2013 marked the Centennial of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Berkeley (http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/landscape-architecture-environmental-planning/about-us/the-next-100-years). The Department took the opportunity to not only look back on the last 100 years but also to look towards its future with a series of events. One such event was the Adaptive Metropolis conference from September 27-29, 2013 (http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/adaptivemetropolis/site/the-event/speakers/). The Symposium examined at the power of emergent collaborative networks to reaffirm the ""right to the city."" They employ a series of disparate tactics, compensating for the shortage of economic resources with a large dose of creativity. They favor short-term small-scale interventions that involve experimentation, formative assessment, and iteration, crowdsourcing ideas and funding, opensourcing processes and results, and directly engaging the community throughout implementation. While these practices have already largely garnered the attention of the web and the press, the symposium allowed for a substantive assessment of their real impact on the built environment and their potential for the next era of urban development. Keynote Speech: Alfredo Brillembourg Chair of Architecture & Urban Design, Swiss Institute of Technology; Founding Partner of Urban-Think Tank In 1993, Alfredo Brillembourg founded the Caracas, Venezuela--based Urban Think Tank, an independent nonprofit group focused on the research and practice of architecture. Alfredo, has lectured on architecture at GSD, AEDES in Berlin, UCV in Caracas, UMSA in Miami, Berlage in Rotterdam, FAU in Sao Paulo, and UCLA in Los Angeles. Since May 2010, he has held the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH) Zürich in Switzerland.

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