How cities become resource efficient

TEDxHamburg wants to explore new territories. That means that we want to take you on a journey with us to explore insights in the latest developments and future trends in different areas of social life and scientific advancement. This conference will be about unexpected discoveries and disruptive innovations that will change our thinking and living and will show the multiple ways how culture, art, economy and science are deeply entangled and interact today to change our living conditions in the future. This interaction suddenly creates new questions, disciplines, territories, a new consciousness that we didn't have before. Exploring new territories means to widen our horizon, to ask questions we didn't ask before, to give unexpected and surprising answers. Let's check out the terra incognito of our world today!

Ana Pereira Roders

Ana Pereira Roders is a theoretical architect working at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, law, environmental management and computer sciences. She wants to rewrite urban theory, to reveal how efficiently cities can use their resources, in relation to standards and values. Her latest work uses UNESCO World Heritage nominations in urban settings, to discuss impact evaluation of policies and projects, based on their conservation status. Protected Urban Planet is a step towards more ambitious goals, enabling real-time big data analytics and co-authorship of urban theory. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, and the founding co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Emerald, UK.