042I_Professor Mark Burry, the founding director of the Smart Cities Research Institute and Professor of Urban Futures at Swinburne University of Technology

Interview with Professor Mark Burry, the founding director or the Smart Cities Research Institute and Professor of Urban Futures at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban citizen engagement, collaboration across disciplines, and many more.  Mark Burry is the Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology’s ‘Smart Cities Research Institute’, an appointment he took up in May 2017. His role is to lead the development of a whole-of-university research approach to helping ensure that our future cities anticipate and meet the needs of all – engaged smart citizens for engaging smart cities. Mark is also a practising architect who has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring ‘challenging’ architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He has been Senior Architect to the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation since 1979, pioneering distant collaboration with his colleagues based on-site in Barcelona. In 2001 Mark founded the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University before establishing the Design Research Institute (DRI) in 2008. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2014 as Professor of Urban Futures at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning where he helped develop the Faculty’s capacity to consolidate research in urban futures, drawing together and augmenting expertise in urban visualisation, urban analytics, and urban policy. You can find out more about Mark through these links: Mark Burry on LinkedIn @mcb_4 as Mark Burry on Twitter Mark Burry at Swinburne University of Technology Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology Mark Burry website Sagrada Familia website What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on twitter @WTF4Cities! I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay