Ricky Burdett's Keynote | Norman Foster Institute 2024 Commencement Ceremony

Описание: On November 8th 2024, the Norman Foster Foundation celebrated the Commencement Ceremony for the first academic year of the Master of Sustainable Cities, organised by the Norman Foster Institute in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

The 2024 students presented the final results of the projects for the three pilot cities of the Master Bilbao, Athens and San Marino.

The Commencement Ceremony was moderated by Tim Stonor, Advisory Board Member, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain; Managing Director, Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom, and included the participation of:

Norman Foster, Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute; President, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Kent Larson, Co-Director, Norman Foster Institute, Madrid, Spain; Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab City Science Research Group, Cambridge, MA, United States
Edgar Pieterse, Provost, Norman Foster Institute, Madrid, Spain; Founding Director, African Centre for Cities (ACC), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Ricky Burdett, Advisory Board Member, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain; Director and Professor of Urban Studies, LSE Cities and Urban Age Programme, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

With this first graduating cohort, the Norman Foster Institute and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid reaffirm their commitment to train future civic leaders capable of facing the urban challenges of the twenty-first century.