July 19-21, 2013
Hilton Chicago Hotel
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Preconference Courses: July 18-19, 2013
Professional Members’ Forum: July 22, 2013

Power of Campuses in a Digital World

Cindy Frewen is board chair of APF, architect, founder of Frewen Architects, and adjunct professor of strategic foresight at University of Houston Futures Studies graduate program, Leawood, Kansas, USA

David Broz is education and culture practice leader for Gensler, a global architecture and planning firm. He has led the design of 200 education projects and has written and presented extensively on the future of the university campus, Chicago, Illinois, USA

If the twentieth-century campus was a pastoral college town, the twenty-first is located in the urban core, a hybrid of real and digital worlds. The vertical campus engages communities, generates economic prosperity, and becomes a central element of thriving cities. The vertical campus is very different than its rural counterpart. The urban college's campus is the city street. The urban fabric defines and connects the isolated high-rises. Twenty-second-century campuses will become incubators of innovation and learning by doing.

Emerging futures can be found globally in design build, well-being, and governance models that integrate education, work, and lifestyles.