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For the last IDEAS CITY Festival, which took place May 1-4, 2013, and centered on the theme of Untapped Capital, participants focused on the resources that are under-recognized or underutilized in our cities. Two hundred and forty cultural partner organizations and sixty-five thousand visitors participated over four days.

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2013 IDEAS CITY StreetFest in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Photo: Benoit Pailley

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IDEAS CITY: São Paulo, October 25–27, 2013


Paulo Mendes da Rocha is one of the world’s greatest architects. He deservedly won two of architecture’s premier honors, the Mies van der Rohe Award (2000) and the Pritzker Architecture… IDEAS CITY: São Paulo
Keynote by Paulo Mendes da Rocha
What is a city? Is it a physical place or something else? Who are its citizens? How do they connect, and how do they make decisions? What are the frustrations they experience when trying… IDEAS CITY: São Paulo
Conversation 1—Harnessing Resistance: Anger as Untapped Capital
The word “downtown” has become a metaphor for something that is problematic, challenging, inspiring, and/or tragically flawed. The downtowns of the world have been subjected to… IDEAS CITY: São Paulo
Panel 1—Whose Downtown is it?: Colonizing, Conceptualizing, Capitalizing
The word “downtown” has become a metaphor for something that is problematic, challenging, inspiring, and/or tragically flawed. The downtowns of the world have been subjected to… IDEAS CITY: São Paulo
Panel 2-Bridging Divides: People, Technology, Networks
Geography and art are important partners. Critics constantly debate the role of place in the creation of art. Is it inevitable that artists from São Paulo and Rio will have different… IDEAS CITY: São Paulo
Conversation 2—Embracing Provocation: The Arts and Shaping Identity


IDEAS CITY Festival New York, May 1–4, 2013


In the last two decades, exponential growth in various technologies—from global communications networks to fast, low-cost digital prototyping—has radically transformed everyday… IDEAS CITY NYC 2013:
Ad Hoc Strategies Panel Discussion
We produce waste. Perhaps even more importantly, we define what is waste and what is not, and we adopt practices for managing (or pushing out of sight) what we have defined. What if… IDEAS CITY NYC 2013:
Waste Panel Discussion
As world-renowned American psychologist Charles Schaefer says, “we are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at… IDEAS CITY NYC 2013:
Play Panel Discussion
“Youth,” according to Oscar Wilde, “is wasted on the young.” While this old adage remains today, it is this panel’s contention that, with proper nurture, youth has the potential… IDEAS CITY NYC 2013:
Youth Panel Discussion
The 2013 installment of IDEAS CITY was devoted to the exploration of Untapped Capital. The mayors on this panel have interpreted Untapped Capital in their own, individual ways. For… IDEAS CITY NYC 2013:
The City and Untapped Capital: Mayoral Panel


IDEAS CITY: New York, May 11, 12, 14 & 19, 2011


IDEAS CITY: Istanbul kicked off with a keynote by Amanda Burden, Commissioner of the NYC Department of City Planning. Under the Bloomberg administration, Commissioner Burden has spearheaded… IDEAS CITY: Istanbul 2012:
Amanda Burden Keynote Address
The inaugural IDEAS CITY Global Conference was held in Istanbul in October 2012, exploring the topic of Untapped Capital. Read more: ideas-city.org/global/view/istanbul IDEAS CITY: Istanbul 2012:
Structures and Networks Panel Discussion
The inaugural IDEAS CITY Global Conference was held in Istanbul in October 2012, exploring the topic of Untapped Capital. Read more: ideas-city.org/global/view/istanbul IDEAS CITY: Istanbul 2012:
Collaboration and Exchange Panel Discussion


IDEAS CITY Festival: New York, May 4–8, 2011


This excerpt from Antanas Mockus keynote address focuses on his creative approaches to solve municipal problems, which ultimately brought Bogota, Colombia back from the brink. Former… IDEAS CITY NYC 2011:
Keynote Highlights: Antanas Mockus
Co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rem Koolhaas is one of the most influential architects and thinkers of the past three decades. IDEAS CITY NYC 2011:
Keynote Highlights: Rem Koolhaas
Author of the best-selling You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, Jaron Lanier has long been associated with Virtual Reality research and founded VPL Research, the first company to market… IDEAS CITY NYC 2011:
Keynote Address: Jaron Lanier Part 1
Author of the best-selling You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, Jaron Lanier has long been associated with Virtual Reality research and founded VPL Research, the first company to market… IDEAS CITY NYC 2011:
Keynote Address: Jaron Lanier Part 2
Author of the best-selling You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, Jaron Lanier has long been associated with Virtual Reality research and founded VPL Research, the first company to market… IDEAS CITY NYC 2011:
Keynote Address: Jaron Lanier Part 3
Author of the best-selling You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, Jaron Lanier has long been associated with Virtual Reality research and founded VPL Research, the first company to market… IDEAS CITY NYC 2011:
Keynote Address: Jaron Lanier Part 4
Author of the best-selling You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, Jaron Lanier has long been associated with Virtual Reality research and founded VPL Research, the first company to market… IDEAS CITY NYC 2011:
Keynote Address: Jaron Lanier Part 5


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2013 Team

Founding Festival Director Lisa Phillips, New Museum
Founding Festival Co-Director Karen Wong, New Museum
Festival Manager Corinne Erni, New Museum
Director of Special Projects & Curator at Large Richard Flood, New Museum
Conference organizers Richard Flood, New Museum, Lisa Phillips, New Museum, Rosalie Genevro, The Architectural League
Conference coordinators Nick Marmor, Evie Tilney
StreetFest Manager Annie Wachnicki, New Museum
StreetFest Producer Q+A Events and Production / Jody Kuh
StreetFest Task Force Aimee Good, Drawing Center; Tamara Greenfield, Fourth Street Arts Block; Cassim Shepard, The Architectural League
Festival Website Manager Ayano Elson, New Museum
Festival Fellow Erika Anderson, New Museum
Festival Intern Sarah Brown, New Museum

Special thanks to the website designers at Kettle; the creative team at Anomaly; the designers NeoNeo; Lucas Borrás, Director, and Carlota Santamaria, Creative Director, IDEAS CITY 2013 promotional video; the PR team—Andrea Schwan, Gabriel Einsohn and Hyatt Mannix, Serious Business PR; our conference logistics team from Overland and Fora.tv; and The Standard Hotel.

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