Design Trust Council members attended "Intersection of Design and Technology: Luncheon with Adam Greenfield." 

Design Trust Board member Stephen Maharam and wife Camila Pastor hosted a private luncheon with Adam Greenfield, Head of Design Direction at Nokia for the Design Trust Council in their home last week. In this intimate setting, Design Trust Council members shared lunch and conversation with Adam Greenfield, learning about the new technologies being employed in the public realm. The discussion covered how these technological advancements will influence not only urban architecture and design, but how people live and work and interact in the public realm.

"So let me restate the challenge as I see it: How do we rediscover all of those aspects and attributes that made for the high-quality urban experiences that we understood in the past and that motivated people like my heroes and heroines? But how do we do this in a way that is organic for our own age, the possibilities that arise out of the techno-social moment that we find ourselves in? I think that the amount of digital information that is present in all of our experiences in the urban context and that we are able to grab, repurpose, turn to our own ends and share with people—I think that this has a decent chance of being the answer to that question." -Adam Greenfield