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We are delighted to announce our forthcoming event on Entrepreneurship and the Development of Sustainable Smart Cities on 16th December at Dialogue Café Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro.

This will be the first of a series of intercultural meetings between Brazil and the Netherlands on the future of the city, in the light of technological developments, globalization and new opportunities to solve social, economical and environmental issues. The conversations will  take place between Dialogue Café Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro.

Future Smart Cities I
Entrepreneurship and the Development of Sustainable Smart Cities

4pm-6pm, Thursday 16th December
Doors open at 3.45 with drinks after the event from 6pm-7pm
Location: Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam/ UCAM, Rua da Assembléia, 10, Centro, Rio de Janeiro
Entrance is free/ please send an email to christine@waag.org if you want to join.

Most cities in the world are currently working on becoming more energy (and resource) efficient. On 16th December, Amsterdam Smart City, Waag Society and UCAM will be hosting an event through Dialogue Cafe between the Municipality and green entrepreneurs in Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro to exchange knowledge and experience on what is needed for cities to become smarter.

The Dialogue Café event is open to the general public - to people who want to know what cities are doing to become greener and smarter - and for government officials, grid operators and SME's that are developing products and services for Smart Cities.

For more information on Amsterdam Innovation Motor (AIM) see http://www.aimsterdam.nl/

As part of our second event on the impact of digitalization on the creative industries, we will focus on academies for art, design and media technology in Brazil and the Netherlands. What are their ideas about the impact of digitization on the creative industries? How do they prepare their students for the constantly changing professional field? What is happening in Brazil? What is happening in the Netherlands? Is there interest in experiments with new digital and online possibilities like the facilities of Dialogue Cafe, which enables us to start an intercultural/ international collaboration?


In this meeting we will explore the ways of working in Brazil and the Netherlands and look for concrete possibilities for collaboration between students and art/ design academies in Brazil and the Netherlands, using the facilities of Dialogue Cafe.

The impact of digitization on the creative industries II
Thursday 2nd December, 4pm-6pm CET at Waag Society/UCAM

Participants:

Carla Hoekendijk, founder Game Design Department HvA, school for higher education in  Amsterdam
Gabrielle Marks, graphic designer and teacher at the Art Academy in The Hague
Deanna Herst, professor at the Art Academy Willem de Kooning in Rotterdam
Robert Nelk, student Advertising Willem de Kooning academy Rotterdam
Carla Cipolla, doctorate in Design at the Politecnico di Milano and is a teacher at UFRJ / COPPE, Production Engineering Program where develops a line of research, teaching and extension on Service Design, developing as one of its main topics the new service models that emerge from the analysis of social innovation cases.