Play of Light (12:30pm session): Playing With Tech, Business, Cities and Globalisation

Modern life is a torrent of change - and if we’re going to make the best of the driving forces of the age, we’ll have to respond with creativity and playfulness. These speakers point the way.

Microsoft’s Helene Steiner works on the boundary between technology and nature. She makes inert materials shimmer with information, and finds ways that plants can talk to us through light.

The creator of nation-branding, Simon Anholt - and founder of the Good Country Index - thinks we need some new ideas about world politics and economics. How can we live in a messy world with hundreds of nations,speaking thousands of languages? Seeing globalisation as a kind of“dappling” - literally, a play of light - might help us imagine it.

This session’s panel, “Remain In Light”, will investigate how light plays across the cities of the world - how it makes urban places more attractive,successful and safer. With ARUP’s Florence Lam, the LSE’s Don Slater, and Elettra Bordonaro from Light Follows Behaviour. 

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