Resilience: Investing in Youth, Disruptive Learning Environments
Last week was “resilience” week in my life. Tuesday night we were at Robson Square for “Community-based Resilience: Front-Line Storiesfrom US & Canada. We were fortunate to have Mary Rowe visiting from the Municipal Arts Society of New York (MASNY). I called Mary the “doyenne of resilience” — she has taken MASNY from being simply […]
Dublin House. Pivot Dublin. CreativeD.
We spent our final Leadings Cities day in Dublin at Dublin City Hall — finding out about all their initiatives which focus on two pillars: smart, digital, green leisure, tourism, culture We are very fortunate to have a wonderful point person form the City of Dublin on Leading Cities — Jamie Cudden. He is now […]
Leading Cities: Day 2 Dublin: Science Gallery, Digital Hub, Guinness
Forgot to mention in the last post that on Day 1 we met Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny at the “Dail” — their parliament. We also stuck our noses into their version of House of Commons & Senate. Interesting to listen to the discussion. At the time, the hot news was the “Anglo-Irish Bank Tapes” […]
Leading Cities Summit: Day 1 Dublin
The World Class Cities Partnership is re-branding. Hurrah! We are now “Leading Cities” — and now we need a tag-line. But more importantly, we just met in Dublin for 3 days. There were representatives from the following Cities (from universities and from the Cities themselves — often Deputy Mayors or Councillors). The cities represented this […]