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Anders Petterson is the founder and<br />
managing director of ArtTactic Ltd, a Londonbased<br />
art market research and analysis<br />
company set up in 2001. Anders Petterson is a<br />
regular lecturer on the topic of ‘Art as an asset<br />
class’ and ‘Art market analysis’ at Sotheby’s<br />
Institute, Christie’s Education and IESA.<br />
@ArtTactic<br />
CITIES: HOW GOOD IS SMART?<br />
Ayssar Arida, Amar Bakshi, and Noah<br />
Raford in conversation with Parag Khanna<br />
HSBC's airport ads tell us: "In the future, we<br />
will be planting cities." Indeed, we already<br />
are. Dubai has declared its ambition to be the<br />
world's smartest city by 2020. Other "smart<br />
cities" are sprouting up from Masdar to South<br />
Korea's Songdo. Should more cities be smart<br />
-- in the sense of efficient and sustainable -- or<br />
are they already too smart surveillance states<br />
that homogenize society? What is the balance<br />
between culture and technology in this new<br />
global form?<br />
GLOBAL ART FORUM<br />
Ayssar Arida is an urbatect, thinker,<br />
and design entrepreneur. He runs<br />
URBATECTURE urban design thinking from<br />
Beirut and London, and advises international<br />
organizations in culture, education, urbanism<br />
and design. He co-founded toy start-up<br />
urbacraft.com in 2014. His research focuses<br />
on the dialogue between popular culture,<br />
scientific paradigms, and urban planning, first<br />
introduced in his book Quantum City.<br />
@ayssar<br />
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