Held at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park
Tickets $100, MCA members $75; Available at the Harris Theater Box Office at 312.334.7777

This fall, the MCA and the City of Chicago Department of the Environment are presenting a one-day symposium to chart the impact of urban life around the globe. Massive Change and the City: Global Visionaries Symposium is an opportunity to meet some of the major changemakers featured in the exhibition Massive Change: The Future of Global Design.

Co-moderated by Bruce Mau, curator of the Massive Change exhibition, and John Callaway, host of WTTW's Friday Night and the Chicago Stories anthology series, the symposium includes conversations by global visionaries including Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates Wikipedia; Gregg Easterbrook, senior editor of The New Republic and author of The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse; Dayna Baumeister, cofounder of the Biomimicry Guild; Stewart Brand, futurist and author of the Whole Earth Catalog, The Clock of the Long Now, and How Buildings Learn; Mary Czerwinski, cognitive psychologist and principal researcher at Microsoft; Hazel Henderson, futurist, evolutionary economist, and syndicated columnist; Gunter Pauli, founder and director of Zero Emissions Research Initiative of the United Nations University in Tokyo; Reginald R. Modlin, Director of Environmental Affairs for DaimlerChrylser Corporation; and John Todd, biologist and leader in the field of ecological design. Mayor Richard M. Daley will present each speaker with a City of Chicago Global Visionaries Award during the symposium.

Symposium Schedule

10 am: Welcome by Robert Fitzpatrick, Pritzker Director of the MCA

10:05 am: Awards Ceremony with Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago

10:15 am: Introduction by Bruce Mau

10:20 am: Urbanization with Stewart Brand and Bruce Mau

11:20 am: Break 

11:30 am: Energy with Gunter Pauli, Reginald Modlin, and Bruce Mau

12:30 pm: Lunch 

2 pm: Evolution with John Todd, Dayna Baumeister, and Bruce Mau

3 pm: Break

3:15 pm: Information with Mary Czerwinski, Jimmy Wales, and John Callaway

4:15 pm: Break

4:30 pm: Wealth and Politics with Hazel Henderson, Gregg Easterbrook, and John Callaway