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The purpose of the Center/Network is to gain a greater understanding of the complexity of contemporary life by creating generative portals (symposia, exhibitions, training programs, fellowships, internships, workshops, and publications) through which individuals and organizations connect with others addressing the interrelated issues of economies, ecologies, society and city building.

• Roberta Brandes Gratz, author, lecturer, award-winning journalist, civic activist and current NYC Landmarks Commissioner;
• Stephen Goldsmith, artist, activist, founder of Artspace in Salt Lake City, former Director of Planning for Salt Lake City, Associate Professor College of Architecture and Planning, University of Utah;
• Ron Shiffman, former director of the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development;
• Samina Quraeshi, former Henry R. Luce Professor in Family and Community at the University of Miami, and past Director of the Design Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts;
• Margaret Zeidler, Developer and activist, Toronto, Canada;
• Richard Rabinowitz, Historian, American History Workshop, New York, New York;
• Jonathan Levin, Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of Literature and Culture at Purchase College, State University of New York;
• Mary Rowe, Vice President for Urban Initiatives, blue moon fund, Charlottesville, Virginia.

For inquiries and more information, please contact Stephen Goldsmith.