people and the environment - starting at the SXSW 2010.

Would be fascinating to hear this panel and how design might be used to improve health outcomes or "health sustainability". Looks great.

Official bios for the SXSW panel "Emergent Cityscapes: Designing Future Spaces for Human Development":

Susan Isaacs, M. Arch

Susan Isaacs (M.Arch) is a founding principle of Paragon Design Group (iamparagon.com), an award-winning multi-media design firm based in Savannah, Georgia. With a graduate degree in Architecture, she has focused on collaborative problem-solving with the objective of creating smart designs for evolving brands. Her firm is a key supporter of a number of non-profit organizations that work to improve the local community and tackle global challenges. These include AWOL (All Walks Of Life Inc.), an organization using creative programs to nurture at-risk and troubled youth (awolinc.org),  and CAVU, who combine the power of flight and film to educate communities and governments about environmental conservation (cavusite.org). Susan also serves on the board of The Creative Coast Alliance (thecreativecoast.org), a non-profit organization that works to create, grow and attract higher-wage jobs and knowledge-based businesses to Savannah.

Frank W. Spencer IV, MSF

Frank is a founding partner and lead consultant with KedgeForward, a foresight consulting firm that is dedicated to helping businesses, NGO's, and social agencies to develop future-fit environments of creativity, innovation, sustainable and resilient practices, aspirational road-maps, and robust strategy for the "new world" of the 21st Century! Prior to KedgeForward, Frank worked for 15 years as a leadership coach and developer with social communities and online networking initiatives, helping to create a venture community dedicated to the advancement of human development, global innovation, and entrepreneurial collaboration among non-profits and small businesses. He graduated with a Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight from Regent University, receiving the award for the ”Outstanding Graduate” from the School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, as well as being inducted into Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Currently, he is working on several framework forecasts, including mega-trends directing the future of cities, and the future of global and local food economies. Frank is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, and you can visit his website at www.forwardonline.wordpress.com

Cindy Frewen Wuellner, FAIA, PhD, LEED AP

Dr. Frewen Wuellner founded and operated an architecture firm for 20 years before merging it with another design firm in order to shift her focus to the future of cities. She teaches at the Graduate Program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston as an adjunct professor, and at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design. Her firm was recognized as the first Kansas City Woman-Owned Business of the year, and she is currently researching a book regarding the future of cities, specifically how people use cities as primarily physical space to a combination of digital and analogue experiences.

Her architectural and planning projects have been recognized for design, sustainability, and community development in civic, education, public housing, and park facilities, including the Kansas City Downtown Civic Mall Master Plan for 60 blocks of the central business district and the Civic Council’s Downtown Corridor Development Strategies which involved urban planning and economic development for 4,000 acres.
Dr. Frewen Wuellner is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects and a Distinguished Alumna for the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design. She sits on the board of the University of Kansas School of Architecture, chairs the Kansas City Design Center, co-founded the Kansas City Architectural Foundation’s Scholarship Fund, has served on over thirty boards and committees, and is a member of numerous architectural, planning, communication, business, and forecasting organizations.

Mike Morrell

A founding partner and consultant with KedgeForward, Mike is a Graduate Fellow in Emergent Studies, Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight program at Regent University, and a member of the Association of Professional Futurists. Mike has six years experience in the publishing industry, working in editorial, marketing and consulting capacities for ABA and CBA publishers including Random House, HarperOne, Tyndale and Zondervan. He is an editor with TheOoze.com and founder of the popular ‘alternative Christian’ web directory www.zoecarnate.com. Mike’s passion lies in the intersection of media and sustainable futures, creating usable futures to function resiliently in a generative economy.

Love the range of people on this panel. Look's like they have a broad grasp of the world we are designing for.

Am keen to see if there can be cities without slums/informal settlements? If there can ever be a world without poor, sick, etc.? Don't the rich and poor need each other? My hope is for answers from this panel, of course! (Methinks its gonna just raise more questions though!) :-) Looking forward to it....

Thanks to everyone that is voting for the panel, much appreciated! We would love the opportunity to present our collective and collaborative ideas from the diverse backgrounds we inhabit, and be able to discuss these issues with others at SXSW 2010.

As someone with a background in complexity studies and systems thinking, I do agree that we will always be dealing with further questions: What technology do we employ that is safe for humanity's evolution and ethics? How will different cultures understand and utilize future architectural ideas? Are we learning how to form collective living spaces from the concept of "biomimicry?" What happens when the "haves" and "have-nots" have equal access to the ubiquitous net? What is the definition of "transformative" in different global settings? Will we create spaces that actually decrese crime, poverty, and sickness? The list can go on.

What we want to present is the thinking (and physical pathways) to developmental cities, creating an environment that is conducive to continually solving these problems as we engage in intentional evolution of the human condition. The bottom line is that we all need each other, and we must grasp this in order to form "living spaces" that promote universal health, equity, environmental concern, educational opportunity, creativity, generative food economies, transformative living conditions, etc. I hope we get the opportunity to discuss the trends and emerging ideas forming around these issues with the SXSW community - vote us in!

These are the right people to explore our cities of the future, and, in fact, to help create them. Not to be missed!

I agree completely with John Mahaffie - there are the right people to be exploring the futyre...and to pioneer paths for creating it. They will offer perspectives informed by a variety of both current and future-focused disciplines...and they have the brains, hearts, and vision to carry it out!

Great, I'm looking forward to attending this panel and understanding the levels of visualization that is needed to get buy-in across the board.

Kate
Leveraging Animation in Communicating the User Experience
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4370

Cityscaping, city living, architectures for moods and humanity's well being. Love architecture topics and this is one powerful team to deliver it.

Here's a great article that The Creative Coast Alliance wrote on our SXSW 2010 proposal:

http://blog.thecreativecoast.org/vote-now-savannah-peeps-compete-on-a-national-stage-at-sxsw/2009/08/31