Indian Urban Futures V: Building on Success? A symposium hosted online by the Urban Design Group.

00:00:00 - Introduction by the meeting Chair, David Rudlin, Director of Urban Design, BDP
00:02:36 - Introduction. Dr Nicholas Falk, Executive Director, The URBED Trust.
00:06:38 - Maxine Relton, Artist and tour leader. An introduction to SCAD and short film.
00:13:12 - A short film about SCAD Nirman (Social Change and Development) by the Nirman Trust
00:20:44 - Amirthan Christy Charles, Programme Director SCAD Nirman.
00:37:36 - Some questions and answers.
00:48:43 - Sowmya Parthasarathy, Director, Urban Design and Masterplanning, Arup.
Cities alive: Rethinking cities in arid environments.
01:03:23 - Brian Q Love, Chief Executive, Connected Cities
01:19:17 - David Milner, Project Director and Urban Designer, Create Streets, asks ‘What is (probably) the best way to build for the long term’
01:35:20 - Savini Rajapakse, Urban Designer, the projects team with the Princes Foundation
01:46:56 - Roxana Slavcheva, Global Lead, Connected Places Catapult. Pilots and Partnerships, UK-India
02:03:36 - Questions and answers.
02:18:12 - Concluding observations from David Rudlin and Nicholas Falk.
'As India becomes the world’s most populated and fastest growing country how can mid-sized cities with limited planning capacity respond to climate change, and learn from experience elsewhere ? The symposium builds on the first four Indian Urban Futures events which started in 2017, and explores the challenges of scaling-up innovation with leading experts.
SCAD (Social Change and Development) www.scad.org.in
SCAD is a group of social enterprises that works with 600 villages and 4,000 women’s groups to ‘reach the unreached’ in the state of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. It runs colleges that train graduates in engineering and business, schools and other social enterprises including a hospital.
In September 2020, SCAD with the help of the URBED Trust, completed a pilot eco-house on their Cheranmadhevi Campus near Tirunelveli, which won the Indian Green Building Council’s Platinum Award. The next step was to set up Gardens of Delight, a centre for sustainable development inspired by CAT (the Centre for Alternative Technology in mid-Wales). CAT is running an experimental course in May to help the centre expand its role.
Indian Urban Futures www.urbedtrust.org
The URBED Trust has run four successful Indian Urban Futures events with partners including the Urban Design Group, the Bristol Housing Festival, universities in Chennai and Tirunelveli, and Buro Happold. The first was in 2017. Reports can be found under Smarter Urbanisation on www.urbedtrust.org'
© The Urban Design Group, The URBED Trust, SCAD.