Sustainable Supercity
Associate Professor Charles Walker, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
Sustainable Supercity is a cross-disciplinary umbrella project that allows educational
institutions to simultaneously draw upon, critique and contribute to the current
Auckland “supercity” debate. What is at stake in this evolving discourse is the equity
and sustainability of any political, cultural, environmental or economic agenda.
Sustainable Supercity seeks to build a collaborative, networked and place-based
community - of researchers, students, practitioners, technology developers, local
bodies, entrepreneurs and visionaries – to imagine, s(t)imulate, transform and design
alternative sustainable futures for the Pacific city. The project recognizes that such
an objective must always also be idealistic in terms of sustainable design, cultural
engagement and technological innovation.This project has received funding from
DCT Creative Industries Research Institute to support a Masters-level exploration of
emerging issues for a future urban ecology.
Sustainability Research Cluster ‘Snapshots’ Presentations. Monday 10 August 2009, WF710
