Transformative Technology Conference
Keynote at the Transformative Technology Conference on Nov 15-16, 2019, in Palo Alto, CA.
It's the only conference focused on technology for mental health, emotional wellbeing, and human flourishing.
Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about human flourishing?
Future cities will reshape human potential in countless ways. Novel strategies and models are required for future urban spaces to properly respond to human evolution, environmental conditions, and social dynamics. Transforming technologies will play an important role in making cities more livable by addressing current emotional challenges and empowering mental health.
Transforming cities aim at improving wellbeing across societies through purposefully designed urban innovations that successfully blend technological advancements with human nature.
To achieve that, a science-driven Transforming Framework has been developed at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Media Lab) to equip practitioners and designers of technology to create urban innovations that last.
Lunch Table Discussion
Transforming Cities successfully blend technological innovations with human nature to empower positive transformations at scale.
Thesis
Properly designed cities have the greatest potential to expand human potential and facilitate human flourishing. A wiser combination city planning, urban design, wellbeing, and technology can bring higher levels of flourishing to cities.
Opportunity
By 2030, 60% of the world’s population will live in cities. The wellbeing of these cities will have an outsized impact on society and the environment. Future cities shall deploy technological innovations that are interactive, unobtrusive, intelligent, replicable, sustainable, and transforming by nature. They also must address mood, emotions, and psychological state in a moment of time, and wellbeing assessment over time.
Aims
Societal wellbeing, communal flourishing, human potential and possibility, happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, close social relationships, balanced prosperity.
Questions
What is the main purpose of a Transforming City?
What would it take for a city to become transforming?
What would it take for a city to enable flourishing?
What would it need to measure?
What would it need to understand?
What would it need to do?
What constraints would need to be in place for privacy, ethics, and data sovereignty?
What current constraints have to be removed?
What are the biggest barriers for Transforming Cities?
What opportunities could it create?