Agenda
“Social Justice and Equity in the Engineering of Smart and Connected Cities”
–a workshop as part of the NSF-funded SCC-RCN entitled, MOHERE: Mobility, Health, and Resilience: Building Capacities and Expanding Impact
AGENDA:
Monday, December 10, 2018 – Walker-Ames Room, 225 Kane Hall, University of Washington
8:00 AM: Breakfast and Registration
8:45 AM: Welcome: Radha Poovendran, Chair, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Thaisa Way, Faculty Director, Urban@UW
9:00 AM: Keynote: Mami Hara, General Manager & CEO, Seattle Public Utilities; “Leading with Equity”
9:40 AM: Opening Panel: A City’s Equity Challenges: from Homelessness to Climate Change
- Mami Hara, General Manager and CEO, Seattle Public Utilities
- Adrienne Quinn, Former Director, King County Department of Community and Human Services; Distinguished Practitioner, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance; “Regional Approaches to Homelessness: Research Questions”
- Nicole Vallestero Keenan-Lai, Executive Director, Puget Sound Sage; “Environmental Justice and Homelessness”
- Moderator: Katharine Lusk, Initiative on Cities, Boston University
10:30 AM: Break
11:00 AM: Session One: Environment, Climate, and Equity
- Jacklin Stonewall, Iowa State University; “An Approach to Incorporating Human Behaviors, Buildings, and Near Building Climates into Decision Making to Increase Resilience Of Urban Neighborhoods”
- Dana Habeeb, Indiana University; “Sensors and Environmental Data related to heat stress”
- Neal Patwari, University of Utah; “Enabling Bottom-up Research to Increase Access to the Benefits of Smart Systems”
- Moderator: Tiernan Martin, Data Analyst and Planner, Futurewise
12:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Environmental Justice and Health
- Amanda Giang, University of British Columbia; “Reducing environmental health injustice—inequities in the distribution of environmental health harms”
- Lara Clark, University of Washington, “Environmental justice and air quality: current and historic patterns“
- Julian Marshall, University of Washington, “Environmental justice and air quality: engineering tools for evaluating policy decisions”
- Moderator: Julio Sanchez, Equity & Community Engagement Associate, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
3:00 PM: Coffee and table discussions
3:30 PM: Session Two: Mobility, Equity, and Health
- Judith G. Gonyea, Boston University; “Voices From the Streets: Older Urban Women Navigating Homelessness”
- Sarah M. Kaufman, New York University; “The Pink Tax on Transportation”
- Moderator: Benjamin de la Pena, Chief of Innovation and Strategy, Seattle DOT
5:00 PM: Day one wrap-up & report out: David Corman, Radha Poovendran, and Thaisa Way
5:30 PM: Reception and posters
6:30 PM, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering 125:
Public Lecture: Khalid Kadir, UC-Berkeley; “Whose Communities? Recentering engineering and engineers, and moving from social good to social justice”
- Welcome and Introduction: Michael Bragg, Dean, UW College of Engineering
Tuesday December 11, 2018 – Walker-Ames Room, 225 Kane Hall, University of Washington
8:00 AM: Breakfast
8:30 AM: Welcome and Overview: Thaisa Way
8:35 AM: Keynote Speaker: Anu Ramaswami, University of Minnesota; “Meta-Principles for Developing Smart, Sustainable, and Healthy Cities”
- Introduction: Sajal Das, Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor, Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology
9:20 AM: Session Three: Resilience and Equity
- Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology; “Co-Designing Equitable Internet of Things Solutions with Lifetime Communities”
- Jayant Gupta, University of Minnesota; “Spatial Data Science to Serve the Underserved”
- Matt Auflick, City of Seattle, “Resilience and Equity in Emergency Management and Outreach Planning”
- Moderator: Kate Garman, Technology Policy Advisor, City of Seattle
11:00 AM: Coffee and discussion: Research Ideas
11:15 AM: Sustainability and the Smart and Just City
- Araya Asfaw, Addis Ababa University; “Smart Meters Provide Efficient, Effective and Equitable Water and Electricity Service”
- Nilay Mistry, IIT; “The Urban Design and Policy Implications of Ubiquitous Robots”
- Moderator: Hedwig Lee, Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
12:15 PM: Lunch and Presentation
- Cathleen Power, Washington University in St. Louis; “Interdisciplinary Critical Community Engaged Learning: A Tool for Expanding the Broader Impacts of Research and Advancing High-Impact Student Learning”
1:30 PM: Wrap up/next steps: Radha Poovendran, Thaisa Way
2:00 PM: End- Thank you!
