Day 1 was a workshop day. I participated in one facilitated by Dave Cockbane, a Prof from Stanford, and Nicolas Nova. Subject was “Designing the Future Cities”.

It was quite fascinating, and I learned some new tools for thinking through really hard, new problems, and I can use on this blog.

Themes that came out in the workshop regarding future cities;

– Population Density
– Virtual reality
– Integration of virtual and real in peoples lives
– Population aging
– Population Diversity
– Co-working
– Virtual ownership/ renting everything
– Fee based lifestyle

Highly thought proving day. The evolution of second life to compensate for otherwise gaps in personal lives was especially interesting.